Are Valley residents safer than before?

I don’t believe the numbers. I don’t have access to them and I don’t know where they originate. I do know that the police agency that maintains these figures has an extremely checkered past.

I do know this: As long as young men can be shot to death by known gang members, and armed thugs can force their way into the sanctity of our homes, that women can be kidnapped, murdered and incinerated in their own car, I don’t feel safe. As long as politicians deny the law-abiding their rights under the Constitution I don’t feel safe.

Call the police? They seem to be running neck and neck with the street punks in terms of body count. They seem to have no qualms whatsoever about shooting unconscious women, the mentally ill or any poor unfortunate person from 12 to 24 to 106 times. One hundred and six times!

Even the worst gang shooting doesn’t expend that much ammunition. Until these trigger-happy cops are culled from the ranks of the honest-to-God good cops that must be out there, I don’t feel safe. Until I can actively participate in the defense of my family and myself (read: carry a concealed weapon) I won’t feel safe.

---Daniel Taylor
Tujunga