Last night, my neighbors & staff partners Mark Yim and Maite Rodriguez and I went to the Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council meeting. We initially went to the wrong place, thinking the meeting was in the Roybal office on 1st Street. There was another meeting to introduce the District 14 Mural Project. We met Lui Sanchez, the program director from the Center for Arts in Eagle Rock, who will be directing the effort to preserve several murals that are in danger of being eliminated.We finally made it over to the Boyle Heights Senior Center. There were over 60 people in attendance, including board members from each of the 4 quadrants in Boyle Heights, the Council officers, community police officers, representatives from District 14, and from Lucille Roybal-Allards office, as well as residents from the neighborhood.The meeting was informative on many levels. One report given by the police really stood out. He reported that for this year, 32 violent crimes had been committed in Boyle Heights, as well as 20 homocides. While that number was lower than in years past (34 for mid-point of 2003), that is a lot of homocides for a small geogrpahic area like Boyle Heights. Also, over 91 arrests had been made, including 34 felony arrests. The interesting thing was, of those 34 felony arrests - 24 were made on Sundays!!