For those who have missed our recent local news let me state that there were 24 SUV’s stolen from the Shops at Mission Viejo between May and Nov of last year. Of that number 13 were taken in June.In my Public Comments at the Jan 15th Mission Viejo City council meeting I showed the council a city issued Press Release dated Oct 2006 in which it mentions our being ranked the safest city in CA. I also showed several pages from our city web site including an area entitled “notifications of recent crime trends in the business community.”
It is worth noting that it was not until Dec 12th that our chief of police services issued an email to the entire council and senior city staff reporting on the crime yet he failed to include any member of the print or broadcast media.
I than asked if the city council or city manager knew of the thefts prior to the issuance of the above referenced memo?
I posed this question in that three of our councilmembers boasted of our safe city ranking last fall leading up to the Nov election. What did they know? and when did they know it? remains a mystery.
Was our chief of police services negligent in failing to send out his warning for six months after June? Was his delay politically motivated?
Why didn’t anyone mention this at a city council meeting for six months?
The sad part is that not a single member of the council or city manager had any comments after my presentation nor during their final comments. They appear to simply want to sweep this chapter of our history under a rug as it does not look favorably on our reputation.
What’s your thoughts on this “silence” of those who claim that “public safety is their number one priority?”
Larry, way to keep ’em straight!
Larry:
Why would you expect our five council members to do any thing about this issue ???
Bernardi our Chief from the OCSD is a liar and the council members just want to believe his lies. He has been cooking the books since he got the job !!
Bill Arden
Mission Viejo
Frank Ury made public safety his number one priority and where has he been on this? What has he done? Nothing at all. Instead of playing his political games maybe he should step up to the plate and try to get something done. Things like this get people talking about recalling him!
Anonymous # 3. You are either a Frank hater, or you have zero confidence in the new SCE council majority ability to do anything about anything and are, therefore, placing all your faith in Frank to “get something done”.
But aside from your political allegiances, all five council members campaigned on public safety as job one; all five council members, out of selfish political motivations, voted Frank out of rotation for mayor; all five council members ignored Monday’s public questions about giving supremacy to selfish political motivations over public safety.
If you are as concerned as many of us are about why the public was kept in the dark about the 53% increase in auto thefts in our city, then please hold the council’s feet to the fire and add your voice to the growing chorus of “What did you know and when did you know it?” cathy schlicht