Mon. Dec 23rd, 2024

The Santa Ana Police Department is proud to announce the selection of our next Public Information Officer (PIO), Officer Natalie Garcia.

Officer Garcia was born in the City of Santa Ana and raised in Garden Grove, where she graduated from Pacifica High School. She attended California State University of Long Beach on an academic scholarship and earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice. Officer Garcia worked as an AVID tutor at a local middle school and coached little league soccer for AYSO.

Officer Garcia has been a police officer six years and started her career with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department as a Deputy Sheriff assigned to Central Women’s Jail.

While at Santa Ana PD, Officer Garcia has worked various assignments including patrol, the Quality of Life Team (QOLT) and most recently, was selected to be one of the first members of the newly established full-time Recruitment and Social Media Team. In this role Officer Garcia created and managed the Recruitment social media platforms.

In addition, Officer Garcia collaborated with members of the Training Division and Recruitment Team to form the first-ever SAPD Recruit Pre-Academy (RPA) Training Course. Officer Garcia is also part of our first Baker to Vegas Women’s Running Team and a SWAT Team apprentice. Officer Garcia is bilingual in the Spanish language and looks forward to furthering our Department’s communication and transparency initiatives.

Officer Garcia will officially begin her new role August 1, 2023.

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Art Pedroza Editor
Our Editor, Art Pedroza, worked at the O.C. Register and the OC Weekly and studied journalism at CSUF and UCI. He has lived in Santa Ana for over 30 years and has served on several city and county commissions. When he is not writing or editing Pedroza specializes in risk control and occupational safety. He also teaches part time at Cerritos College and CSUF. Pedroza has an MBA from Keller University.

By Art Pedroza

Our Editor, Art Pedroza, worked at the O.C. Register and the OC Weekly and studied journalism at CSUF and UCI. He has lived in Santa Ana for over 30 years and has served on several city and county commissions. When he is not writing or editing Pedroza specializes in risk control and occupational safety. He also teaches part time at Cerritos College and CSUF. Pedroza has an MBA from Keller University.

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  1. Dear Natalie Garcia,

    I am a Santa Ana resident and a teacher in SAUSD. I am a member of the teacher union, although I completely disagree with what they are doing.

    As you seek to raise money for the police in Santa Ana, you are missing the root of the problem. The root of the problem is not the lack of funding,

    although that is important. The root of the problem is that the teacher union is teaching our future leaders (CHILDREN) to hate the police through the

    books and curriculum they are bringing into our schools. This book: THE HATE U GIVE is a required reading for 9th graders in Santa Ana for Ethnic Studies under

    “Cultural Relativism” Here are excerpts from the book filled with “F*** the cops.” https://interfaith4kids.com/index.php/our-media/explicit-books-in-orange-county-schools-grades-6-12

    Here are books in our elementary schools painting cops as racist. https://booklooks.org/data/files/Book%20Looks%20Reports/S/Something%20Happened%20in%20Our%20Town.pdf

    The California Dpt of Education recommends “Advocates for Youth” to our students statewide and ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH also writes a lot of our Sex Ed curriculum. https://www.advocatesforyouth.org/resources/health-information/rights-respect-responsibility-a-k-12-sex-education-curriculum/

    Advocates for Youth RECRUITS and PAYS students to be activists to DEFUND THE POLICE. https://interfaith4kids.com/index.php/our-media/documents/public-education-trains-students-political-activism-defund-police-reinvest-funds-for-sexual-rights

    I wrote an article for the OC Register about the Teachers Union Hypocrisy because I am a former Peace Officer of Orange County. https://interfaith4kids.com/index.php/our-media/bad-teachers-are-a-bigger-threat-to-students-than-school-police

    The SAUSD board members not only are non-supportive of Police, two of them will not even say the pledge of allegiance or place their hand over their heart during flag salutes at the start of board meetings. This is Trustee Torres and Trustee Bustos. I can send you a speech given by a resident about this lack of respect shown by our SA elected Leadership.

    So money is only a surface problem… the ROOT of the problem is that the teachers union (Calif Teachers Association) and their endorsed candidates is teaching children at young ages to hate the police and to hate America because both are systemically racist.

    Feel free to contact me if you need more evidence because I have A LOT!

    Thank you,
    Brenda Lebsack
    http://www.Interfaith4Kids.com

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