Homicides decreased in Santa Ana 59% over the past year!

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• And, how many nonfatal gang-related shootings were there? Say what you want but I won't travel through Santa Ana without protection.

  • Aren't you a police officer? I thought I read that somewhere. If so can't you carry a weapon anyway?

    As for my city, it is a lot safer than you think. For a big city we have a great safety record. Most of our detractors are just racists.

• I am a peace officer and, truth is, I don't much go down to my local supermarket unarmed anymore (remember the guy at the Irvine Albertaons with the samurai sword?). I'm no racist but I can read the papers. Homicides may have gone down but gang activity, something I have firsthand knowledge of, is prevelant in Santa Ana, regardless of what Paul Walters would like to believe. And, just because I can, doesn't mean I don't support that right for all. Oh, and I'm no racist.

  • Come to our Art Walk on Saturday night and see for yourself!

• I'm at the Memphis almost every Thursday night. That's just one small part of Santa Ana. Go a few blocks West. An SAPD friend once told me the most dangerous part of SA was the 6Democrat's square blocks around the police station. Oh, and, don't they have a security guard at the art walk?

• Democrats shouldnt have been in there. Commenting on my phone. Sorry.

  • Freudian slip? It sounds like your opinion of Santa Ana has been shaped by he mean-spirited Democrats who hang out at the Memphis on Thursday nights.

• LOL, no seriously, my phone inserts words if I hit the space bar twice after wntering a word. Maybe my phone knows me better than I do.

• "I am a peace officer and, truth is, I don’t much go down to my local supermarket unarmed anymore"....... Hmmmmmm

  How does arming yourself helps your paranoia?

  Do you see more or less shadows on the wall when you are armed?

  Lets assume that we are both in civilian outfit and both armed law abiding citizens and I see you have gun so my paranoia kick in and I believe that you will soot me.

  Can I shoot you first?.... or must I scream freeze first and then shoot you.

  You COPs are so sick that you will soot a guy with a water-hose-nozzle in his hand or 19 year old girl with kitchen knife 20' away or mother in front of her child passing by at 15 m/h in the back of her head.

  I think that COPs shouldn't carry any guns.

  The American COPs are really, really, really sick psychopaths.

• Feeling safe is just that...a feeling. If people don't feel safe, then they will perceive the city as not safe. Just because deadly shootings are down, does not make a city safe. Hopefully we are going in the right direction and constantly improving- nothing turns overnight for either good or bad. We have a long ways to go before I feel safe. Tonight, I met a SAUSD elementary school teacher who said that he did not feel comfortable even having any cash on him or in his car because of the neighborhood his school is in...that is feeling not safe.

• Stanley, go pick a fight with one of your Republican boyfriends. I'm not interested, particularly since you didn't read my post. I said I am a peace officer, not a cop. There are over 25 classifications of peace officer in the California penal code. I work for the second largest law enforcement agency in the county.

  I was a cop and I did not work for Fullerton PD. And, I could care less how you feel about cops. The vast majority, just like Catholic Priestsvand Kenmore repairken, are fine, hardworking people. However, regardless of how you feel about cops or KE personally, you might want to be standing next to me when shit hits the fan... since I shoot Expert on the range... oh yeah, and since our socialist sheriff probably won't give you a CCW permit.

• I guess you can get use to the area that you live in.

  I have no problem walking or bike riding around any part of Santa Ana.

  But whatever is said, who cares? as long as it keep the High-Brows out of the city so the rest of us can live our happy lives without hose pride-full creeps messing things up.

• Cook,

  I agree with you in regards to not having a problem walking or riding a bike around any part of Santa Ana. The perception of our city is created by the Register and outsiders that don't live here.

  Crime is down dramatically in our city, especially violent crime and the numbers prove that. Paul Walters and the SAPD have managed to do this despite having a larger population and less police officers.

  Kudos to the Chief, the men and women of the SAPD and the city leaders that give them the tools to get the job done.