The City Council of the City of West Hollywood will receive a Public Safety Update as part of its regular meeting agenda on Monday, March 21, 2022 at 6 p.m. This meeting will take place as a Teleconference meeting.
The Public Safety Update will include information regarding public safety activities from the City’s Public Safety Department, including the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and Los Angeles County Fire Department.
Additionally, the City of West Hollywood’s upcoming Public Safety Commission meeting will take place on Monday, March 14, 2022 at 6 p.m. This meeting will take place as a Teleconference meeting. The Public Safety Commission meets monthly and provides community members with an opportunity to provide input on public safety-related services.
For additional information, including meeting agendas and teleconference details for each of these meetings, please visit www.weho.org/agendas. Click on Public Safety Commission, then Current Agenda Packet to access the agenda for the Public Safety Commission meeting; click on City Council, then Agenda Packet to access the agenda for the City Council meeting. (Please note, the City Council meeting agenda will be posted on Wednesday, March 16, 2022.)
The City of West Hollywood’s Public Safety Department provides oversight of law enforcement and coordinates community programs to reduce crime and increase public safety and the quality of life for citizens, businesses, and visitors to West Hollywood. The City contracts with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department for police protection, the Los Angeles County Fire Department for fire protection services, and Block by Block and PACWEST for additional safety services.
The City of West Hollywood has a long history of promoting justice and equity by utilizing creative solutions and funding robust social services to support residents. Staff members from multiple City departments work with the City’s Public Safety Commission to provide input on programs and policies. This includes a forthcoming community engagement process, which will provide broad inclusion of the West Hollywood community and advocacy groups to gather a diverse range of input in addition to continued collaboration between the City’s Social Services contracted organizations and law enforcement, and continued partnership between the City’s Code Compliance Division and West Hollywood Sheriff’s Station to promote neighborhood livability and address the various quality of life issues that regularly impact the West Hollywood community.
Everyone knows that we need police walking our streets to protect citizens and prevent crimes. The cops seem to be too lazy to do their jobs properly–I’m sure there are many reasons for this.
The police arrived at my apartment building with 10 SUVs to escort a mentally ill woman to the hospital. Surely this show of force could be better employed on the streets.
“This meeting will take place as a Teleconference meeting”
Seriously?
Yes. Seriously.
The Public Safety Commission…are these the same numbnuts that approved recommending to the council that they “defund” the police by cutting their budget? They should be called the Public UNsafe Commission. They’re a joke.
Certainly cutting ten deputies in order to fund homeless mental health outreach teams is “creative”. I believe that the proposed teams to help people have mental meltdowns or crisis is a great program that is being adopted in other jurisdictions. But funding for this program should be independent of the Sheriff’s budget. If the City’s Public Information Office wanted to keep the public informed, perhaps this press release would have included the recommendations from the Public Safety Commission.
Public safety must be the number one priority of sound municipal governance. As such, the council should be demanding an update at each and every single council meeting. They should be demanding more of everyone involved in the myriad activities of public safety. Anything less is a dereliction of their duty to public safety.
Again you have made a strong point. Mr. Martin prefers to hand this type of decision making and/or recommendations to Public Safety Commissioners who operate on wishful thinking rather than competence and reality. The CC has had ample time to get a strong grip on this issue with strategy and logistics but since they inherit no consequence, the process has taken on a life of its own, a dereliction of duty and a practice of poking at problems with long sticks. They appear to be performers on the West Hollywood Stage of No Consequence.
Dear No,
I think you have mis-read my comments because I said nothing of the sort. I was very disappointed by the debate and thought process of the Public Safety Commissioner that lead to this result. But I agree with you that this recommendation seems to have large elements of theater.
Press release should have included recommendations from the PS Commission thus suggesting you find value in their material. I accept if you believe I mis-interpreted your remark.