SACRAMENTO STREET IN E.P.A. TO BE RENAMED
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It was actually in the city of Fullerton in Orange County. Baker Street was changed to Iris Court to try to get rid of the gang problem. They wanted to name it Pansy Circle (after the flower)but feared that Baker Street would cause havoc. I'm about a mile and half from Iris Court and all the street signs get crossed out and the neighborhood gets plaqued up with Baker Street so the name change didn't solve a damn thing. So your quote about the gang stop claiming is false , those fools are still crazy as fuck and still posted up. I would never bother you fools on this board unless it's something about around my way that's false so that's why I posted, so don't trip you won't see me coming around here.
Public enemy No. 1: a streetPOLICE CHIEF VOWS TO CLEAN UP CUL-DE-SACBy Patrick MayMercury NewsWhile the justice system deals with accused cop-killer Alberto Alvarez, East Palo Alto Police Chief Ron Davis is going after his main accomplice:
The one-block-long cul-de-sac called Sacramento Street.
This gritty tenth of a mile is close to where police officer Richard May was gunned down the night of Jan. 7 after responding to a disturbance call at a nearby taqueria. It's where Alvarez, now being held without bond in San Mateo County Jail, was discovered hiding the next morning. And for over a decade, police say, it has served as an open-air drug bazaar for the Sac Street Gang, one of the city's three major crime groups and Alvarez's suspected crew.
Drawing on a variety of tools -- including a ``Most Wanted'' television show, stepped-up graffiti removal and temporary restraining orders pioneered 16 years ago by the city of San Jose -- Davis hopes to formalize plans this week to avenge May's slaying. Part of that effort features a crime-busting magic trick: He would like to make Sacramento Street disappear.
``We'll be asking the community about possibly changing the name of the street,'' Davis said in an interview. ``That way, you'd now belong to a gang named after a place that doesn't exist. We want to strip away their identity because there's power in identity.''
The clean-up campaign, which Davis says will target Sacramento Street and expand to other neighborhoods in this city of 32,000, really began during last spring's crime wave, perpetrated in part by Sac Street Gang members. Police stepped up their crime analysis, including a five-year homicide study, and began pin-mapping robberies and burglaries to better redeploy officers. They began immediately erasing gang graffiti and removing sneakers strung over telephone lines, an ``Open for Business'' sign among drug peddlers.
But it was May's slaying, and another incident shortly before it, that has supercharged the campaign, leaving Davis almost breathless as he runs down his battle plans. Shortly before the officer's death, gang members allegedly threatened at gunpoint a homeowner trying to put up a security camera. That, said the chief, put the Sac Street Gang ``at the top of our list. Threatening a community member who's trying to take affirmative action in a neighborhood -- and now shooting a police officer -- constitute a threat to our entire criminal justice system.''
Old problem
Despite the tough talk, a safer Sacramento Street won't be an easy fix. Former Police Chief Wes Bowling spent his entire decade as the city's top cop trying to clean it up. Bowling recently pointed out that the physical layout of the dead end -- with access limited and visitors easily monitored by rooftop lookouts -- makes Sac Street a safe harbor for the outlaws who rule it.
``We hear gunshots all the time, so I guess we're used to it,'' says Regina Wagner, 35, a secretary who has lived at the end of the block for 10 years. ``This street has had a 25-year history of drugs and gangs. They've been trying forever and ever to clean it up, but nothing ever happens.''
So Wagner and her neighbors have their routine: Come home, go inside, lock the doors and don't come out. Even Davis acknowledges that ``this is not first time we've tried to clean up Sac Street; these are entrenched problems that need long-term solutions.''
But there is an encouraging precedent for East Palo Alto's efforts, located 20 miles south in the Rocksprings neighborhood of San Jose. Ten years ago, the four-square-block area was described by one judge as a gang-infested ``urban war zone,'' where residents were ``prisoners in their own homes.'' The city of San Jose became one of the first communities in the nation to try a novel approach to taking back Rocksprings after traditional policing methods came up short.
The one-block-long cul-de-sac called Sacramento Street.
This gritty tenth of a mile is close to where police officer Richard May was gunned down the night of Jan. 7 after responding to a disturbance call at a nearby taqueria. It's where Alvarez, now being held without bond in San Mateo County Jail, was discovered hiding the next morning. And for over a decade, police say, it has served as an open-air drug bazaar for the Sac Street Gang, one of the city's three major crime groups and Alvarez's suspected crew.
Drawing on a variety of tools -- including a ``Most Wanted'' television show, stepped-up graffiti removal and temporary restraining orders pioneered 16 years ago by the city of San Jose -- Davis hopes to formalize plans this week to avenge May's slaying. Part of that effort features a crime-busting magic trick: He would like to make Sacramento Street disappear.
``We'll be asking the community about possibly changing the name of the street,'' Davis said in an interview. ``That way, you'd now belong to a gang named after a place that doesn't exist. We want to strip away their identity because there's power in identity.''
The clean-up campaign, which Davis says will target Sacramento Street and expand to other neighborhoods in this city of 32,000, really began during last spring's crime wave, perpetrated in part by Sac Street Gang members. Police stepped up their crime analysis, including a five-year homicide study, and began pin-mapping robberies and burglaries to better redeploy officers. They began immediately erasing gang graffiti and removing sneakers strung over telephone lines, an ``Open for Business'' sign among drug peddlers.
But it was May's slaying, and another incident shortly before it, that has supercharged the campaign, leaving Davis almost breathless as he runs down his battle plans. Shortly before the officer's death, gang members allegedly threatened at gunpoint a homeowner trying to put up a security camera. That, said the chief, put the Sac Street Gang ``at the top of our list. Threatening a community member who's trying to take affirmative action in a neighborhood -- and now shooting a police officer -- constitute a threat to our entire criminal justice system.''
Old problem
Despite the tough talk, a safer Sacramento Street won't be an easy fix. Former Police Chief Wes Bowling spent his entire decade as the city's top cop trying to clean it up. Bowling recently pointed out that the physical layout of the dead end -- with access limited and visitors easily monitored by rooftop lookouts -- makes Sac Street a safe harbor for the outlaws who rule it.
``We hear gunshots all the time, so I guess we're used to it,'' says Regina Wagner, 35, a secretary who has lived at the end of the block for 10 years. ``This street has had a 25-year history of drugs and gangs. They've been trying forever and ever to clean it up, but nothing ever happens.''
So Wagner and her neighbors have their routine: Come home, go inside, lock the doors and don't come out. Even Davis acknowledges that ``this is not first time we've tried to clean up Sac Street; these are entrenched problems that need long-term solutions.''
But there is an encouraging precedent for East Palo Alto's efforts, located 20 miles south in the Rocksprings neighborhood of San Jose. Ten years ago, the four-square-block area was described by one judge as a gang-infested ``urban war zone,'' where residents were ``prisoners in their own homes.'' The city of San Jose became one of the first communities in the nation to try a novel approach to taking back Rocksprings after traditional policing methods came up short.
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