Public Safety
“Public safety is a top priority if not the top priority for government, and we are proud in Simi Valley to maintain one of the safest cities in America and maintain an outstanding Police Department. Our community is committed to keeping itself safe, and the results show when neighbors care enough to report anything suspicious they see on their street, and we can provide the resources not only to respond in emergencies, but to also educate them on how to protect themselves beforehand.”
- Glen Becerra
“Our first priority to the residents of Simi Valley is providing a safe community. When you have a safe community, you can focus on all the other quality-of-life issues, like landscaping, improvements on the roads, the mall.”
- Glen Becerra, in “Taxes to help hire police; Revenues to rise from newest mall,” Los Angeles Daily News, Nov. 27, 2005
“This is the direction we should be going. We should be focusing not just on the gang task force concept but also on the broader concept of public safety.”
- Glen Becerra, in “Gang task force renamed, duties expanded, Simi Valley Acorn, Aug. 8, 2008
“I think that where there are neighborhoods that are looking for assistance, that want to step up and improve their area, we should find a way to formally engage those areas,”
- Glen Becerra, in “Gang task force renamed, duties expanded, Simi Valley Acorn, Aug. 8, 2008
From “Council honors first responders to train wreck; Simi thanks firefighters, says help is available for victims,” Ventura County Star, Sept. 16, 2008: “Time after time, you all rise to the occasion,” said Councilman Glen Becerra to representatives from both county fire departments at the meeting. "It was a horrible tragedy, but our residents were in very competent hands."
From “Crime down in Simi in ’08,” Jan. 23, 2008: “Reports of property crimes dropped 16 percent in Simi Valley in 2008, according to statistics released last week by the police department, part of a 14.9 percent drop in overall crime. There were 384 fewer property crimes reported in the city in 2008. ‘To put it in context, that's one less crime a day for the entire year,’ Police Chief Mike Lewis said.”
