Peace in the Northeast March
Ξ August 11th, 2008 | → | ∇ 90041, 90042, 90065, Glassell Park, Highland Park |
Our area has been getting a lot of bad press lately. Last week’s shooting of an off-duty Sheriff’s deputy in Cypress park may be the straw that broke the camel’s back. This Sunday, a gaggle of neighborhood acronyms and businesses are sponsoring the Peace in the Northeast Community March and Resource Fair. The organizers promise free food, a car show, some community services, and seeing as the media will be covering the event, the mayor and several other local politicos are scheduled to make the walk from the corner of York and Figueroa to the corner of York and Eagle Rock Blvd. If I may digress for a moment, you know what the city government can do to bring peace to our neighborhood? How about put more cops on the street and stop wasting money on oh say…book fairs in Jalisco, Mexico. (Scroll down this page a few articles for the story.) That $1.6 million could pay the annual salary of about 30 LAPD rookies.
Show up at 10, and be sure to email us some pictures.
on August 11th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
I am a teacher in this neighborhood and a resident. I am all for peace in the northeast but does anyone else feel like all the police do is harass our neighbors and abuse and humiliate our youth? We need to open up a dialogue with the police about how we want to be protected and differentiate what is acceptable policing and what is an abuse of power. Having more police on the streets harassing my students and my neighbors does not make me feel safer.
on August 18th, 2008 at 10:39 am
I agree with Ms. H. Also, that 1.6 million can go to improving the conditions of the local public schools curriculum and truly start implementing an ethnic studies program. As far as hiring more police, that just flat out absurd. More police, more crime. The community has to start taking an active role and support each other with pacifying violence in the neighborhood. The community should involve itself with hiring and firing police anyhow.