SAN DIEGO – The San Diego Police Officers Association is causing an increase in crime.
In recent days, San Diego has fired several shots from highways to public parks and popular tourist destinations. Some police now say that is enough.
As the parks are in chaos, the San Diego Police Association is raising the alarm after the 12th murder in San Diego City Park.
“It’s very dramatic,” said Jared Wilson, president of the police union. “Compared to 2019, when there were only two murders in the parks across the city. Any murder in the city park is too much.”
The last one took place on Friday in Teralta Park. Officials have reported another 11 deaths in local parks since May last year.
“The violence is getting worse on the streets, and we will not be able to keep up with our staff and resources – many low-level criminals will be released immediately, and that is tragic,” Wilson said.
Just last week, officials responded to two shootings on Interstate 8, one of which involved a partial California road patrol officer. The other was a traffic rage whose suspect was still at large.
Recent shootings also took place in Belmont Park, and police responded to the shooting on Shelter Island over the weekend.
“Becoming a police officer in a big city is very difficult right now and the level of control is very high, which is appropriate at some level, but we need more officers,” says Wilson.
SDPOA has invited Monica Montgomery Steppe, a member of the board, to chair the Committee on Public Security and Residential Neighborhoods. They want him and the rest of the Council to do more to curb the violence.
“He has set out the defense law in his annual work plan, when he has not emphasized anything else. We raise the alarm and the red flag to say that your priorities are wrong, you need to fix it, ”said Wilson.
Montgomery Steppe published this statement to FOX 5:
“There is a pattern of neglect in the communities south of the eight that has undoubtedly contributed to the cycle of violence in our communities. The SDPOA’s ignorance of the difficult deprivation of the communities they have sworn to serve and protect exacerbates our current dilemma of the growing violence in our city. “