[BWNA] Crime Prevention in BWNA -- "Community Policing"
relationships
WEMarkwart at aol.com
WEMarkwart at aol.com
Tue Jan 16 17:32:39 PST 2007
Albert and others,
As Crime Prevention representive on the board of Beaumont Wilshire
Neighborhood Association (BWNA), I would like to encourage open and helpful
relationships with Portland Police Bureau Officers and also with CNN Crime Prevention
staff as we strive to keep BWNA a low-crime area.
Crime prevention is important! Over time, BWNA has had an excellent
relationship with PPB officers, and we should look forward to such in the future.
Working together, police officers and neighborhood residents can make a
difference!
This is a response to a number of phone calls and emails (including several
below):
1. BWNA invites Police Officers to participate at each BWNA general meeting
(as officer's schedule permits), and more often as needed.
2. We keep a list of people in the BWNA area who have expressed interest in
notification as BWNA related crime prevention news becomes available. To
receive this information, call me or send email to me.
3. If you are interested in forming a Block Watch, or wish additional
information from CNN Crime Preventtion staff, you can follow the link to the CNN
Crime Prevention specialist found on our neighborhood website bwna.org.
4. If you would like to talk more about crime prevention in BWNA, don't
hesitate to contact me!
Bill Markwart
BWNA Vice President
BWNA Crime Prevention
vicepresident at bwna.org
503-282-4610
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Subj: Re: [BWNA-Board] Re: [BWNA] Drug Bust - 35th place & Bryce
Date: 1/16/07 4:32:44 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: rogsooz4042 at comcast.net (Roger & Susan Price)
To: bwna-board at bwna.org (Beaumont-Wilshire Neighborhood Assoc. Board)
Albert,
We have had an officer at many of our meetings to give a report. I have found
them interesting and informative and they heighten my awareness of the
neighborhood. Having previously been involved in a meth house bust, I can say that
it takes a lot of time on the part of the neighbors to make it happen. Support
from the neighborhood association would have been welcome in our situation.
Working on projects like this certainly do go a long way toward community
building. People do come together when there is a problem. I do not understand your
reluctance to deal with this issue, Albert, since it certainly does build
community.
Roger
on 1/16/07 3:27 PM, jim karlock at jkarlock at ipns.com wrote:
> A crime report, by local police, is a standard feature of every
> neighborhood meeting in every neighborhood, that I recall being at. OF course sometimes
> the local cop can't make it, but it was still a feature of the meeting.
>
> Thanks
>
> JK
>
>
>
Subj: [BWNA-Board] Re: [BWNA] Drug Bust - 35th place & Bryce
Date: 1/16/07 3:14:02 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: dlisk at myuw.net (Dennis Lisk)
To: albertkaufman at gmail.com
CC: jdlisk at comcast.net, bwna-board at bwna.org
Albert -- Jenny forwarded me your message regarding your wish to not have a
police officer present at the next BWNA general meeting to discuss the recent
drug bust in our neighborhood. I am dismayed and disappointed in your decision
and would hope that you reconsider. Jenny and I really think this is a
serious matter and I'm sure that our other neighbors who live along Bryce Street
and the surrounding couple of blocks would agree.
I wanted to tell you about something that happened about a week prior to the
drug bust. A couple of days after Christmas we were in our basement family
room watching t.v. and at about 10:45pm our doorbell rang. We were immediately
concerned given the hour. I ran upstairs and first looked outside the back
window of our kitchen as we have a doorbell there. To our shock there were two
strange-looking guys waiting outside the door who we had never seen before.
Both of these guys looked like they could be transients and definitely looked
like they were up to no good. I yelled at them through the window what they
wanted and one of them replied but I couldn't hear what he said as our dog was
barking her head off at them. Anyway, after I yelled at them a couple of times
to go away, they finally turned and left, but they were reluctant to go at
first. We ran over to the front windows in our dining room to see where they
might go and, as if what just happened wasn't weird enough, the two guys got
into a car they had parked in front of our house. We noticed they also had a dog
in the car. They drove away slowly headed east on Bryce toward what turned
out to be the house that was busted for selling meth.
I think the only logical explanation for what these two low-lifes were doing
ringing our back door bell late at night was that they mistakenly thought our
house was the meth house. As you can imagine, Jenny and I were very alarmed
about what had happened. Like many other families along Bryce Street and the
surrounding blocks, we have a young child. Bryce is also used as a walking
route for neighborhood kids who attend Beaumont Middle School. As you may know,
many people who are addicted to meth are very dangerous -- not only to
themselves but to others. Having what the police bureau described as a major meth
dealing operation so nearby in an area with so many children is simply
unacceptable. The people who were arrested for dealing drugs own the home that was
busted. They are out of jail and back living in the home. I can't believe that
they would be so stupid as to resume their criminal activities, but I'm sure
that neighbors are concerned about what may happen in the future with these
people.
I agree with you that our neighborhood is generally safe, but as a
neighborhood, we also need to send a message that this type of criminal activity will
not be tolerated. Having a police officer attend the February meeting to
provide more information about what was going on and update the neighborhood on how
this matter will proceed through the criminal justice system would be of great
relief and real interest to many people in our part of Beaumont-Wilshire.
The BWNA needs to show that it can respond to these types of situations promptly
-- waiting until the April meeting will dilute crucial momentum.
As board members of the neighborhood association we need to provide
leadership not only on those matters that we as individuals feel are important, but
also on bread and butter issues of concern that arise within the neighborhood.
If we don't, then we risk becoming totally irrelevant as an organization.
I ask you again to please reconsider your decision. Jenny and I will
continue to try to have a police officer familiar with the case attend the meeting,
as well as to spread the word in our part of the neighborhood that the matter
will be discussed at the February general meeting.
Thanks,
Dennis
----- Original Message -----
From: Albert Kaufman
To: *Beaumont Wilshire Newsletter Newsletter ; Dennis Lisk
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: [BWNA] Drug Bust - 35th place & Bryce
Hi Helen and Jenny,
My sense is that this is such a low crime neighborhood that I'd prefer
not to have officers at every meeting. I realize that this was a
terrible situation, but I'd rather focus on community building and the
projects that we're working on rather than re-hashing the bust of a meth
house. We have such low attendance, that I'd prefer to use the time and
energy we do have to try to build community. That's my take. Jenny, if
you'd like to try to organize something for April, let me know. I'm not
going to put time into it. The time I do have available will be used for
community building unless this becomes some kind of trend which I do not
see happening.
Albert
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