4/10/10 Downtown San Jose Patrol

We the San Jose Guardian Angels conducted a day patrol in downtown San Jose. This patrol was used to welcome a relocated member and show her our city. This member is (SIS) and she is an experienced Angel from Philly trained by DOC. Our medic today is LT. REN, he will lead the patrol. We are all in gear and ready to move out. Welcome to San Jose, SIS.

We did our usual patrol starting at Mission and 1st street down to St. John Park.

Nothing going on today at the park so we move on. We go down St. John to 4th, turn right and go up and down all the streets in between until we reach San Jose State University. We post up for a while as there are hundreds of people here for the California Census rally that was going on. Trucks full of people were throwing out t-shirts and hats. We wanted to make sure it was safe for everybody so we stay for a while observing and passing out fliers to recruit new members.

Next we march down 4th to San Salvador where we post up and explain to SIS why we are at this location and what we are looking for.

Now off to Reed and up to Market Street. We now hit the many alleys and empty parking lots where you never know what you will find.

Not much to find today, just beer bottles, whiskey bottles and trash. We cleaned up what we could and moved on down Market to San Antonio. There is the Star Wars convention going on across the street from us and we see some gang bangers in the park, so we post for awhile. As the bad guys move on, Sarge decides to see what SIS has in terms of Martial Arts and/or street fighting skills, so they work out a bit.

Good job SIS, we always continue our training in many areas of self defense and will continue to do so.

We arrive at our meeting place and debrief. We had a good patrol with no issues and a relocated member now familiar with one of many of our patrol areas.