BATTLEGROUND: Only three years ago, Lanark Park...
BATTLEGROUND: Only three years ago, Lanark Park was overrun with drug dealers. Its ball fields were deserted and nervous neighbors avoided it. “It was a graveyard,” LAPD Officer George Aguilar recalls. . . . Today, the park in Canoga Park has been cleaned up but remains a battleground as Los Angeles City Councilwoman Joy Picus and former Picus aide Laura Chick, candidates in the 3rd District City Council race, struggle to prove each is the toughest crime-fighter in the Valley (B1).
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