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Betty Oyama was tired of living in the Bermuda Triangle of neighborhoods.
A resident of Figueroa Terrace, a hilly street between Chinatown and Echo Park, Oyama had heard neighbors gripe about being transferred back and forth between the Central and Northeast police divisions whenever they tried to phone in a crime report.
The Police Department couldn't figure out where Figueroa Terrace and a pocket of neighboring streets were. Some local residents said they grew so frustrated that they stopped reporting the frequent auto thefts, assaults and carjackings.
After her parents were victims in a follow-home robbery a couple of years ago and it took police about five hours to arrive, Oyama decided that she had had enough. She began knocking on doors to rally residents to form a Neighborhood Watch group. And the name she selected for the group reflects the neighborhood: Forgotten Edge.
Today, as it nears its two-year anniversary,...
