Local: Alert the media! East Bluff has a crime problem
They held a neighborhood forum yesterday in the East Bluff. Some of the issues residents discussed:
- Too many unsupervised teen wandering around, especially after curfew.
- Too many petty crimes, like vandalism.
- Too difficult to report crimes, and too much inaction by authorities once a crime is reported.
- Too many code violations that somehow never seem to get fixed.
In other words: Exactly what I have been saying on this blog for the last 6 years and seven months.
Here’s some things that will help:
- Get a new state’s attorney, preferably one who isn’t too chummy with criminal defense attorneys and who isn’t afraid to prosecute.
- Code enforcement that actually works. Start with a policy to NOT issue petty tickets to those who call code enforcement to report major violations by their neighbors.
July 11th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Crime? Wait what? I thought crime was down? I thought all the focus efforts were working? I thought we had enough police to handle all the problems?
Aren’t basic services being met?
I smell an election coming….
July 11th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
And the rates are down. Residents complain about petty crime continuing to be a problem int he East Bluff. This includes curfew violations, vandalism, etc. AND they complain about persistent code violations from the same properties. In fact, this is the major problem, judging from the comments I get. Which is why I very much recommend what Barbara Van Auken recommends — re-evaluation in how job performance is measured.