{"id":448795,"date":"2026-08-31T12:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/448795\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T12:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:18:14","slug":"san-diego-police-ramp-up-enforcement-in-the-gaslamp-quarter-starting-this-weekend-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/448795\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Police ramp up enforcement in the Gaslamp Quarter starting this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO \u2014 A crackdown on violence and rowdy behavior is underway, as the San Diego Police Department began a new enforcement effort, dubbed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs8.com\/article\/news\/local\/san-diego-police-gaslamp-violence-operation-last-call\/509-dcef7304-ce25-4c8b-bd43-d393bb99792e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">&#8220;Operation Last Call<\/a>,&#8221; in the Gaslamp Quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>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>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbs8.com\/assets\/shared-images\/icons\/arrow-circle-down.svg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                This story continues below.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Police say disorderly conduct cases in the Gaslamp last year were three times higher than in Pacific Beach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The operation adds up to 25 extra officers to the Gaslamp.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#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.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO \u2014 A crackdown on violence and rowdy behavior is underway, as the San Diego Police Department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-448795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","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\/448795","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=448795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}