Tucson’s Safe City initiative aims to link people to help. Arrests still drive the strategy
Tamara Ceaikovski
Officer Frank Oviedo pulled up next to the parking lot of a Speedy Cash on the corner of Grant and Alvernon. Five people sat cross-legged on the asphalt, the youngest crying as officers asked basic questions and wrote their names on white notepads. “You’re driving around looking for instances where people can be contacted, like ‘oh, this person might be trespassing’ or ‘this person looks like they’re using drugs,’ and then you stop,” Oviedo said. The five were being arrested for trespassing and
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