For the first time, owners of vehicles apprehended in nighttime disturbances on Abraham Lincoln Avenue will be prosecuted. According to Roxana Reyes, head of the District Attorney’s complaints and conciliation office, vehicles belonging to three adolescents have been impounded. Its alleged that the three are representative of the huge, informal groupings of noisy and disorderly youths who throng Lincoln Avenue each evening. For some years past, the busy north-south thoroughfare has attracted double- and even triple-parked cars from whose trunks alcohol is dispensed, and from whose radios music blares at intolerable volume. Residents along the avenue and adjacent streets have complained of the noise and litter, as well as "indecent acts" committed openly, the discharging of pistols, and the revving of motors preliminary to high-speed races along the avenue. Nelson Rosario Guerrero, police spokesman, denied that police have been "soft" on the responsible young people because they appear to come from affluent families. He said that the police are carrying out "a conscientious investigation." Nevertheless, the newspaper El Siglo noted that "police sweeps," in which scores of "suspects" are rounded up, is common practice in poor neighborhoods.
