AltWeeklies Wire
Santa Cruz Pins Crime Fighting Hopes on Pogonip Pathnew

Santa Cruz leaders are hoping a bike path through the heroin and meth dealing nexus of the Pogonip park will clean up crime. Experts say otherwise.
Good Times Santa Cruz |
Curtis Cartier |
08-03-2010 |
Crime & Justice
In Santa Cruz, Anarchists of All Stripesnew

In the wake of the May 1 riot in Santa Cruz, Curtis Cartier asks: Are there good anarchists and bad anarchists?
Good Times Santa Cruz |
Curtis Cartier |
05-11-2010 |
Crime & Justice
Using Soccer to Help Juvenile Offenders in Santa Cruz Countynew

For the last four years, Gina Castaneda has been a deputy probation officer for Santa Cruz County, working with juvenile offenders who live in the Watsonville area. Her soccer team is made up of a small handful of the 400 youths currently on, or at least in contact with, county probation, some of them from rival gangs.
Good Times Santa Cruz |
Jessica Lussenhop |
11-11-2009 |
Crime & Justice
Santa Cruz Elder Abuse Case Goes Nationalnew
Last week, Congress heard James "Pops" Lee's story in a short documentary film prepared by the Elder Justice Now campaign, a partnership of the National Council on Aging and WITNESS, a human rights video documentary group, in an effort to push the passage of the so-called Elder Abuse Justice Act
Good Times Santa Cruz |
Jessica Lussenhop |
11-02-2009 |
Crime & Justice
In California, Advocates Push for Reform of Parole Process to Ease Prison Strainnew

California's Board of Parole Hearings grants parole to less than one percent of eligible lifers. Now, as the state's prison system is packed to 200 percent capacity, some are arguing for reform to the parole system that's keeping lifers doing life.
Good Times Santa Cruz |
Curtis Cartier |
08-20-2009 |
Crime & Justice