Ms. Davis -
Thank you for your feedback. We are looking into our the details of this call from last night, and we are checking in with dispatch regarding the interaction you described. We do know that we sent some folks out, and although there may have been no action last night. I was advised before I inquired this morning that our officers assigned to the joint Fireworks Task Force were already conducting follow up on this case in an effort to hold the responsible parties accountable for the activity.
I will follow up with you further after I get more details about last night’s response to your call.
Dave Norris
Chief of Police
City of Menlo Park, CA
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David Norris
Police Chief
Police Department
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menlopark.org
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From: Janet Davis
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2021 9:38:28 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Fireworks
This item was on Nextdoor, complaining about lack of PD response for fireworks in MP. There was a photo showing firework wrappers that did not copy
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Lackluster response from Menlo PD. Illegal massive fireworks directly behind our home, wrappers in the alley and men on camera doing it (cameras belong to Schmidt family foundation building, security guard willing to share), Menlo PD dispatcher said she wouldn’t be sending anyone, even though there are three cameras and physical evidence. Menlo PD doesn’t care to do nighttime patrols even though this happens almost every single night in our area, huge fire hazard considering all the dry brush, so disappointed to know they’re too busy racially profiling black and latinx young men over by Facebook to deal with actual crimes. As I’m sitting here writing this I hear more fireworks further down the way. These were very large, 100ft up into the air landing on our roof and tree. Always arrive fifteen minutes too late to actually do anything, hope if I’m burning alive asleep in my home one of these nights due to sky high fireworks the fire dept gets here faster than PD.
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