The Mayor also reported that violent crime in Irvine dropped by 5% and property crime fell by 16% last year.
Mayor Agran thanked the City’s public safety officers: “On behalf of a grateful Irvine community, I want to take this moment to thank Chief Michael Kent and our entire Irvine Police Department for yet another year of outstanding work! Our Irvine public safety strategies rely on community policing — what we also call constitutional policing. These strategies effectively keep us safe while building enduring bonds of mutual trust with our law-abiding Irvine citizenry.”
The Mayor did report one concerning public safety statistic: “The number of vehicles and people involved in serious injury accidents actually went up last year. So, clearly, we have more work to do. We are stepping up our law enforcement against road racing and street takeovers. And, as permitted by state law, our City Council recently approved lower speed limits on nearly 100 streets throughout Irvine. These measures — plus added police enforcement, continuing traffic engineering improvements, and the vigilance of all law-abiding Irvine citizens — should help us reduce the number and severity of traffic collisions this year — and actually save lives.”…