To the Isla Vista community,
The Office of the External Vice President for Local Affairs (EVPLA) has worked for years to promote a positive relationship between the public and our law enforcement. It is in this spirit I would like to inform the public of a recent and very important development.
On Thursday, August 11 at the Isla Vista Community Network Meeting (a monthly public meeting of residential, student, University, County and law enforcement officials), the Sheriff’s Department informed the public they are proposing an amendment to County Ordinance 40-2, the Noise Ordinance. The amendment would change the quiet hours on Friday and Saturday nights to 10 p.m. to 7 a.m., from 12 a.m. to 7a.m. The Sheriff Department proposes this amendment as a means by which to reduce crime from the hours of 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. This proposal will be initially heard by the County Board of Supervisors on September 12. In light of the fact that the majority of students are away at this time, a concern many members of the Isla Vista Community Network raised, Lieutenant Ruben Cintron has requested the meeting be pushed to September 22 to allow students to first return to Isla Vista.
This letter serves as a notice to the community of this development and represents students’ continued commitments to community-oriented policing. The official opinion of the External Vice President of Local Affairs office is to oppose this amendment. It is my belief this does not fall in line with the kinds of community-based police practices we have developed over the past 2 years. Similar policies, such as zero tolerance enforcement of music during the day during Deltopia 2014, were assumed to be effective tools to reduce crime and increase public safety. The following year due to community discussions, enforcement of day time music was relaxed and expectations from police were clearly communicated to residents. In partnership with UCIV volunteers, there was a 26 percent reduction in arrests, a 21 percent reduction in citations and an 82 percent reduction in medical transports in 2015 compared to 2014. Crime in Isla Vista has dropped 20 percent in the past two years, as reported by the Santa Barbara District Attorney’s Office. This was accomplished by creating partnerships with law enforcement and by communicating our shared community expectations, something the Sheriff’s Department proudly claims to do on their website. If we return to enforcement styles that harshly impose these expectations on our community, I believe it will undo the trust and partnerships we have worked to establish. The EVPLA office is working with a wide range of stakeholders to determine the best collective response to this proposition and ways to continue the amazing work we have done in our community. We remain committed to our partners in law enforcement and urge residents to engage in a productive conversation to achieve our shared goals. More information on the EVPLA’s official position and community meetings to discuss this matter are forthcoming.
If you have any questions concerning this proposition, I urge you to reach out to me at evpla@as.ucsb.edu.
Sincerely,
Ashcon Minoiefar
A.S. External Vice President for Local Affairs
Austin Hechler
A.S. President
Natalie Jordan
A.S. Internal Vice President
Neha Nayak
A.S. External Vice President of Statewide Affairs
Josephine Ampaw
A.S. Student Advocate General
Where can we voice our discontent with this proposal?
Isla Vista Community Resource Building
970 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla Vista, California
August 16, 2016
6PM-8PM
is there anything we can do to stop this from happening? how am i suppose to have a dance party in broad goddamn daylight fuck that
i always enjoyed day drinking, nothing wrong with swim suits. I have seen some pretty cool day parties in iv this summer
IV officially sucks cock
I am as concerned as the rest about this, I hope the sheriff’s office will listen to the community here or at least give us a chance to voice our opinions. I absolutely agree this will only serve to undermine trust and increase confrontation. Parties being shut down at 10pm will reduce crime? No, you will spill the drunken people including the potential criminals into the street 2 hours earlier, I think this would lead to disgruntled criminals acting earlier, with a longer time frame to carry out their actions. If anything this seems like an effort by the Sheriff… Read more »
This is utterly ridiculous. So playing music causes crime? Then just do quiet hours 24 hours a day then. Let these college kids have some fun for crying out loud. I’m sure glad I went to UCSB in the late 90’s. That was the golden age my friend.
What about the families in IV? Are they invisible? Do they have a voice? What if you were a child growing up in this environment? College students could be such a positive influence, but we ignore the children in our community. Here we are complaining that our parties might end earlier. I always had hope in our generation, but this makes me loose hope. We can do so much more for those who have no voice. We have the resources to do so much more for those who have no voice, but we choose ourselves.
but really shut down everything at 10pm? That will just make the drunk students pour out into the street for the kids in iv to see them before they go to bed
UCSB was here before IV (besides a few homes). As harsh as this is, anyone who moves into IV, family or not, knows what they’re coming into. That’s not permission to go bonkers, but you can’t stop college kids from being college kids. Besides, most of the families who are here in IV rely on the economics of this college town and the draw (culture of IV) that makes this popular for students.
There are plenty of IV locals who come to our DJ parties. Who the hell are you, acting you like speak for others, insinuating that they have no voice?? Twisted, patronizing ‘liberal’.
I’d like to voice my opinion against this proposal as well. Fuck that