2024-04-16 CC Agenda - Public Communication - Misc. - Reinforcing Respect for ESPD2024-04-16 CC AGENDA
PUBLIC COMMUNICATION - MISC. - REINFORCING RESPECT FOR ESPD
From: Stephanie Ms <stephanie.ms@aol.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2024 4:41 PM
To: *ALL CITY COUNCIL <allcouncil@elsegundo.org>
Cc: Boyles,Drew (Mayor) <dboyles@elsegundo.org>; Pimentel, Chris (Mayor Pro Tem) <cpimentel@elsegundo.org>;
Pirsztuk, Carol (Council Member) <cpirsztuk@elsegundo.org>
Subject: Reinforcing respect for ESPD in their environment
Dear City Council members:
Greetings!
The reason for this letter —is to ask you all to make sure our officers are not unintentionally
undermined in the environment in which they work. Attached is a picture of the HOC which I am
told I.
In this picture, (and during emergency operations) the setup gives the continued impression our
police members (using the podium) are pushed to the side —as if less important than what takes
place on the centrally -placed tv monitor that, at times, makes (Los Angeles County, etc.) officials look
larger than life with loud volume and vibrant colors. The flag is planted next to trash and also looks
pushed to the side.
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officials, among others, pushed lock downs, experimental injections and election booths with written
assurances that identities would not be checked, etc. These Dices t i h a history of violatin o
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Instead, our first responders should take center stage with the "American" flag appropriately
adorning them not the trash can. The big black screen bringing in outside voices should be
pushed to the side and even minimized in size if appropriate to indicate it is the side voice, not the
most prominent one. The layout of the room should reinforce the respect we have for our
officers, not reinforce disrespect to them and our country. We will get better service from our
officers by preserving the cloak of respect that should be resting upon their shoulders.
Even the podium d6cor needs attention. The logo geometry inherently looks off balanced —as if it's
one more thing to throw our officers off balance when meeting in that room. The logo looks more
pretty than official, like something out of a coloring book. Not trying to be offensive, but I want our
police department to look good and official when they hold press conferences —which they should be
prepared to do. And the podium can be addressed so it is ready to handle such in the future.
L.A. County should never be viewed in a more serious light with more official looking podiums during
press conferences as compared to our own local police department when addressing serious matters
like mandates. L.A. County does press conferences on podiums using official seals and muted
colors. Our Local police department doesn't display an official seal but a cartoon -colored logo less
formal and less serious looking. / ask you to consider changing this imbalance of public
perception. (There is a nationwide effort to diminish the effectiveness and view of police departments
nationwide and we can do our part to resist it here.)
Perhaps you can redesign the podium logo by balancing it out with the city's blutterfly, etc. /modify
coloring, etc. ***** or better yet, get an official looking round seal of appropriate size and toned
down colors so the podium has a more authoritative and serious tone consistent with being an
American city.*** Perhaps consider moving the other oversized wall shield and badge logos to the
adjoining walls and put traditional awards and commemorative wall plaques behind the podium —or
just leave blank walls. The d6cor can either add or detract from the credibility of our officers. I opt to
have it add to their credibility.
The ultimate responsibility for making Constitutional policing decisions about our safety rests
upon our local police department and everything in the environment in which they work
should reinforce that truth so they do not forget and hand such decisions to outsiders. This is
so important in this era where our borders have been overrun with terrorists living in our midst.
With this climate encompassing terrorists and a broken border, we need to support our officers in
a warrior culture. It's time to dump the guardian/no-force/friends-only, demasculated police officer
culture that has crept into our society and our local department through
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Please bring back the 1990's officers' training emphasizing active shooter training over DEI/them-
their/bias/feeling based training.
And while we're at it, we should remove the All gender bathroom signs from our fire department and
the DEI page from the city website. Firemen are heroes and there is no good reason to have kids
think their heroes support DEI and its illogical consequences. The U.S. office of Diversity and
Inclusion has been closed and it's time our city also closes this chapter in our history.
Thank you for your consideration and for all you do to help this city.
Respectfully,
/s/resident
P.S. It is inconsistent to welcome DEI principles at the same time you seek to draw in
new business/tech companies . They will only survive by hiring the best talent not by prioritizing
DEI.