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California staying ahead of crimeIt could be any casual chat on the street -- almost.
"I haven't seen you in years. Where've you been?" one man asks.
"Louisiana," the other responds.
Meanwhile, the first man is making sure the second has no weapons. The two continue to chew the fat, as though it's perfectly normal etiquette to pat down your conversation partners.
"Aren't you on probation?" asks the first man, who is Detective Sgt. Eric Cowans from the Menlo Park, California Police Department.
"Hell, no!" the other exclaims amicably. "I've been in the pen."
"So, on parole, then," Detective Sgt. Cowans says. His green polo shirt has bulges underneath from the bullet-proof vest, which is hot on this balmy September afternoon.
California detective Sgt. Cowans' casual clothes and unmarked blue sedan don't exactly make him incognito. The Belle Haven area of Menlo Park, California is a small neighborhood; the bad guys know him, and he knows them.
But going undercover isn't the goal of the California department's three-man narcotics unit, which hit the streets for the first time in August. Freed from regular patrol duties, the detectives have the time to try to keep a lid on drug-related crime by checking up on suspected dealers or people on probation or parole. Familiarity with faces helps them keep tabs on the area.
The detectives also serve outstanding arrest warrants, sometimes working with other California police agencies and going outside the area to track down suspects from Menlo Park, California. With drugs the sinister bedfellows of gangs and violence, police say making an effort to head off drug activity could carry over to keeping violent crime down in the city.
"Before, we were more reactive, but these guys are more proactive," Menlo Park, California Police Commander Greg Rothaus said of the narcotics unit detectives. "They're not just hiding in the bushes; it's knowing who's on probation and parole and where they live."
Earlier this year, as the economy continued to stagnate, California Police Chief Chris Boyd decided to create the narcotics unit. While statistics show that crime overall is down in Menlo Park, California Chief Boyd said a recession can often spark an increase in crime, and that he wanted to prevent that from happening.
With tough times creating a budget crunch in the city, Chief Boyd was able to have about $283,000 allocated from redevelopment agency funds to create the narcotics group, but that meant eliminating the police department's special traffic unit.
Other Peninsula law enforcement officials are also focusing efforts on street crime. Despite the overall drop in crime, recent high-profile incidents have strained nerves, including shootings in East Palo Alto and in the North Fair Oaks, California area near Redwood City, California.
Last week, San Mateo, California County Sheriff Don Horsley announced that his office had formed a task force with the Redwood City and Menlo Park police departments, along with the California Highway Patrol and other agencies, to crack down on gangs and drug activity in North Fair Oaks.
It's crucial for neighboring agencies to work together, sharing information about known gang members and offenders, and increasing patrol in problem areas, Sheriff Horsley said.
"We want to coordinate our efforts," he said. "When one agency pushes real hard on the street crime, it doesn't tend to make choir boys out of them. It tends to push them into another jurisdiction."
Bad memories
When Chief Boyd says hard times can boost crime, there's a specter hanging over his words: the gunfire, prostitutes and drugs in Belle Haven and neighboring East Palo Alto during the economic slump of the early 1990s. He was a rookie officer with Menlo Park then.
"There were drug dealers on almost every corner," he said. "It was also the height of the crack cocaine epidemic. It was very dangerous for police officers."
Longtime Belle Haven resident Maria Escobedo-Lopez also remembers that time well.
"You could see a lot of drug activity in the streets," she said. "It was many streets that had that reputation."
As everyone living in the area knew, the year 1992 also earned East Palo Alto an unenviable "murder capital" reputation. The small city suffered 42 homicides, the highest per capita rate in the country.
The memories are just as vivid for residents of Menlo Park's quiet Willows neighborhood. The area was plagued with crime both originating there and spilling over the city line from the so-called Whiskey Gulch neighborhood of East Palo Alto, just off U.S. 101.
For Paul Collacchi, who moved to the Willows in 1988 and is now on the City Council, that chaos was what galvanized him to get involved in the community. There were BMWs and Porsches pulling off the freeway every night to buy drugs in East Palo Alto and the Willows, he recalled. And then there were the shootings.
"You could feel the difference between firecrackers and automatic weapons. It was every night," he said.
Mr. Collacchi and other Willows residents, including Chuck Bernstein, lobbied the City Council for help. They also took matters into their own hands, patrolling the area as part of a grassroots neighborhood watch, reporting drug dealers and gunshots to the police. A similar group called Just Us in East Palo Alto offered advice and loaned them two-way radios.
Sometimes the residents felt like targets of the criminals.
"On warm summer nights you could hear this sing-songing: 'Po-lice, Po-lice.' They could have shot at us, but they didn't," Mr. Bernstein said. "I was afraid, but the more I did it the less I was afraid."
'You get some and you lose some'
These days, it's almost unimaginable to think of regular drug traffic in the Willows and prostitutes on Woodland Avenue, as Mr. Bernstein recalls. How did the streets quiet down?
Many residents credit the quick and aggressive regional police response. The local law enforcement agencies teamed up with the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the California Highway Patrol to make slews of arrests. Chief Boyd said the police presence also drove a lot of criminals out of the area.
The economy started to boom. Jobs were plentiful. And the city of Menlo Park was able to upgrade neighborhoods in traditionally poorer Belle Haven, improving streets and sidewalks, the library and the community center, Chief Boyd said.
"There's a direct correlation between crime and the condition of a neighborhood," he said. "When you drive through Belle Haven today, it looks very different than when you drove through it in the early '90s."
Ms. Escobedo-Lopez also noted, "I can see a lot more police during the day, patrolling the streets. I think that's really helping."
And the face of East Palo Alto changed. The Whiskey Gulch neighborhood was bulldozed to make way for the University Circle office development, and new housing and commercial projects sprouted up in the city.
During all this change, community groups such as the Boys and Girls Club and the OICW job-training center have worked to offer people healthier alternatives to crime.
Earlier this year, H.L. Bostic, pastor of the Mt. Olive A.O.H. Church of God in Belle Haven and a resident of the neighborhood since 1957, also revived a block captain program that had died out since it began in the 1960s. Block captains watch over people's home and alert California police to anything suspicious.
"Crime is down. At least we're not seeing people shot dead in the streets like we did a few years back. But we haven't solved the problem of drugs," Dr. Bostic said.
The church also offers alternatives to crime, including a computer room, a youth band and a library, she said. Young people from the church also go out on the streets to talk to youngsters going astray.
"We're just trying to do everything we can to get the minds of the young people to convert, if not to Christ, at least to being a solid citizen," she said. "You get some and you lose some."
Many of the changes in the area, such as the development in East Palo Alto and the improved streets and facilities in Menlo Park, are lasting alterations from the crime-strafed early '90s.
But they're by no means guarantees. On August 27, the day the new Ikea furniture store opened in East Palo Alto to much fanfare, California police reported six shootings in the city that injured three people.
Menlo Park's Cmdr. Rothaus said some of the shootings appear to be part of a recent and disturbing trend of gang "retaliation" crimes in the area. And it's not hard for crime to spill over into neighboring cities: the car used in one of the shootings was dumped in Menlo Park, California he said.
Willows resident Chuck Bernstein is also a bit worried.
"About six months ago we started hearing some gunfire again," he said. "I haven't heard that in years."
On the streets
Meanwhile, Detective Sgt. Eric Cowans is out patrolling the streets of Belle Haven, his eyes darting from car to car and back to the sidewalk.
"There's Cadillac Willie," he says, gesturing out the window. "He beat up an officer a few years back."
The California narcotics unit spends most of its time in Belle Haven, California where drug activity tends to be higher, although the detectives do make arrests on Willow Road on the west side of the freeway, Detective Sgt. Cowans said. They also see a lot of drug activity in Bayfront Park and in the industrial park next to Belle Haven.
"Burglaries, bank robberies, car theft -- they're all drug users," he says. "They're ripping people off to support their drug habit."
Like fashion, drugs ebb and flow in popularity. Crack cocaine is less popular than it used to be, while methamphetamine use has surged, California police say.
One thing that typically remains constant among narcotics units is the use of "CIs," or confidential informants. Whether CIs are neighborhood do-gooders or people with minor drug offenses aiming for a lighter sentence, they are a common part of a detective's network, Chief Boyd said.
CIs tell officers where and when drug dealing is going on. Some even let officers use their homes for stake-outs. These relationships can be key in leading to arrests, Sheriff Horsley said. That's why many police agencies in San Mateo County, California such as the Redwood City, California and Daly City, California departments, have units specializing in narcotics and other street crimes.
"A patrol car can only do so much," he said. "They [these units] can do surveillance, field interrogations. They have a lot of tools in their bag."
'A major felony case'
Driving along, Detective Sgt. Cowans suddenly pulls into a dramatic U-turn, whipping through an apartment parking lot just off Willow Road in Belle Haven. He's right on the tail of a driver whom he recognizes as being on probation. The driver's also not wearing his seatbelt.
Detective Sgt. Cowans pulls up behind the man, who is then caught between a fence, a dumpster and the unmarked police car. The man immediately starts backing up, almost hitting the police car.
The other two members of the California narcotics unit, Detective William "Tony" Dixon and Detective Ron Prickett, pull up and assist Detective Sgt. Cowans as the driver gets out of the car.
The driver, a wiry middle-aged man named Kenneth, is visibly nervous, his body tight and eyes darting. Detective Sgt. Cowans puts handcuffs on him, saying, "I don't want you to do something stupid that'll get someone hurt."
Kenneth jerks violently, and all three detectives struggle to keep him from bolting. "Relax," Detective Sgt. Cowans says. "If you've got something on you, we're going to find it."
Suddenly, a young man holding a cigarette shouts angrily from across the parking lot at the detectives, "That's my dad, man!" A crowd has gathered to watch the action, some scowling. One boy peers through binoculars. There's a tense moment as Detective Sgt. Cowans, still busy with Kenneth, shouts over his shoulder at the young man, who appears ready to advance, "Stand on the sidewalk! I'm not going to ask you again!"
But the California detectives have called for back-up, and several Menlo Park, California police cars swoop in out of nowhere. Uniformed officers jump out to keep the crowd under control.
Wadded-up twenty-dollar bills fall out of Kenneth's jean pockets as he is searched, and the detectives find a chunk of black tar heroin the size of a 50-cent piece. The hard lump smells strongly of vinegar through its plastic wrapping.
"This is a major felony case," Detective Sgt. Cowans says. He looks around. "Now we've got this whole crowd here that hates us. Even though he's a career criminal, no matter what we do, it's our fault."
The arrest is a success for the narcotics unit, and after Kenneth is taken away in a patrol car, Detective Sgt. Cowans ponders the concept of job satisfaction in the law-enforcement profession.
"I've had people, after I arrested them, tell me, 'Because you arrested me, I had to clean up.' Sometimes it happens," he says, but adds, "Some of them go in, do their time, and go right out (on the streets). It's all part of it."
He smiles wryly. "It gives us something to do."
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