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LACP's
Sponsors and Affiliates
please support us by supporting them . . .
Los Angeles Community Policing encourages you to consider supporting
our new sponsors, the first we've ever had. These are business folk
who have expressed a desire and a willingness to support LACP and
our work.
We'll add to this list as time goes on, and assure you of the finest
quality control in the products and services offered on the LACP
website.
New
LACP partners - our Sponsors
( the sponsors and affiliates page )
Who,
What, Why, How we do this
( the individual contribution page )
I
thought I'd take this opportunity to show you a sample letter I'd
sent out recently, by way of explanation of what we do, why we do
it, and how the advocacy for better public safety and improving
the quality of life (and the maintenance of our website) is accomplished.
Some readers seem to be under the misunderstanding that we are a
part of the LAPD and / or City system ... which of course we're
not. Everyone who participates is a volunteer.
Here's what I wrote recently to a person who loved the website and
found it very useful. She'd asked if we were a part of LAPD or the
City, and wondered how they funded us:
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Subj: LA Community Policing is a grassroots effort, and not
a part of the LAPD
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Los Angeles Community Policing
a grassroots 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization
Website address: http://www.LACP.org
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Dear
Neighbor:
I am delighted you have found the website useful and easy
to use, and hope you'll visit often. Please feel free to tell
others about our work.
We're followed by an avid group of people. At last count about
30,000 a month read the website alone, including community
members, law enforcement officers and government officials.
You'll often see us participating at public meetings, educating
ourselves, staying informed and encouraging others to lend
a hand in making Los Angeles "the safest big City in
America."
But we at Los Angeles Community Policing are a volunteer grassroots
group, independent from any law enforcement agency, as well
as from the government.
The LACP website (www.LACP.org) is a grassroots community
effort too, and I am the webmaster.
We cooperate fully with LAPD, the LA County Sheriff, the local
police union, the Mayor, the City Council and many others,
but this effort is not supported either financially or in
any other way by any of them.
We receive no funding.
To do this we've recently set up LACP as a nonprofit corporation,
and are actively engaged in finding sponsors, individual and
corporate, who can help us continue the work we're doing.
We'll also be applying for foundation grants (a long process).
It is our desire that we remain grassroots and free from even
the suggestion of any impropriety, as we continuously appeal
for the community to contribute letters, articles, calendar
items, etc.
This is YOUR grassroots community group, and LACP.org is YOUR
website.
In this sense we are part of the new "free press" movement
that has come about because of the Internet.
We believe there are many valid points of view, and that the
dialogue and sharing about community policing is, in itself,
of tremendous value.
To that end I'd like to suggest you feel free to send a "Letter
to the Editor" or an article at any time through the website.
Perhaps your point of view will be noticed and considered
by those who CAN put your suggestions into effect.
Thank you again for participating at LACP. We look forward
to your contributions in the future.
Yours in service,
Bill Murray
LA Community Policing
323 / 225-6393
Website address:
http://www.LACP.org
"Community Policing ... it's everyone's issue"
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