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TO: Mayor and city Council
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FROM: city staff
SUBJECT: Resolution supporting the Request by the Los Angeles
Board of Supervisors for Additional Locally Based
Federal Anti-Drug Resources.
INTRODUCTION
This report requests that the City Council adopt a resolution
endorsing the Board of Supervisors' request that the Federal
Government reallocate Federal anti-drug enforcement resources to
Los Angeles County. The Board asked that all cities in the
County adopt a resolution which recognizes that the area has a
major drug problem and needs additional Federal support.
BACKGROUND
Los Angeles County has become a major drug importation and
transshipment center for the United states with massive amounts
of cocaine and Mexican heroin flowing into the area. It is also
the principal manufacturing and exportation center for P.C.P. and
crack furnished by Los Angeles street gangs, and the money
laundering capitol of the United states for South American and
Mexican drug traffickers.
The current Federal resource allocation for drug investigation
and enforcement agencies assumes that the East coast,
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particularly Miami and New York, is the major drug center of the
United states. Unfortunately, the West coast is now competitive
as a major drug center, particularly Los Angeles County. The
need for personnel, technology and funding to meet the drug
crisis and its related violence in the County is clear. The
dramatic rise in drug trafficking and abuse has severely
overburdened the justice and health care systems, as evidenced by
the growing numbers of arrests, drug seizures, emergency room
episodes and deaths.
staff recommends that Council support the Board in the form of a
resolution which urges the Federal Government to:
1. Reallocate resources, including personnel, technology
and funding to Federal anti-drug enforcement agencies,
to those areas of highest drug abuse and trafficking
activity, particularly to those Federal agency offices
working in the Los Angeles county area.
2. Expedite implementation of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of
1988, targeting resources made available under the Act
to those areas which have demonstrated the greatest
need, including Los Angeles County, to assist with
local law enforcement, health care, prevention and
education efforts.
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RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt a resolution
supporting the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors' request
that the Federal Government reallocate Federal anti-drug
resources to Los Angeles County.
Prepared by:
Attachment:
James F. Keane, Chief of Police
Resolution
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Debra Myrlck
Santa Mon~ca Mun~c~pal Court
1725 Main Street, Room 118
Santa Monlca, CA 90401 Total Caples
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city Council Meeting August 8, 1989
Santa Monica, California
RESOLUTION NUMBER 7860 (CCS)
(City council series)
A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE REQUEST BY THE
LOS ANGELES BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FOR ADDITIONAL
LOCALLY BASED FEDERAL ANTI-DRUG RESOURCES
WHEREAS, the County of Los Angeles has a major drug problem and
has inadequate federal resources to meet the crisis; and
WHEREAS, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
recognized the severity of the drug problem which
overburdened the local justice, educational and health
systems; and
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WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors has requested that all cities
in the County adopt a resolution which recognizes that the area
has a major drug problem and needs additional federal resources,
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES
RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The City agrees and declares that the Federal
Government should reallocate resources, including personnel,
technology and funding of federal anti-drug enforcement agencies
to those areas of highest drug abuse and trafficking activity,
particularly to those federal agency offices working in the
Los Angeles county area.
SECTION 2. The City agrees and declares that the Federal
Government should expedite implementation of the Anti-Drug Abuse
Act of 1988, targeting resources made available under the Act to
Los Angeles County to assist with local drug prevention,
education, health care, and law enforcement efforts.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this
Resolution, and thenceforth and thereafter the same shall be in
full force and effect.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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ROBERT M. MYERS
City Attorney
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Adopted and approved this 8th day of August, 1989.
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I hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution No. 7860(CCS)
was duly adopted by the city Council of the City of Santa Monica
at a meeting thereof held on August 8, 1989 by the following
Council vote:
Ayes: Councilmembers: Abdo, Finkel, Genser, Jennings,
Katz, Mayor Zane
Noes: Councilmembers: None
Abstain: Councilmembers: None
Absent: councilmembers: Reed
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Council Meet1ng: 9/23/86
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Santa Monlca, Callfornia
TO:
Mayor and Clty Council
FROM:
City Staff
SUBJECT:
Resolutlon Endorsing the Los Angeles County District
Attorney's Offlce Narcotics Enforcement Program.
INTRODUCTION
This report requests that the Cl ty Council adopt a resolut:Lon
endorslng Los Angeles County District Attorney Ira Reiner's
Narcot:LC8 Enforcement Program.
BACKGROUND
The Dlstriet Attorney 1S insti tutlng a new program almed at
cracklng down on street drug dealers.
The maJor thrust of the
program 18 st1ffer penalties for dealers. The Los Angeles County
Pollee Chiefs ASsoc1ation has endorsed the program and they,
along with the Distrlct Attorney's Offlce, are seeklng the
support of the cltles W:Lthln the County. The support requested
is in the form of a resolution or motlon.
BUDGETARY/FINANCIAL IMPACT
None.
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RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the Clty Council adopt a resolutlon
endorslng the Los Angeles County Distrlct Attorney's Offlce
Narcotlcs Enforcement Program.
Prepared by:
James F. Keane, Chief of Police
Attachments:
Resolution
Attachment A.
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VOTE: AffIrmative"
\'egatIve'
Abstain"
Absent:
PROOr ',0" rc. ~\ I TH AKOTHER PERSOY BFFORE ANYTHIKG
DISTRI~IO~" ORIGINAL IO be signed, sealed and flIed In Vault,
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City Council Meeting 9-23-86
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Santa Monica, California
RESOLUTION NUMBER 7305(CCS)
(City Council Series)
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF SANTA MONICA ENDORSING THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY
DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE NARCOTICS
ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM
WHEREAS, street drug dealers adversely affect neighborhood
quality in the city of Santa Monica~ and
WHEREAS, the District Attorney of the County of Los Angeles
has recently announced a program to crack down on street drug
dealers,
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA
MONICA DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The City council of the City of Santa Monica
endorses the District Attorney's program aimed at cracking down
on street drug dealers as set forth in Attachment A.
SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of
this Resolution, and thenceforth and thereafter the same shall be
in full force and effect.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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ROBERT M. MYERS
City Attorney
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Street dreg dealers are the target of a major crackdown announced recently
by tt1e District Attorney. Calli~ for 8 change in tt1e pattern of lenient
sentences for street drug dealers, the District Attorney instituted the
following program:
1. ~_tRte Prison Sentp.nl!@s for Street DMlg' DeRh~l'~
In cases of possession for sale or sale of cocaine, beroin, or PCP,
the District Attorney shall seek the maximum appropriate state
prison sentence.
On all cases of possession for sale of cocaine, heroin, or PCP, or
sale of cocaine or heroin, where probation is legally permissible
and which are first offenses involving nominal quantities, the
District Attorney shall urge the sentencing judge to impose a
suspended mid-term state prison sentence with, at the minimum,
six to twelve months in county jail as a condition of a three--year
probationary grant.
On all subsequent cases involving the above described offenses,
the District Attorney shall urge sentencing judges to impose
immediate state prison sentences.
2. H2 County Parole for Street Drug Dealers
In any dn1g case of pnuession for sale or sale where the
defendant is sentenced to county jail, the District Attorney shall
urge the court to order that the defendant is ineligible for parole.
3. li2 bail for_ _repeat streF,:t drllg' dealers
Whenever a defendant is on probation for sale or possession for
sale of narcotics and a petition for violation of probation is filed,
it is the District Attorney's position that the defendant be held
without ball until disposition of the case.
The District Attorney's Office is also asking that:
Special Narcotic Courts be established - courts which are devoted
exclusively to cases involving street drug dealers.
Special Probation Violation Courts be set aside to hear petitions
for violation of probation. In this connection it is their aim to
develop expedited procedures remanding the probation violator
immediately to state prison.
Bail be substantially incre8Sed for defendants charged with dealing
narcotics. Presently many of these dealers are gettil,g out of
custody on a $5,000 bond which means they are oat on the street
in a matter of hours after their arrest by simply giving $500 to a
bail bondsman.
The citizens of La; Angeles County expect street drug dealer~ to be
incarcerated. This message must be conveyed to all in the justice system.
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Adopted and approved this 23rd day of September, 1986.
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I hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution No. 7305(CCS)
was duly adopted by the City Council of the City of Santa Monica
at a meeting thereof held on September 23, 1986 by the following
Council vote:
Ayes: Councilmembers:
Conn, Epstein, Jennings, A. Katz,
H. Katz, Zane and Mayor Reed
Noes: Councilmembers:
None
Abstain: councilmembers:
None
Absent: Councilmembers:
None
ATTEST:
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City Clerk