Category: Public Safety

  • ICE Announces Change To ‘Secure Communities’ Deportation Policy

    By Adrian Florido Under a new federal policy, undocumented immigrants arrested for minor traffic violations may not be immediately flagged for deportation. On Friday, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, or ICE, announced a change to its “Secure Communities” program, under which federal immigration agents partner with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and local law enforcement to identify and…

  • Police Gathering Curfew Stats, But Not the Key Ones

    The San Diego Police Department has begun compiling thousands of documents in an effort to better understand its curfew sweeps, a major initiative aimed at cutting crime among kids younger than 18. But this new effort still won’t an answer a major question about the program’s overall effectiveness. Police won’t know whether the sweeps have…

  • Family-Friendly Movies Light Up Neighborhood Parks

    By Brian Myers As the sun set on the chilly evening of March 23, families from the surrounding neighborhood walked with snacks and blankets to Teralta Park. They met their neighbors and settled in to watch a family-friendly movie outdoors. This screening was the first in a series of movies movie nights at City Heights…

  • Is Prison Realignment Working?

    Above: Margaret Dooley-Sammuli from the ACLU and Chief Mack Jenkins, head of the San Diego County Probation Department, speak to Evening Edition about the realignment program. By Beth Accomando, Adriana Alcaraz and Erik Anderson It’s been six months since California started shifting low-level prison inmates and funding from state to county jails, and a new report from the…

  • Readers Debate Curfew Sweeps

    By Keegan Kyle My story last week about San Diego’s increased use of curfew sweeps stirred a passionate discussion. Proponents have long said the sweeps are responsible for a recent drop in juvenile crime, but our analysis of five years of crime trends questions whether that’s true. Places without the sweeps have reported equal or greater…