Category: Voices

  • 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…

  • Letter: Are Curfew Sweeps Worth Dividing the Community?

    By Diana Ross Diana Ross is the collaborative director for the Mid-City Community Advocacy Network. You can reach her at dross@midcitycan.org. Mid-City CAN knows that children’s safety is important. In 2009, we conducted 105 house meetings with more than 1,500 residents in 13 languages in City Heights. At these house meetings, we heard that message…

  • Crossing the Street in City Heights Might As Well Be a Sport

    Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Brian Myers Saynab Dahir jokes that she’s become a speedwalker, thanks to the quick signals at many City Heights intersections. But the resident and UC San Diego urban planning student points to a more serious problem for her and her neighbors. Post-war planning in the…

  • A Brief History of Mid-City Transit

    By Brian Myers   We asked the candidates for District 9 Monday how they would work to improve transit options for City Heights residents. Transit riders and community advocates say the neighborhood hasn’t gotten a fair shake from transportation authorities, who sliced the community in two with Interstate 15 in the 1990s. Above, Maria Cortez…

  • 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…