Tag: Youth

  • Filner Wants Students to Ride City Transit for Free

    By Kyla Calvert Mayoral candidate and Congressman Bob Filner believes San Diego Unified students should be able to ride the bus or trolley to school for free. He joined other candidates in offering some specifics on what he would do to improve city schools as mayor. A monthly youth pass for San Diego’s buses and trolleys costs $36. That…

  • 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…

  • 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.…