While I find your advocacy of the homeless admirable (“Area\u2019s hungry, homeless see stepped-up relief,” May 7 Beacon, page 1), it seems to be interfering with the objectivity with which you have elected to report the news in our community. Specifically, while this week\u2019s edition of the Beacon chronicled \u2014 as front-page news \u2014 the plight of the homeless, it buried the brutal stabbing death of another transient, in the heart of our community, as a mere blurb on page 4. Indeed, this gloss-over of transient violence followed the Beacon\u2019s limited reporting of the recent attempted murder of a tourist at the hands of two transients. In that incident, two transients were convicted of the attempted murder of an Australian tourist. After beating the man unconscious, the two transients pushed him into a burning fire pit. Markedly absent from the Beacon\u2019s reporting of such unfathomable violence was the fact that the two felons were in fact transients who had purportedly become unhappy with the victim\u2019s presence on “their beach.” These unacceptable incidents, of course, follow a number of relatively recent acts of violence involving transients in our community. These incidents include, among others, the stabbing death of one transient, by another transient, at the base of the pier, the infamous police shooting of the transient who charged officers with a hunting knife and the transient stabbing of a local man, who in addition to being a native of the community, was an ex-lifeguard. Transient violence is an important issue in this community. We are a community flush with children. Rest assured, while I, and many in this community like me, are sympathetic to the many issues facing the homeless, our concern is a very distant second to the protection of our children. I find it deplorable that a substantial number of stay-at-home moms in Point Loma, very much including Ocean Beach and Point Loma Heights (the hill immediately above Ocean Beach) refuse to frequent Newport Avenue for purposes of shopping, purchasing a cup of coffee, or simply walking, because they are unwilling to subject themselves and our children to the more than likely encounter with an aggressive, bullying transient, or as my 4-year-old and I observed this past Saturday morning, a transient blowing snot out of his nose onto the sidewalk. Even I avoid a walk along Sunset Cliffs between the pier and Santa Cruz Street after dark. The simple fact is, this is our community. It makes me mad when I talk to other parents at Silver Gate Elementary School who are tired of transients holding our neighborhood hostage. Notions of political correctness make these parents wary of standing up. They hate the situation but they don\u2019t know what to do about it. Personally, I couldn\u2019t care less if the suggestion that expecting \u2014 nay, demanding \u2014 civility from all, including the homeless, is deemed insensitive. I do not care if “homeless advocates” wish to characterize me as selfish and boom that I should move to La Jolla. I don\u2019t think so. I\u2019m staying right here and I\u2019m calling the police. The time has arrived for the folks who are this community to take it back. We do not have to put up with senseless violence. If the transients are unable to control their clear thirst for violence, for whatever reason, then they need to be dealt with aggressively. That, as a community, is our job and our responsibility to our children. As to the Beacon, you do your job and start reporting the news with objectivity.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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