Kasey Hatley
carpenter
“Well, I think it is a pretty safe place already, so that’s probably all I got.”
Loas Padalli
chef
“Six months ago we had a meeting with all the soccer teams, and we talked about having more fields to play soccer so the kids and all the families can be in there and have no time to get involved with criminals. My son plays soccer and I play soccer, and most Sundays everybody spends time on the fields with their families.”
Kevin Drom
owner of Play It Again Sports
“I’m going to say more jobs for people, that way if people aren’t struggling to make ends meet they may not have to turn to crimes just to live comfortably.”
Araceli Arellano
prep cook
“We need more cops on the street. I was the victim of identity theft last week. Someone opened my car. I really get so upset because we get a lot of homeless on the streets and nobody regulates that. They’re around all day long. It can be kind of scary.”
This article appears in Oct 6-13, 2016.