Human Trafficking Volunteer Task Force Comes To Long Beach

Today I participated in the Human Trafficking Volunteer Task Force. We went to three bars in District Two to see if they were in compliance with State Law that requires a poster with the trafficking hotline was prominently displayed by the front door where customers could see it. 

One out of three bars, Ferns on 4th Street, was already in compliance. The other two were willing to put up the posters pretty much on the spot.

Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery in which traffickers use force, fraud, or coercion to control victims for the purpose of engaging in commercial sex acts or labor services against his/her will.

Since the posters began going up, there have been a significant increase in calls to the Human Trafficking Hotline. The law requiring bars to display the poster was actually passed several years back. Fines for failing to display the poster are $500 for the first 30 days, and $1000 for each additional 30 days there after. 

The hotline which is: 1 (888) 373-7888 is staffed seven days a week. It is manned by volunteers who can field several different languages. The National Human Trafficking Resource Center coordinates the outreach efforts. Basically, outreach sends volunteers out to venues that are expected to comply with the law, speaks with the managers and owners of the venue about the law, provides the materials to be in compliance if needed and tracks their efforts for the District Attorney in case the venue refuses to comply.

Clean Up: 1501 Gaviota: 01/30/2016 8am

There is a clean up this Saturday at 1501 Gaviota, A dumpster will be available, Will be hosting a smaller on later at 12pm at Orange an 15th to cover Ester and the North end of Orange. Volunteers are welcome at both clean ups.

Wrigley Clean Up Chestnut 23rd to Burrnett: Neighborhood Expansion

Post Shared from Josephine A Villaseñor's:  Wrigley Community Watch Page: We did a small cleaned on Chestnut Ave between 23rd Street and Burnett. Picked up 32 gallons of Trash most of it was Cigarette ends, Business Cards, Broken Glass and some odd ends of Trash, even an used Condom! Eww, lol  Lots of people attended, go Thankful, people passing by gave us thumbs up, said Thank you, good job but all in all it was a good day. Cleaned up the broken glass so no one gets a flat tire. We will pick another part of the Community to Clean up. Wrigley Community Watch Leader Josie MacArthur Park Community Watch and Association Leader Shayne Michael — feeling cleaned up part of Wrigley Community at 6th District Vote for Josephine, Long Beach, CA.

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First Clean Up of 2015: Gundry PCH to 15th Done

This morning we had our first neighborhood clean up of 2016 along Gun dry from PCH to 15th is finished. I will say Gundry was very well kept. At least one alleyway looked very well maintained. We will get 15th to Anaheim soon and be partnering with Wrigley to clean Chestnut from 23rd heading towards Willow tomorrow at 8am.

Also, don't forget the City Wide Breakfast will be held at 1744 Gaviota, on 02/20/2016. All the neighborhood is invited. #SupportJosephine

Neighborhood Expansion: Watching Over Wrigley

Neighborhood Expansion is when this site/ MacArthur Park will be doing three things to look out for neighboring communities including: mapping crime trends, aiding in clean ups and doing Go Long Beach Runs for that neighborhood. As of today it moves from being a response This week MacArthur Park is keeping an eye on Wrigley in support of Josephine A Villaseñor and her Wrigley Community Watch Page.

This map shows some crime trends in the Wrigley area last week. We are focusing on South Wrigley, Central Wrigley and Wrigley Heights. We also included the other side of Pacific all the way to Atlantic, because that's where some of the trends begin.

Clearly there are a lot of thefts and robberies trending towards Veteran's Memorial Park. They seem to converge around 27th Street and Pine. Please keep an eye around the Park, Pine and on 27th Street. There were several incidents where the arrow converges on Sunday, so be extra vigilant over the weekend.

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It appears a trend of breaking and enterings is moving up Oregon Avenue towards Wrigley Heights. There is also a trend of thefts from cars and burglaries along Hill Street and Magnolia that moves East. A similar trend starts at Oregon and PCH and moves North East. So far, this week the map [from Sunday to Wednesday] looks good. But based on what I am seeing here the four places to keep your eyes on are Oregon Avenue, just south of Veteran's Memorial Park, Hill Street and PCH. 

There will be two more phases for this week's Neighborhood Expansion. Tomorrow, Josie and I will do a Go Long Beach Run and a Patrol through Wrigley. We will be cataloging all the tagging and dumped items for future reference. The tagging is a good clue of where things are about to go bad. This coming Sunday we will host a small clean up from 23rd Street and Chestnut, which will move up towards PCH. That clean up will begin at 8am. Everyone is welcome to join in. 

Next week, on Wednesday we start the same three steps that we did this week for Wrigley for another neighborhood, within District Six. #SupportJosephine

First Clean Up of 2015: Gundry and PCH to Gundry and Anaheim: 10/23/2016: 8am

Sunday Safety Watch 01/03/2016 to 01/16/2016

So, here's what's new. A Go Long Beach Run found increased tagging on 01/17/2016 in the west end of the neighborhood. There was very little to the east. Dumped items are also up. The blue line represents where that tagging emanates from. Keep an eye on the alleyway between Rose and Gaviota south of 15th. There was also a cluster of crime including drug possession and robberies. They start around Cherry and Anaheim and then trend east and north east. This is a cluster more than a trend, as the trend is week. There were also thefts just outside our neighborhood along Old Zaferiia Way that trend back into the neighborhood. Thefts from cars are on the rise, so please keep them locked in that area.

This is the map from this week. You will notice a cluster of assaults just inside our neighborhood along Old Zaceria Way. While nothing is happening in that Blue Circle, it's where virtually everything emanates from. You will also notice a trend of property damage along Walnut and Anaheim heading north towards Rose and 14th. That crosses the blue line in the previous map, which is where all the unreported tagging originates. There is also a trend of property crime just outside our neighborhood heading north west. Both maps show clusters along Old Zaferia Way, inside Rotary Centennial Park and along the South East corner of the neighborhood.

The latest Go Long Beach Run did see two cars exchanging drugs at around 12pm just outside of Rotary Centennial Park. Plates 6F58237/ 6HZU68B. Since a lot of new acticity in the area is drug related, and that leads to car theft, please keep an extra eye open in the area.

Neighborhood Expansion: There have also been shootings since the last update, but since these are outside the borders of our neighborhood, I will handle them in a separate update. However, below I am including a map of gang related tagging, so you see where the unreported tagging starts and which direction it trends.

This information comes from a new map which tracks dumping, tagging and encampments. You can find that map here. The graphics are weeks at a time, the map should show where things are clustering and overlay with the Crime Reports Map nicely. I am still working out the kinks now.

I will be working with Josephine Villaseñor to bring this kind of Map to the Wrigley area as well, while we expand the Community Watch for all of the Sixth District in the time to come.

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Introducing The Go Long Beach Run Map

In an effort to help police, Code Enforcement and community watch members, we are creating a map of our Go Long Beach Runs. This is for creating a running record of the tagging and dumping in the area. Gonna try to partner with Josephine A Villaseñor and do this for all of District Six. This is the first attempt, enlarge the map and it will show you where the gang related tagging, encampments and dumping is in the neighborhood. Doing this to make it easier for Community Watch Members to know where to keep their eyes on. I also created a graphic for this week to show you exactly what is happening and where. 

You will notice the dumping is largely around 14th street. And the tagging is largely around Gaviota, seemingly spreading out from the alleyway. What this tells me is if you live along Rose or Gaviota south of 15th, that alleyway needs to be watched. Also notice the trend along Orange and Alamitos of dumping. People tend to dump on that corner just south of Barcelona, and the tagging happens a lot on the East end of the street. All the minor tagging seems to radiate out from it, except for a street sweeping sign on Gundry, which was tagged much earlier.

Here is the ongoing map:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?hl=en_US&app=mp&mid=z-3IaZ6r2iPM.k5__YcbLgrRE

 The map will be expanded to include unreported crime and sidewalk damage soon.

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A Month Ago We Hosted A Clean Up

A month ago we hosted a clean up that brought out more than twenty four volunteers. Here are the very delayed pictures. Litter Free Long Beach also helped by bringing in a large crusher so we could empty the alleyways. 

My neighbors, who have said they didn't feel comfortable doing a clean up, all came out and helped clean up the alley behind the U-Haul Station. In all, we moved more than nine tons of trash, we filled the dumpster in about two hours and Litter Free Long Beach got a lot of old electronics out of our way, the stuff the dumpster couldn't take.

Since April we hosted more than fifty five clean ups. We submitted more than 800 Go Long Beach Requests. We helped over six neighborhood associations. We had more than 62 safety updates and participated in the Anaheim Re visioning Study. 

This year we're focusing on more community building, bringing better leadership to the Sixth District and  and shining an intense light on community safety by bringing Safe Passage to more neighborhood schools.

The trees have also been trimmed in virtually the entire neighborhood including MacArthur Park itself.  Updates will come to this site every day from this point on.  

Neighborhood Expansion returns tomorrow.