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Posted on Thursday, June 23, 2011 
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Raúl Cruz
East Palo Alto needs more protection on the streets, so people can be a little bit safer. During vacations, the police should be more aware of the needs of the community when people are away from home. So I think we should increase the number of police on foot patrol or bike patrol in East Palo Alto to make the streets safer.
In East Palo Alto, a lot of teenagers have been doing lots of wrong stuff, such as doing drugs and buying drugs off the drug dealers. They also rob houses and cars. If there were more police patrols, there wouldn’t be those kinds of
problems. Younger kids wouldn’t have bad influences all around them. That’s why you should increase the police protection.
The second reason you should increase police protection is that people vandalize the schools. Usually this happens during the summer and on weekends. It affects the students and the community because they got their learning tools taken away. There should be more police on the lookout at our schools for those criminals who vandalize our schools.
If East Palo Alto has more police, more business people will be coming to the IKEA Shopping Mall. So that means more tax money for East Palo Alto. This will help the organizations that give food to the needy because budget cuts are taking money away from the organizations.
You might say that there is no tax money to pay for more police. It all depends on how you spend it, so you should give a certain amount to the police force to provide more safety on the streets. You might not think that giving the money to police will solve everything, but it will decrease some problems. The people of East Palo Alto are worth it because they are hard workers.
I want to increase the number of police so the community can feel a little bit safer out in the streets. This will be a good investment of our tax money.
Raúl Cruz is a 15-year-old East Palo Alto student. To contact him through East Palo Alto Today about this article, email epatoday@epatoday.org. You can read his article on East Palo Alto Today on Facebook.
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