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First and foremost, Sanchez said that Santa Barbara’s incidence of violent crime dropped to a 26-year low in 2011, down 15 percent from the year before and 25 percent from the year before that. No murders, he said, took place in Santa Barbara last year. It was a far cry from the president’s State of the Union address, but for Santa Barbara’s embattled Police Chief Cam Sanchez, it was the next best thing. While property crime was up by 2 percent over the previous year, Sanchez said it was still 7 percent lower than in 2009. Sanchez attributed part of that rise to L. A. -based burglary crews that had been targeting private vacation-rental properties. For the first time in years, the department is now up to full staffing, with 141 sworn-officer positions authorized in the budget and 141 cops on the job. While vacancies remain in the dispatch center, Sanchez said progress has been made. For about 30 minutes, Sanchez delivered an upbeat and enthusiastic recitation of the considerable good news taking place in his neck of the law-enforcement world.

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