BACA URGES SUPPORT FOR TAX COUNTY CALLED CAPITAL OF CRIME.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer PALMDALE - Promoting a proposed half-percent sales tax sales tax, levy on the sale of goods or services, generally calculated as a percentage of the selling price, and sometimes called a purchase tax. It is usually collected in the form of an extra charge by the retailer, who remits the tax to the government. to pay for more law-enforcement officers, Sheriff Lee Baca Leroy David Baca (b. May 27 1942, East Los Angeles, California) is the Sheriff of Los Angeles County, California. After graduating from Benjamin Franklin High School (Los Angeles) in 1960, Baca worked his way through East Los Angeles College before starting with the L.A. called Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County the murder, robbery and illegal drug capital of the United States. With 10 million residents, Los Angeles County has 27,000 police officers and sheriff's deputies, compared with 39,000 police officers in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , which has a population of 8 million. ``We are the least policed part of America,'' Baca said at a press conference in Palmdale to support Measure A on the Nov. 2 ballot. The measure needs a two-thirds majority to pass. Los Angeles County has about 1,000 murders - half of them gang-related - in an average year, about 60,000 burglaries and 75,000 auto thefts, Baca said. By comparison, in 2003 New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of had 597 homicides, 28,300 burglaries and 23,600 vehicle thefts, according to the FBI. If voters pass Measure A, the new tax would collect about $500 million a year. About $6 million would go to both Lancaster and Palmdale, supporters said. To prevent city and county officials from shifting other revenue sources away from law enforcement if the new sales tax passes, the measure requires governments to fund law enforcement at not lower than their 2003-04 budgets - except if other revenues decline - to qualify for the new tax money. As part of a tour of the county to promote Measure A, Baca appeared before news media in a press conference at the Palmdale Courtyard by Marriott Courtyard by Marriott is a brand of hotels owned by Marriott International. They have over 2,800 hotels worldwide, as of June 2007. Courtyard by Marriott is designed for business travelers. Hotel, with off-duty sheriff's deputies and other supporters wearing T-shirts reading ``Don't Be Half Safe.'' Charles F. Bostwick, (661) 267-5742 chuck.bostwick(at)dailynews.com |
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