Hermosa Beach is tapping personnel from a private consulting firm to help its police department enforce an ordinance requiring face coverings in many public areas, city officials said.
“The reality is that police not only in Hermosa Beach but throughout Southern California are dealing with public safety every single moment of every single day,” he said. “So trying to add the enforcement of social distancing and face masks makes it very difficult for our officers to be effective in anything they’re doing.”
“We could not be more densely populated and densely packed, especially on weekends,” Hermosa Beach Mayor Mary Campbell said. “We have, as a beach town, thousands of visitors who come, and so our ordinance is focused on our public spaces where physical distancing is not reliably possible.”The ordinance passed July 28 requires that people wear face coverings downtown and at Pier Plaza, the Strand, the Greenbelt, city parks and beaches.
Manhattan Beach, which adopted its ordinance about three weeks ago, has also outsourced enforcement in a bid to alleviate the burden on its police department. Private security firm Contemporary Services Corp. is providing guards that issue warnings and hand out masks, and Willdan is providing personnel that have the legal authority to write citations, Mayor Richard Montgomery said.“You can’t have that many police out there doing this. It takes away from normal police duties,” he said.
As of last Sunday, he said, the teams had written 226 citations, given 1,657 warnings to people wearing face coverings incorrectly and handed out hundreds of disposable face masks to those who didn’t have them.“And if you ask our residents, businesses downtown, anyone at the parks, we have seen a dramatic increase in compliance,” Montgomery said.
This is what happens in a repressive state where the government controls the population. The same happened during WW2, when those denunciating the Jewish drew praise and got a medal.
give me a freaking break...
What are the Huntington Beach police doing while this is happening?
Can’t wait for the first picture to emerge of a maskless officer ticketing a maskless beachgoer.
Spending taxpayer money to learn how to tax the taxpayer more if they don't obey. Good luck.
This isn't gonna end well
Thank me
So we the people are allowed to take action against such people who have no real authority. If assaulted by them we can then sue the city and their private army. Love it. Typical of the Democrat failure to lead!
I read the story. These contractors have no guns & can’t make arrests—only carry free masks & ticket books 2 issue citations. This seems really good 2 me. Lightens the load from residents 2 enforce on peers, & 4 front line workers 2 enforce on customers.
YAS! Arrest the paddle borders! 🤦🏽♀️🙃
Because the police are too busy shutting off ppls utilities. 😴😂😂😂😂😳😳😳😳
Ahh, the good old days
Do we call ppl not wearing a mask “illegals”
Privatizing the police would be a good idea, wouldn't it?
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