Tag: Public Safety

  • San Diego Unified’s Discipline Plan Exists – On a Shelf

    By Mario Koran The San Diego Unified School District disciplines black and Latino students more often and more harshly than other students, and “has been diligently working on addressing disproportionate suspensions rates” for years, said R. Vernon Moore, the district’s executive director of student services. Moore emailed me in response to this story highlighting racial…

  • SD Unified’s Lopsided Suspensions Ratio

    By Mario Koran When Daniel Noriega was in the elementary school he cussed at teachers, he refused to do his work and he was sent home. Again and again. Between the sixth and eighth grades, Noriega, who’s now a sophomore at E3 Civic High, was suspended about two dozen times by his count. One teacher…

  • What’s Behind San Diego’s Gang Problem?

    By Megan Burks Local street gangs are growing and getting harder to police, according to officials from nine out of 11 law enforcement agencies who spoke to SANDAG for a study released this week. A possible reason, they said, is the state’s prison realignment effort, which shortens sentences for low-level offenders and relies more heavily on local jails…

  • How the Next Mayor Plans to Fix Emergency Response Time Disparities

    By Liam Dillon San Diego’s three mayoral candidates agree. Disparities in emergency response times across neighborhoods must end. “It is the city’s moral obligation to provide equitable emergency services to every community,” City Councilman Kevin Faulconer says in his neighborhoods plan. Broadly, Faulconer, City Councilman David Alvarez and former Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher agree on the…

  • Islamophobia Declining, But Still Potent

    CAIR Map detailing anti-Islamic legislation. | Photo Credit: Jill Replogle By Jill Replogle A national Islamic civil rights group says it’s noted a “small, but highly welcome” decrease in discrimination against American Muslims and actions designed to create fear of Islam. But it also found dozens of examples of legislation it considers anti-Islamic and more…