Year: 2012
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How We Analyzed Curfew Sweeps
By Keegan Kyle What’s a Curfew Sweep? One of San Diego’s most heralded crime fighting programs is often called a collaborative curfew sweep. Once or twice a month, police swarm inner-city neighborhoods and arrest minors out past 10 p.m. The kids are brought to a detention facility and connected with their parents and social services.…
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Hundreds of Kids Arrested on an Unproven Hunch
In March 2010, as teenagers roamed City Heights’ streets, a swarm of cops gathered at a nearby elementary school, checked their watches and prepared to strike. At 10 p.m., the cops spilled across the neighborhood and arrested every minor violating the city’s curfew law. When they ran out of handcuffs, police used plastic twisty ties. Police…
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Tweet City Heights: African Diaspora Reacts to ‘Kony2012’ Video
By Megan Burks Ugandans, African Diaspora React to Kony2012 Campaign Twitter, Facebook and comment boards were buzzing this week with reaction to a San Diego nonprofit’s viral video, “Kony2012.” The 30-minute video was the launch of Invisible Children’s web campaign to find and arrest Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army. Since the…
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City Heights Sees Few Ex-Offenders Under Realignment
By Megan Burks The San Diego County Probation Department is dealing with more former prison inmates than it expected to under realignment, the state’s effort to limit prison overcrowding by shifting some offenders into local custody. Under the new strategy, parolees who would have been supervised by the state are being watched by county probation…
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Preview: SD Latino Film Festival To Highlight Chicano Voices for First Time
Each year, the festival focuses on filmmakers from a single country abroad. But a lack of Latino faces on American television and movie screens spurred festival organizers to focus their lens closer to home this time. With Latinos making up the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population, their stories are wide-ranging and vital to understanding…