Riding Shotgun with the San Carlos Police
The “Mean Streets” of San Carlos
If you want to see a side of San Carlos that most residents never hear about, just tag along with a police officer on a weekend evening.
Behind our tidy homes and bucolic lifestyle lurks the “mean streets” of San Carlos. The bad stuff usually begins when the sun goes down.
Often, there is so much high drama that you would swear it’s not the same town. Forget about the TV crime shows; the real-life stories are just outside your door.
Over and over, people have told me that “nothing much ever happens in San Carlos.”
Well, just stay up past 10 o’clock and see. Here is a thumbnail sketch of what I encountered when I rode shotgun with an officer for six hours one recent Friday night:
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