Mailbag

Metrolink station needs security

There is a growing need for cameras at the Metrolink station in Glendale. I personally had my tags removed from my car and know of another person who works for the Office of the County Counsel having their tags stolen twice and a doctor at USC having his catalytic converter stolen — during daylight hours at the Glendale Metrolink station.

With the current status of the economy, I believe that crime will increase and not decrease.

The city of Moorpark has installed several federally funded cameras in its Metrolink parking lots connected directly to its police department.

Knowing that Glendale prides itself on safety, I’m sure it can follow suit and have video cameras installed at its Metrolink station. Better safe than sorry.

PATRICIA REMICK

Glendale

Maybe low turnout means low crime

Carole Weling opines in her letter published Saturday (“Police committees need outsider’s eye,” Mailbag) that the low public turnout at the Community Police Partnership Advisory Committee is due to the fact that the members of this committee and the Police Advisory Council are appointed by Police Chief Randy Adams. She insults these community volunteers as “toadies” and “sycophants.”

I would suggest that perhaps the reason the turnout is low is because the Police Department, under the leadership of Adams, is doing an effective job in an increasingly complicated city. Although understaffed compared with neighboring cities, the Glendale Police Department continues to keep the crime rate low and residents safe.

DAN WATSON

Glendale

Population control will help ‘go green’

The clergy members contributing answers to last weekend’s In Theory question (“Ecologically friendly ways,” Saturday) on what ways religions can “go green” failed to emphasize the most fundamental issue threatening the planet and all creatures on it: human overpopulation.

With 6.7 billion humans struggling to survive, there are chronic scarcities of water, food and space. This results in untold human, animal and ecological suffering. The role of some religions in this ongoing planetary tragedy is quite clear.