by Garth MeyerRedondo Beach has disbanded its public safety commission.Formed in 1996, it was one of 17 city boards and commissions. It did not have oversight power. Police Chief Joe Hoffman and Fire Chief Patrick Butler said the commission had become obsolete in the new era of easier contact with public officials. City Manager Mike Witzansky concurred and on July 1 the city council voted 3-2 to eliminate it.A revamped, smaller version may replace it. Meanwhile, Austin Carmi
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Laura Garber
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Is anyone who’s paying attention really surprised? I am surprised that the fire cheif would vote as such, but the city atty and shameless Anti-American Joe Hoffman would not be doing their part in declawing and stamping out the citizens efforts at accountability from their overpaid, overreaching law enforcement “leaders”. They cite “social networking” as one means of communicating – what a joke! so when you get kicked off NextDoor becuase you say you think th epolice could do a better job (and the cops who troll the platfornm cry and complain until you get silenced) ….how effective is that? The police in this community are out of control…and they have been. They have destroyed lives of innocent citizens for years while people like Shameless Joe the Anti-American and his croanies like Snakenborg hve outright fabricated charges, evidence and stories….they have committed the worse of offenses towards the citizens …and when I say the WORST…I mean it. If people think that the police in the Redondo Beach community are above committing the worst of possible crimes – guess again. They have and some of us are well aware of it. They have devoted their careers tosculpting the highest paying jobs with the easiest of duties and unquestionable job security and managed to perfect the art of lying to the community and manipulating public opinion. They are run by some of the worst kinds of people and the whole administration needs to be brought up on charges….lets hope so. Congratulations to the crooked, phoney police administration…you’ve managed to silence yet another obstacle standing between your grimy filthy hands digging into the pockets of the taxpayers yet again…. where are the Feds when you need them???
The Mayor and Council need to direct the Police and Fire Chiefs to have a monthly open meeting for the public to attend. It should have a Q&A and a time to bring up general issues. The chiefs also need a private one-on-one calendar for meetings with residents. If this communications thing is SO EASY, then let’s see them do it.
Sat in our city council (CC) meeting a week ago when they discussed a vote on eliminating the Safety Commission (SC). Learned that the commission cost $50K a year, haven’t had many items on their docket recently, and that other commissions concerns overlap with the SC. The CC is already primarily responsible for the safety of our community. The police gave convincing reasoning for eliminating it and the mayor feels it’s the right thing to do. I didn’t really fully understand why the police cared one way or the other though. The SC didn’t seem to be making their jobs more difficult. I was hesitant to doing away with it just yet. The SC and commissions as a rule can help to insulate the CC from undue political pressure when tough votes are to be made by supporting the CC with their own votes after due diligence. I’m still hesitant but I vote for my reps to make these tough calls, and I just hope it works out. It’ll be their legacy if it doesn’t.