Public Safety

Prior to Friday’s fatality, the last know pedestrian death involving a vehicle in the city is believed to have also been along Ramon Road.

The return of the bike beat is one of several efforts underway to deal with a spike in crime related to a rise in the city’s homeless population.

Two Palm Springs officers were present in the early morning hours of April 23, 2021 when a bounty hunter, Fabian Hector Herrera, shot and killed 33-year-old David Spann in the condominium he lived in off East Villa Escuela.

A witness reported hearing sounds of a collision and seeing a small, dark-colored, two-door car leave the area westbound. Authorities said the suspect vehicle is believed to be a newer Honda Civic.

The incident was the second fatality on city streets this month involving a suspected drunk driver. A crash around 1:30 a.m. July 3 on Highway 111 north of Gateway Drive in Palm Springs claimed the life of a Gardena man.

Can we the people step in to solve the issues around deaths involving guns where politicians on both sides of the aisle have failed? That’s the premise of exhaustive work being done in Palm Springs.

The crash occurred around 1:30 a.m. July 3 on Highway 111 north of Gateway Drive in Palm Springs, according to authorities.

In light of the hundreds of mass shootings in the nation each year, PSPD is one of many departments that had to re-evaluate their public safety plans.

Are more armed officers the answer to combating a rise in crime, particularly among the city’s unhoused population? The city is about to find out.

The driver of the suspect vehicle was identified as a 34-year-old Whitewater man with a previous out-of-state DUI arrest.

In a blog post this week, Palm Springs Police Chief Andy Mills called for police chiefs and sheriffs to demand all officers “face real-life, sensory overload scenarios.”