VOLUME 8, ISSUE 21 | AUGUST 27, 2020
THE VALLEJO WEEKLY
MAYOR’S MESSAGE Hello Vallejo, The last six months have posed some severe challenges to our community. From COVID 19 to economic hardship for our residents, businesses, and city government, to a spike in crime. It is the latter I wish to write about. As of today, our homicide rate is at an alarming 19. Shootings are on the rise, as are auto thefts. I have received many messages voicing your concerns about crime. Residents of our city are afraid; and as your Mayor, I hear the concerns, your heartbreak, and fears. I have taken your comments directly to the City Manager, Greg Nyhoff, and Police Chief Shawny Williams, demanding that we take back our city. I suggested that we enlist the help of the California Highway Patrol as we did in the mid-1990s where they augmented our patrol staffing with eight officers patrolling some of the more challenging areas of Vallejo. That program, Operation Safe-Streets, was a success with a large reduction in crime, firearms were taken off the street, many stolen vehicles were recovered and perpetrators sentenced to jail.