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Safer Communities Measure
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Here is the series of articles that appeard on LACP.org in support of the notion that the community should be allowed to decide on the May 2005 ballot if it was willing to accept a
½ cent sales tax. They are presented here for your review in reverse order of their appearance, with the most recent article first:




LACP lead a
grassroots effort to
increase LAPD patrol,
improve public safety
and help our youth
In support of more LAPD officers / Public Safety
City Council denies voters / stakeholders rights ...


Dedicated ½ cent sales tax would have supported new officers at LAPD, more

February 10, 2005

by Bill Murray
..Virtually everyone agrees, there's a BIG need for increasing the number of police officers at LAPD. Virtually everyone agrees that all areas of Los Angeles should have 24 hour ambulance service. And virtually everyone agrees that a significant increase in the funding of youth programs for prevention and intervention is a good idea. But no one knows how to pay for it ... except possibly the community itself, which failed by a slender margin in the City to pass a countywide ½ cent sales tax when a badly packaged and ill marketed campaign was presented to it last fall. Now six City Council members feel it's not our right, as voters and stakeholders, to decide for ourselves whether or not we're willing to SELF tax to pay for a far better chance at increasing public safety.

February 10, 2005
City Council denies voters / stakeholders their right of choice
1/2 cent city dedicated sales tax, originally recommended 10-5, dies 9-6



Yours in service,

Bill Murray
LACP