Violence has been rampant on Belmont Beach; Long Beach city council holds meeting to discuss “bar curfew”.<\/a><\/p>\nCity Councilwoman Kristina Duggan spearheaded the proposal, which includes a temporary midnight curfew, enhanced enforcement against drunk driving, an assessment of the cost of re-establishing the Belmont Police Department, and stricter enforcement against public drinking and illegal street vending. She noted that she personally inspected Second Street last Friday evening (the 7th) and witnessed “at least 20 people” possessing opened bottles of alcohol within two hours, yet no one was penalized that night.<\/p>\n
Although Dugan believed that special measures should be taken to address the security issues on Second Street, she ultimately withdrew the curfew proposal due to the excessively long implementation time of such measures and the advocacy by several city councilors for a “citywide uniformity” of security policies rather than “regional handling.” Long Beach Police Chief Wally Hebeish stated that the matter would be reviewed further, but also emphasized that the decision to issue alcohol tickets should be made at the discretion of the officers on site.<\/p>\n
Long Beach Ward 1 Councillor Tunua Thrash-Ntuk stated, “We cannot address policing issues by district.” She pointed out that there have been 11 homicides in the North Ward this year, compared to only one case in the East Ward (including Belmont Street), and that the city’s overall security architecture should be considered.<\/p>\n
The city council unanimously passed a resolution requiring City Manager Tom Modica to report within 45 days whether additional police presence can be deployed during evening rush hours and the density of DUI and public drinking enforcement can be increased; and to report within 90 days how to strengthen the city\u2019s oversight of alcohol sales and tobacco businesses.<\/p>\n
However, four bars in Belmont that were originally open until 2 a.m. \u2013 Shannon’s Bayshore Saloon, Dogz Bar & Grill, Legends Restaurant & Sports Bar, and Panama Joe’s \u2013 have voluntarily closed earlier, before December 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents of Belmont Shore, California, have recently expressed strong concerns about deteriorating safety. On Tuesday evening (November 11),…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-54992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54992","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=54992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}