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Regional Recreation Area is the highest use park when it comes to its equestrian officers. <br />EBRPD normally has one or two equestrian officers present at the recreation area every <br />Saturday and Sunday of the suma-ner season. He took pride in the fact that EBRPD has a <br />low rate of crime and has very few serious crimes at the park. To speculate that adding <br />these amenities inside a fenced area with security personnel, where people are required to <br />pay, is going to suddenly cause a crime spree, in his opinion, is unwarranted. He based <br />this information on his experience in working with the EBRPD Police Department for 30 <br />years. He noted that Shadow Cliffs Regional Recreation area is not a high crime area, <br />and as ChiefNeal previously mentioned, any business or high schools within the <br />community would generate more calls for service than what is currently generated at the <br />water park. <br /> <br /> ChiefNeal mentioned that one of the issues raised was sexual offenses and child <br />predators. Chief Lapera pulled five years worth of data from Shadow Cliffs and none of <br />the offenses or police actions that Pleasanton Police Department were involved in <br />involved any type of sexual offense. <br /> <br /> Going back to the past four and a half years, Chief Lapera reported that EBRPD <br />police department had four incidents, none of which occurred at the water slide. The only <br />incident that the police department could halfway attribute to anything of a sexual nature <br />is an incident where a man was sitting on hillside looking through binoculars at the <br />women's dressing room, and officers responded. <br /> <br /> Mayor Pico asked if there was any concern related to spill over of crimes into the <br />neighborhoods as a result of a facility such as a water park? <br /> <br /> ChiefNeal said he had no concerns. Absent the traffic issue on Stanley <br />Boulevard and the noise complaints, he was not aware of any police issues related to <br />Shadow Cliffs for the greater community. <br /> <br /> Chief Lapera pointed out again that the water park has been in operation since <br />1971 and thousands of people visit the park each weekend day of the summer. There has <br />been no crime fi.om the park spilling out into the adjacent neighborhoods. He believed <br />that any opinions related to an increase in crime by adding more amenities within a <br />fenced area were speculative. Crime statistics for the water park and for the City of <br />Pleasanton do not support that opinion. <br /> <br /> Mayor Pico asked if there was any indication from the Concord Police <br />Department that there might have been any type of neighborhood crime as a direct result <br />of the water park? <br /> <br /> According to the Concord Chief of Police, Chief Lapera said there was no spill <br />over of crimes into the neighborhoods as a result of Waterwodd. He did read a letter <br />fi'om a gentleman that felt that people kicked out of the water park would somehow roam <br />the adjacent neighborhoods and go on a vandalism spree. He indicated that these <br />comments were not based on fact. Every single park that EBRPD operates is within a <br /> <br />Pleasanton City Council 22 03/16/04 <br />Minutes <br /> <br /> <br />