loitering

He says he’s improved his locks, put in cameras and even offered soft drinks to kids loitering outside in a bid to win them over.

The law is intended to allow property owners to seek rebates for expenses, such as security bars, if they can show they were harmed by a failure to enforce laws against loitering, panhandling, camping and public drinking.

“The retailers’ incentive to push the tough-on-crime measures is that they’re seeing declines in sales, and a way to say to customers, ‘Come on back,’ is to say, ‘We’ve done something about retail theft or people loitering outside using drugs,’ ” she said.

Primavera Baltazar, who is incarcerated in Texas for an unrelated case, alleged that in the early 1990s Batanero and another deputy — former Sheriff Alex Villanueva — pulled up on a group of teens in Belvedere Park and assaulted them for loitering, one of them allegedly kicking a pregnant teen in the process.

In a short emailed comment to The Times, Villanueva said Baltazar had been arrested for burglary and not loitering, and that the allegations against him were “demonstrably false, defamatory” claims relying on “false allegations made recently regarding events from thirty years ago that will never see the light of day in a courtroom.”