Gang injunction needed to help decrease crime

Fallbrook Citizens’ Crime Prevention Committee (FCCPC), on May 27 at Zion Lutheran Church, had 200 sign-in attendees for a crime prevention meeting. A unanimous vote was taken asking Undersheriff Bill Gore, second in command for San Diego County Sheriff’s Department, to implement a gang injunction for Fallbrook. Citizens agree this is required to restore public safety and help decrease crime.

While local law enforcement debates over numbers and perceptions regarding the rise in violent crimes for 2007, Fallbrook citizens validate their request due to two fatal stabbings in 2008 within 30 days, not counting one 16-year-old shot in the head on April 11, 2008, at Carl’s Jr., one man fatally stabbed on Thanksgiving Day 2007 and approximately 28 businesses the victim of commercial burglaries from January 1 to February 7, 2008.

To these figures, from January to April 2008, add two rapes, a combination of five armed robberies and 19 aggravated assaults, 46 resident burglaries and 65 non-residential burglaries. One mother reported that a burglar broke into their home and stole computers and electronic equipment out of the children’s room while they were sleeping. Imagine if anyone had woken up.

When we don’t feel safe at the bank, grocery store, gas station or asleep in our own homes, we need a gang injunction! E-mail Bill Horn’s Senior Policy Advisor, Caroline Smith, at [email protected] or write to 1600 Pacific Highway, Room 335, San Diego, CA 92101; fax number (619) 685-2555. Support the injunction!

Patricia D. Braendel

FCCPC founder/president