Sentence examples for injunction zone from inspiring English sources

On West Street in North Oakland, a short residential block within the borders of Oakland's gang injunction zone, a bloodstain marks a spot on the sidewalk where a woman was killed last month in a drive-by shooting.

While City Attorney John Russo has moved forward with plans for a second injunction zone, some residents on West Street, who have seen little change, seem resigned to the violence.

Others on the mountain saw less reason for celebration: "The fact that Kinder Morgan was denied an extension on an injunction against the people is not even a victory, but a small stepping stone," responded 18-year-old Jakub Markiewicz, who pinned himself under a Kinder Morgan truck, spent five days in a tree, and was finally carried out of the injunction zone in stretcher-like RCMP restraints.

That case involved just four square blocks in San Jose, within which none of the gang members lived, but increasingly, gang injunction "safety zones" have incorporated larger swaths of cities and towns.

Twenty-eight demonstrators were arrested sitting outside of Kinder Morgan's Vancouver worksite on Saturday only days after a court-ordered injunction created an indefinite five metre "exclusion-zone" around the Burnaby Mountain worksite.

Her spokeswoman, Sue Piper, said the mayor continued to support the injunctions but objected to the size of the zone boundaries and the number of people who might be affected.

They say that the facts speak for themselves: Violent crime went down 21% in a Fullerton "safety zone"; aggravated assault went down 29% in an Orange injunction area after the rules were imposed.

In the six months since the injunction was put in place, shootings and killings within the 100-block "safety zone" have doubled over the corresponding period a year ago.