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Cerritos council backs crime-abatement measures, keeps ALPR trailer in place and orders traffic study for neighborhood access trials
Summary
After residents reported a drop in burglaries near Liberty Park following deployment of a live-feed license-plate-recognition trailer, the council directed staff to continue crime-abatement measures, keep the trailer in place, expand ALPR deployment and do a traffic study for proposed single-entry trials in two neighborhoods.
The Cerritos City Council took a series of crime-abatement steps on March 27 after public comment from two residential neighborhoods and staff briefings about recent burglary patterns and pilot surveillance measures.
Public safety staff described a neighborhood pilot near Liberty Park where a live-feed automatic license plate reader (ALPR) trailer was placed on Feb. 7. Residents and staff reported zero reported residential burglaries in that tract after the trailer’s deployment. Susie Vigil, a resident of the affected Liberty Park tract, presented a petition signed by 174 homes asking the city to install permanent surveillance cameras at both tract entrances rather than pursue a single-entrance trial.
Public Safety Manager Daryl Evans and Public Works Director Alvin Papa briefed the council on crime data, fire and emergency…
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