Category: Featured
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Developing the Boulevard: What the Candidates for District 9 Say
By Megan Burks Last week, we asked the candidates for City Council District 9 how they would ensure development keeps pace in City Heights despite the end of redevelopment agencies. This time, we wanted to know what kinds of development should be prioritized, especially along El Cajon Boulevard. The boulevard has been undergoing a steady…
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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…