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Still, [Louis Fetherolf] reiterates his call for more police officers. In his 90-day report last month, Fetherolf requested 131 new police personnel, including 73 sworn officers, to gain ground in the city's battle against gangs and implement community-oriented policing. "We are just so strapped for people," Fetherolf says. "We do not have the capacity we need. Unless and until that changes, we are going to continue to experience the crime we are facing."
The City Council is counting on voters to approve a one-cent sales tax increase on Nov. 3 that will help fund Fetherolf 's policing plan and fill in city budget gaps. Mayor Dennis Donohue says the tax measure won't just pay for more cops. "It's an expanded vision with additional tools," he says. "What we are looking for is a game changer.""It makes me want to pack up and leave," the woman says. She says she didn't know the people who lived in the house where the hit took place, but she saw young children there. "You know how traumatic it is for the children that live there," she says. "It's going to affect their lives forever."See the full content of this document
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Death Toll Rises
Santiago Martin still can't believe it happened. On Aug. 2, two gunmen walked up to his east Salinas doorway with guns blazing. They shot and killed his girlfriend of four years, 36-year-old Josephine Alvarez, and wounded his future sister...
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