Editor,
One of the joys of living in Laguna is our fellow Lagunatics and neighborhoods. This year’s Halloween celebration produced by our creative, brilliant neighbors on Oak and Brooks Street was better than ever. Can you believe the work and time these folks devoted to painting the signs, creating the amazing animated yard figures, the soundtracks and more? A big thank you to our Oak and Brook Street neighbors for their generosity.
The festivities even included the delightful surprise of wrist lights distributed by our police force to the kids and adult Halloweeners. What a generous and lovely example of community policing!
In contrast, there was the Art Walk in which our police force, often in plains clothes, crashed the Art Walk celebration to issue tickets for the first time in over a decade to our local art galleries and other business hosts for serving alcohol.
It turns out that our city dollars were used to pay for a grant writer to petition for a special funding “prize” to bust our local businesses. Is this how we want to spend our city money and resources? There have been some pleas for more funding for the police force due to a crime wave…of what? Local businesses serving cookies, cheese, and wine during Art Walk? What a silly use of our funds and a questionable example of community policing.
Deborah Laughton, Laguna Beach
It is about time our police starting acting like police and not social workers. Around the world, a country’s quality of life is directly related to the existence of law and order enforcement. We get up each day and get to go about our activities secure in the knowledge that people will be under control, both civilly and in business. Chicago just announced a record breaking number of homicides thanks to the police slowdown in response to the “black lives matter” dust-up. How about the beauty of Main Beach if littering, noise, and drinking laws were not enforced? Law and order gives us a Laguna Beach.