Stockton officially began an new year with the potential for things to continue to get worse or to get better. There needs to be change in the city. Our City officials need to come up with a new strategy to try and cut the crime rate down, improve the quality of living in the City and bring new commerce to the city. What has been done by City officials for the last couple of years has not worked, so when something does not work--then you need to try and fix it.
We need to figure out a budget that will work, even though it will cause some hardship, we need a police department that can control violent crime, and need to stop wasting money where money could be better used for other things. Now by know means to do I even no where to begin on how to address the issues that I have stated, but there is one thing I do know if there is a problem and things are not working the way they are being done, that means new tactics or new ideas need to be explored. In 2009 the City of Stockton had several dubious titles that were not ones to be proud of for example: We were the foreclosure capital, we ranked 36 out of all the cities in the US as the most violent places to live, we were ranked as one of the top porn search engine cities for pornography, we faced loosing 30 plus police officer positions, we had one of the highest murder rates in California per capita.
Before the end of the year we went out with a bang, and had three murders in a 12 hour period--not something to be proud of or to feel safe about. Stockton has it's problems--but I feel all these problems are fixable with some new ideas, a City Council willing to act, and a Police Department that will keep fighting as it has done so far.
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