On Friday’s Z107.7 Up Close Show, host Gary Daigneault spoke with Twentynine Palms outgoing Mayor MacArthur Wright and interim City Manager Larry Bowden.
Daigneault asked about how the city has prioritized safety this year:
MacArthur Wright:
“Citizens are concerned with safety. So one of the things that we did to help that instead of getting another deputy, we actually asked the sheriff department to give us another detective because our one detective was getting backlogged as far as trying to solve crimes and stuff like that. So now we have two, so hopefully that will give them an opportunity to solve a lot more crime and then it also allows our actual deputies to stay out on the street where they need to be.”
Larry Bowden:
“Captain spoke with us, told us what it could do for us and the council agreed that it would be an asset, so they put that extra money forward.”
To hear the full conversation, you can listen to the Up Close Show as a podcast or below:
