CM PRESS # 512

COSTA MESA CRIME DROPS EVEN WITH FEWER COPS

In the above linked Daily Pilot article you'll see different ideas as to why our crime has dropped.

The one that wasn't mentioned is probably the most important:  Improvement is taking hold.

The Westside still has pockets of problems, but the area is starting to attract more upwardly mobile people and there are neighborhoods on the Westside that are starting to look and feel more like older (but still nice) parts of Newport Beach.

If you haven't been to the Freedom Homes area--now called Canyon Park neighborhood--in several years, you might want to drive around over there.  There are many new homeowners and they're fixing up their homes.

And, in case you've forgotten, Councilmember Bever is the guy who has been the spark plug for much of the improvement in that area.

No, this doesn't mean we can let up on wanting more improvement for the Westside.  That time will come when the entire Westside is as nice and safe as the Eastside.
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DRUG DOC SAYS IT WAS COCAINE

Someone tell Barbara Venezia and Costa Mesa's Interim Police Chief Steve Stavely that they shouldn't try to guess about something they apparently know little about.
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MAJORITY OF VOTERS WANT PUBLIC PENSION  REFORM NOW

More facts and figures from the Daily Pilot that will quickly attract the usual low brow rapid response team of ignorant haters and bigots.
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