Your email came in at 8pm on a Friday. It's possible people are out of town
or just not keeping up with their email over the weekend. Or we just don't
know how to respond.
If that house gets broken into so much, and people know that this happens,
why haven't they invested in an alarm system? $40 a month is a
significantly smaller investment than theft of property and mental anguish.
This robbery has already happened, and you wrote in your email that the
robbers were seen and you know where they live. Was 911 called? You should
be calling 911 or the non-emergency number and trying to get the
perpetrators searched/arrested before the stolen goods are sold. I don't
know if that's the correct thing to do here, but that seems like the thing
that makes more sense than waiting for community watch leaders to say
something.
The community watch can definitely talk about how we can prevent something
like this from happening again, but I'm not sure how this group can help
when a crime has already happened, and the neighbors know where the perps
live.
I'm happy to be corrected by someone that knows better.
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Zombies:Brains :: Me:Data
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:21 AM, matt ramey <howshallwedothis(a)yahoo.com>wrote;wrote:
Hi Logview....it has been over 24 hours since I sent
out an email about
the break in on Thursday, the 2nd break in on this block in a month. The 3
robbers were seen and we have a idea of where they went and might live. I
find it disheartening that there has been no communication since that email
within this community. I'm sorry to call people out, but I've also emailed
Matt and Officer K individually twice hoping for a response, and all we've
gotten is silence.
While cookouts and clean ups are awesome and very fun, and fireworks are
annoying, there is a very real crime problem in our neighborhood,
especially on Milburnie Rd between New Bern and Raleigh Blvd, and to have
those problems go unaddressed is both frustrating and disheartening. I
thought one of the main parts of Community Watch is to help keep our
community safe. I don't see how that can happen if there is no
communication, especially from our leaders in the community.
I will be calling the SE police district today and tomorrow in hopes of
getting some help about this issue and hopefully some better police
presence on Milburnie. There are a lot of children and elderly on this
street, along with a lot of riff raff that need to be dealt with and I hope
everyone will please be diligent in communicating with one another, as well
as the leaders of community watch communicating with us. Otherwise, all of
our homes will be more at risk to this type of activity.
I'm sorry if this sounds bitchy or confrontational, but we really don't
know what else to do.
Hope everyone is well, stay safe.
Matt Ramey