Tag: Restorative Justice

  • 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…

  • How We Analyzed Curfew Sweeps

    By Keegan Kyle What’s a Curfew Sweep? One of San Diego’s most heralded crime fighting programs is often called a collaborative curfew sweep. Once or twice a month, police swarm inner-city neighborhoods and arrest minors out past 10 p.m. The kids are brought to a detention facility and connected with their parents and social services.…

  • Hundreds of Kids Arrested on an Unproven Hunch

    In March 2010, as teenagers roamed City Heights’ streets, a swarm of cops gathered at a nearby elementary school, checked their watches and prepared to strike. At 10 p.m., the cops spilled across the neighborhood and arrested every minor violating the city’s curfew law. When they ran out of handcuffs, police used plastic twisty ties. Police…

  • Field Guide: Looking at Public Safety

    By Megan Burks [Editor’s Note: Field Guide is a weekly email bringing you the news, explainers and action items needed to navigate your changing community. Click here to subscribe.] FIELD GUIDE TOOLBOX Violent Crimes by Neighborhood (2011) Azalea/Hollywood – 11 Castle – 48 Cherokee Point – 28 Chollas Creek – 16 Colina Del Sol –…