Year: 2012

  • Teens and Safety Series: Interactions With Police

    By Brian Myers In the sixth video of an eight part series on teens and safety in City Heights, Crawford High School students talk about their own experiences interacting with police.  

  • The Big Flaw in the Chief’s Crime Warning

    For years, San Diego police have been touting falling crime rates alongside their efforts to become a more efficient agency. But now, after a few months of rising crime, police say they need more money or crime will spike. It’s no small request from the cash-strapped city of San Diego. Police want an additional $66 million…

  • Police Chief: Crime Will Rise

    Crime is rising and will continue to climb unless the Police Department gets more funding, San Diego’s top cop warned a City Council committee Wednesday. The comments came as the committee considered a $66 million plan to rebuild the Police Department over the next five years. Police want to hire more cops and civilian staff, buy new…

  • Cops: Proactive Policing’s Taken a Hit

    By Keegan Kyle A year ago, the San Diego Police Department’s top brass pushed against an article I wrote about the city’s new policing strategy. I found the department had gradually shifted away from the proactive, problem-solving concept that gained international acclaim in the 1990s. San Diego’s cops were spending much more time reacting to crimes…

  • Teens and Safety Series: Racial Profiling

    By Brian Myers In the fifth video of an eight part series on teens and safety in City Heights, Crawford High School students say racial profiling by police officers is common in City Heights.