TARZANA : Panel to Discuss Ways to Fight Crime
The commanding officer of the Los Angeles Police Department’s West Valley Division and a deputy district attorney will be among the panelists at a lunchtime forum on crime sponsored by the Tarzana Chamber of Commerce.
The luncheon will be held Thursday at noon at Braemar Country Club.
“This is the issue people are most interested in,” said Roberta Boardman, executive director of the Tarzana Chamber of Commerce.
Boardman said the chamber took a poll of its members in January asking for suggestions for topics for its monthly luncheon meetings, and “crime” was overwhelmingly the most common suggestion. “It’s all people want to talk about,” he said.
Cmdr. Ronald Bergman, who will represent the Police Department at the luncheon, said that although crime in the West Valley is down, there has been a recent increase in graffiti and gang activity.
Bergman said he would talk about citizen graffiti patrols and community-based policing as ways of combatting those types of crime.
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