Petition updateStoltz USA Must Improve Security/Public Safety at The Promenade Mall in Palos VerdesReply to Stoltz USA/Stoltz Management
Scott BurackPalos Verdes Peninsula, CA, United States
10 May 2018
I totally agree with Florentine Christian recent reply to Stoltz USA / Stoltz Management (listed below). Everyone please read and let's get more signatures and awareness.
1) Emergency Notification System - This should already be in place as a very basic, minimal standard of practice.
2) Police Substation - This does not answer to the property's responsibility to keep its tenants and their customers safe. It reads like deflection of responsibility and passing the buck. Its not like a security officer had witnessed the crime on a live video feed and had immediately called 911. The sheriff's department cannot even begin to respond to a crisis until somebody witnesses it and notifies them it is taking place. How does a closer sheriff sub-station answer to the need for better video surveillance in the parking structure and capacity for property management to quickly respond?
3) Situational Awareness Training - A one-time event for mall patrons to learn about how to not attract theft from their autos feels very out of touch with the shock and trauma this community is experiencing right now in response to a woman who was violently murdered. It is a token effort. And again, it demonstrates an obvious deflection of responsibility.
The bottom line is that we need monitored cameras and security personnel patrolling the parking structure on a 24 hour basis. We have been asking for this long before this very unfortunate incident, and if we had gotten better responsiveness from the management/owners prior to now, this death might have been prevented. It is shameful that a woman was violently stabbed to death in broad daylight in a high traffic parking garage around the lunch hour and there was not adequate monitoring to have responded to it and prevented it or to at least more easily identify the killer and his/her escape after the crime was committed. None of your above mentioned initiatives would have made an ounce of difference in preventing this woman's death, nor will they make an ounce of difference in preventing a similar tragedy in the future. And still worse, the mall's security vulnerabilities have now been broadcasted publically, illuminating the parking structure as a virtual safe haven for criminals to carry out the most heinous of crimes with little threat of being caught.
There needs to be substantial responsiveness on the part of management/ownership to signal that this mall and parking structure will not be such an easy place to commit a crime and get away with it as it has been up to this point. The suggestions outlined in this petition offer a thoughtful place to start.
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