{"id":323096,"date":"2025-10-22T06:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/323096\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T06:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:02:11","slug":"denver-heights-residents-discuss-public-safety-concerns-with-city-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/323096\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Heights residents discuss public safety concerns with city officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>SAN ANTONIO<\/strong> \u2013 Denver Heights residents met with the City of San Antonio\u2019s Integrated Community Safety Office (ICSO) on Tuesday to discuss public safety concerns in their neighborhood. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">City officials say the top 911 calls in Denver Heights are hang-up calls, requests for an officer to patrol by or general disturbance calls. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Residents at Tuesday\u2019s meeting said the main issues they see in their community are loose and dangerous dogs on the streets. They also voiced concerns about officers\u2019 response times to calls and sidewalk repairs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Maria Vargas, the director of ICSO, said the meetings are helpful for her team to hear residents\u2019 concerns and compare with the city\u2019s data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cYou would expect what they tell me here, what their No. 1 (concern) should match the No. 1 in the call data &#8230; but what we saw today was different,\u201d Vargas said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Vargas said dangerous dog calls were ranked lower on the list of calls for service in Denver Heights. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cThis helps us to say, like they communicated, people don\u2019t call about stray dogs anymore, and so the city should try to encourage residents to make those calls and try to explain how they are taken care of back at 311 or with Animal Care Services,\u201d Vargas said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Good Neighbor engagement events are hosted by ICSO throughout San Antonio to connect with the community. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The next meeting in Denver Heights will be at 6 p.m. on Jan. 20. City officials plan to host more meetings in different communities throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">See the full list of ICSO\u2019s community safety events <a href=\"https:\/\/saspeakup.com\/m46320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/saspeakup.com\/m46320\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>Read also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 kDvXdO font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/>\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/><\/ul>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 Denver Heights residents met with the City of San Antonio\u2019s Integrated Community Safety Office (ICSO)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":323097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,9492,9734,9489,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-323096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-denver-heights","10":"tag-east-side","11":"tag-know-my-neighborhood","12":"tag-san-antonio","13":"tag-sanantonio","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115416305365772930","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}