Report on Police Community Meeting

"... Capt. Ehrlich, appearing along with Assistant District Attorney Pamela Hansen, police Capt. Kevin Cashman and police homicide investigator Lt. John Murphy, said he understood the concerns of the community but that crime is actually down statistically from last year.

He also pointed to three arrests in the Feb. 11 shooting of the 13-year-old girl as proof that some progress was being made. The shooting was one of at least five in a 24-hour time span that left two dead. According to Ehrlich, who was representing Park Station, those shootings were most likely gang-related. Lately, he said, a loose confederacy of smaller gangs calling themselves Uptown have been "at war" with Eddy Rock, an alleged street gang based in the Plaza East housing units."

From Fog City Journal