Category: Public Safety

  • Bullying Through the Eyes of Monroe Clark Middle School Students

    Students at Monroe Clark Middle School tracked bullying incidents in and around their school this spring. The yellow icons mark where an event occurred. Click on the icons for photos and captions. Click here to enlarge the map. | Credit: Susan Murphy By Susan Murphy Students at Monroe Clark Middle School in City Heights spent…

  • Youth Gather to End Violence in Their Neighborhoods

    By Erin Timony, Anais Bernard Oscar Perez, Trevor Seines and Dylan Rohn Youth from all over San Diego gathered at the Jacobs Center in southeast San Diego March 2 to discuss ways to improve their communities and prevent violence. The event was organized  the center’s Youth Movement Program and called on local teens to be expert…

  • Better Safe Than Sorry: Youth Discuss Curfew Sweeps

    By Erin Timony, Anais Bernard Oscar Perez, Trevor Seines and Dylan Rohn Once a month in City Heights, police sweep the neighborhood in search of underage kids who are in violation of San Diego’s 10 p.m. curfew. Their efforts have been celebrated by many in the community, who say curfew arrests keep kids out of…

  • San Diego’s Major Curfew Push: A Reader’s Guide

    No recent police initiative has received more praise from San Diego’s elected leaders than a program designed to swarm entire neighborhoods and arrest kids for breaking curfew. Police conduct monthly curfew sweeps across the city’s urban core, including City Heights, southeastern neighborhoods and parts of downtown, and have arrested more than 2,500 kids in the…

  • Pepper Spray Use Rampant At San Diego Juvenile Halls

    San Diego CityBeat reporter Dave Maass says San Diego County’s two juvenile halls used pepper spray 371 times in 2011. It was used 91 times in Los Angeles County’s three facilities in 2011. Maureen Cavanaugh, Katie Euphrat and Patty Lane California is one of only five states in the nation that allow staff at juvenile detention facilities…