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Residents criticize Edinburgh police response during public comment; city manager and staff engage
Summary
Multiple residents used the public comment period to raise repeated complaints about police response to loud-music and noise complaints, accusing officers of poor training and unprofessional conduct; the city manager and staff met with complainants and noted follow-up.
Several Edinburg residents used the March 18 public-comment period to complain about police response to neighborhood noise and to call for changes in department leadership.
Diana Saenz Sepulveda told the council she had repeatedly reported loud music coming from nearby neighbors and that patrol officers failed to address the problem. “They’re off the rails,” Sepulveda said of the Edinburgh Police Department, and she accused the chief and subordinate officers of “laziness, poor training, incompetence, entitlement [and] unwillingness to work for us taxpayers.” She said officers at multiple responses…
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