Category: Public Safety

  • Teens and Safety Series: Experiencing Violent Crime

    By Brian Myers In the final video of an eight part series on teens and safety in City Heights, Crawford High School students talk about the kinds of crimes they’ve witnessed. More than a third of the class said they’ve been a victim of or know someone who has been a victim of violent crime.…

  • Teens and Safety Series: Coming Forward to Talk About Violence

    By Brian Myers In the seventh video of an eight part series on teens and safety in City Heights, Crawford High School students discuss whether they feel comfortable reporting and talking about violence.  

  • 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…