HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda Statement 1980/01/02 Item 11CITY OF CHULA VISTA
COUNCIL AGENDA STATEMENT
Item ~No. 11„_
For meeting of 1/2/80
ITEM TITLE Resolution 99Q~! Supporting California Crime Watch and the
Attorney General's Plan to Restore Public
Safety in the 80's
SUBMITTED BY City Attorney
ITEM EXPLANATION
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On December 17, 1979, Mayor Hyde received a request
from George Deukmejian, the Attorney General, seeking
support for a statewide plan to restore public safety
in the 1980's called the California Crime Watch.
The Attorney General's office and its Crime Prevention
Center have requested that a resolution supporting such
a program be adopted and forwarded to the Attorney
General as soon as possible for use during the early
part of January, 1980.
A resolution has been prepared for Council consideration
to this end.
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December 17, 1979
The Honorable Will T. Hyde
Mayor, City of Chula Vista
City Hall
Chula Vista, California 92010
Dear Mayor Hyde:
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555 CAPITOL MALL, SUITE 350
SACRAMENTO 95814
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Statistics for the first nine months of this
year show an overall rise of 7.5 percent in serious
crimes. There were considerable increases in virtually
every category reported to our department - murder,
rape, robbery, assault, larceny and auto theft. Crimes
against persons increased 11%.
The rise in crime has been evident~in large
cities, small totims and in rural areas. This pattern
suggests a widening pervasiveness of both crimes of
violence and crimes against property.
The statistics are, of course, preliminary, but
many national and regional experts on crime say they
expect a real and substantial increase for all of 1979.
That expected increase in crime suggests the surge of
violence and defiance of the law which began in the 1960's
has become an almost indelible thread now tightly woven
into our social fabric.
Among the most promising means available to
reverse the rise in crime is citizen involvement. This
is particularly true with reference to local crime
prevention programs. There is no question that an ade-
quately informed and responsibly motivated citizenry
can help restore public safety in the 1980 's. Now is
the time to act.
Consequently, I have begun work on a statewide
plan to Restore Public Safety in the 80 's. It is called
California Crime Watch. The goal of this plan is to
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conduct a coordinated, vigorous and effective statewide
crime prevention crusade to reduce crime and violence
during the next decade.
We can achieve this goal if governmental and
private sector leaders throughout California work together
to.
*Promote an informed public which will sup-
port retention and expansion of effective
local crime prevention programs.
*Educate actual and potential crime victims
how to better protect themselves, their
homes, means of transportation, businesses,
schools, parks and other recreation areas.
*Develop a more responsible administration
of criminal justice to vigorously and
effectively locate, identify, apprehend,
convict and punish criminals.
*Deter actual and potential criminals by
warning them of the increased likelihood
of apprehension and conviction and of
the enhanced probability of grave punish-
ment should those warnings be ignored.
To begin this important effort requires a uniform
statewide declaration of will. Enclosed is a sample resolu-
tion declaring 1980 to be California Crime Watch, the first
year in our decade-long Plan to Restore Public Safety in
the 80's. Will you please seek formal adoption of a similar
resolution?
If such a resolution is adopted, will you please
forward it as soon as possible to the Attorney General's
Crime Prevention Center, 555 Capitol Mall, Sacramento,
California 95814. We need it for use during early January
1980.
Most cordially,
George Deukmejian
Enclosure
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A PROPOSED RESOLUTION RELATIVE TO CALIFORNIA CRIME WATCH
WHEREAS, one United States household in five
has been hit by crime at least once in the last 12 months,
with either property stolen or a member of the household
the victim of a physical assault, according to the findings
of a Gallup poll released in December 1979; and
WHEREAS, the Gallup survey findings parallel the
upturn in crimes reported by the Federal Bureau of Investi-
gation which reported increases in every kind of major
crime for the first six months of 1979; and
WHEREAS, the Bureau of Criminal Statistics of
the California Department of Justice has documented simi-
lar results; and
WHEREAS, there has been insufficient public
attention to the rights and plight of crime victims in our
society and to effective crime prevention programs to
reduce the numbers of crime victims; and
WHEREAS, it is essential to inform the public
of and broaden the availability and merit of effective
methods of crime prevention to help minimize further dis-
ruption in the lives of crime victims;
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY (insert name
of agency, council, department, organization, club or
association, etc.): That, in recognition of the foregoing
and the mandate contained in article V, section 13 of the
California Constitution, which proclaims the Attorney
General to be California's chief law officer, the (insert
name of agency, council, department, organization, club or
associatiion, etc.) hereby takes this opportunity to
endorse and support California Crime Watch and the Attorney
General's Plan to Restore Public Safety in the 80's.
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