Tag: Curfew Sweeps

  • Tweet City Heights: Deciding How to Spend Surplus, Where to Plant Trees

    By Megan Burks Catching Up On Curfew Sweeps This week, we shared a report from Speak City Heights partner voiceofsandiego.org about the questionable growth of curfew sweeps in low-income neighborhoods. In areas such as southeast San Diego and City Heights, police have tripled curfew arrests without analyzing whether they deter juvenile crime or unnecessarily introduce…

  • Community Organizer Responds to Curfew Sweeps Investigation

    Above: Keegan Kyle discusses his investigation into curfew sweeps with Amita Sharma on KPBS Evening Edition. By Maureen Cavanaugh, Pat Finn, Amita Sharma and Claire Trageser Ramla Sahid, community organizer with Mid-City CAN, and Keegan Kyle of voiceofsandiego.org spoke with Maureen Cavanaugh on KPBS Midday Edition yesterday about the expansion of untested curfew sweeps in…

  • Video: Are Curfew Sweeps the Right Intervention for At-Risk Youth?

    Above, Speak City Heights video journalist Brian Myers shares the scene of a recent curfew sweep. He talks to volunteers and some of the teens they helped arrest Feb. 24. Most of those interviewed said the program is good for the community. But some interviews revealed teens are often arrested on their way home, sometimes…

  • Letter: Too Many Kids in Handcuffs

    By Diana Ross, Mid-City CAN Diana Ross is the collaborative director for the Mid-City Community Advocacy Network. You can reach her at dross@midcitycan.org. The data in Keegan Kyle’s curfew sweep story, “Hundreds of Kids Arrested on an Unproven Hunch,” raise two troubling issues. The first is a purely practical one: Why is San Diego spending…

  • Curfew Sweeps on Radio and TV

    By Keegan Kyle We published a big story yesterday about San Diego’s heralded curfew sweeps program. Our investigation challenges the long-held assertion that the sweeps are responsible for a recent drop in juvenile crime. You can check out the story and reader comments by clicking here, and learn even more about the story during breakfast, lunch…