Safe and unsafe in Boyle Heights

Boyle Heights Beat reporter Charley Patino profiles community-driven and law enforcement efforts to reduce violence, both of which take responsibility for recent drops in homicide and street violence in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. Check out the 'Safe and Unsafe Areas' map that BHB youth reporters created, based on interviews with Boyle Heights residents. En Español.BOYLE HEIGHTS BEAT is a new a bilingual community newspaper produced by its youth – por y para la comunidad - published by the USC Annenberg School of Journalism and La Opinión.