{"id":448709,"date":"2026-08-31T09:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/448709\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T09:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:02:19","slug":"san-diego-police-ramp-up-enforcement-in-the-gaslamp-quarter-starting-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/448709\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Police ramp up enforcement in the Gaslamp Quarter starting this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A crackdown on violence and rowdy behavior is underway, as the San Diego Police Department began a new enforcement effort, dubbed <a data-ylk=\"slk:&quot;Operation Last Call;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs8.com\/article\/news\/local\/san-diego-police-gaslamp-violence-operation-last-call\/509-dcef7304-ce25-4c8b-bd43-d393bb99792e\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Operation Last Call<\/a>,&#8221; in the Gaslamp Quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SDPD started increasing patrols Friday night, in response to a series of violent incidents involving large crowds. The decision follows several confrontations where officers were forced to use pepper spray to disperse unruly groups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say disorderly conduct cases in the Gaslamp last year were three times higher than in Pacific Beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The operation adds up to 25 extra officers to the Gaslamp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve had three knives pulled on me, I&#8217;ve had a pickaxe come at me, which is just crazy. Then, about two months ago, we had a woman who was coming down the market and she was just belligerent. She spit on us, she spit on our merchandise, she ended up being tackled; it just so happened to be that a police officer was coming by when she was trying to assault us. And it was great, I was so thankful that someone was there, because there are so many times where they&#8217;re not,&#8221; Jara McConnell, an artist at the Gaslamp&#8217;s weekend artisan market, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crackdown on violence and rowdy behavior is underway, as the San Diego Police Department began a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3317,42934,177638,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-448709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-friday-night","tag-gaslamp","tag-jara-mcconnell","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}