Category: News

  • 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…

  • Tweet City Heights: State Suspends Some Open Meeting Requirements

    By Megan Burks State Suspends Some Open Meeting Requirements In an effort to save $96 million, state legislators suspended funding for certain provisions of the Brown Act, the state’s open meeting law. Under the law, public entities must notify their constituents of meetings 72 hours in advance and disclose decisions made in closed sessions. The…

  • Extra Swim Class at YMCA Becomes Gender, Immigrant Issue

    Dr. Adina Batnitzky, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of San Diego, addresses reader comments that call a women-only swim class at the Copley YMCA discrimination and wrongheaded. By Megan Burke, Maureen Cavanaugh, Peggy Pico and Claire Trageser Click here to listen to an extended interview with Adina Batnitzky, Andrea Freeman and Megan…