[LB Ministers Alliance release text] North Long Beach churches, businesses, community groups and neighbors will join the Long Beach Ministers Alliance Tuesday night for weekly Night Walks in an effort to curb crime in neighborhoods and build community strength. [LBREPORT.com note and comment: On September 2 and 9, 2014 the City Council voted -- without dissent -- to approve a FY15 budget recommended by Mayor Garcia that ended funding for LBPD's former 22-member field anti-gang unit. Mayor Garcia didn't mention this at an Oct. 23 event at which he touted actions during his first 100 days in office. Mayor Foster proposed the action in Aug. 2012 (FY13); the Council instead cut the field anti-gang unit in half in Sept. 2012 using "one time funding." In Sept. 2013 (FY14), the Council quietly let the field anti-gang unit shrink to single digits (taken from patrol) and in Sept. 2014 (FY15 budget), the Council voted to eliminate the field anti-gang unit entirely. An internal LBPD gang unit remains. blog comments powered by Disqus
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