I Will Not Say This Again. All Right, Just One More Time. Maybe.

Tonight, we had a CrimeWatch/Coffee with a Cop meeting.  The meeting was run by Chuck Ross, our CrimeWatch Chair, and others appearing included five of our officers.  Also, Nicole from the County CrimeWatch was there to provide part of the presentation.

Much of the meeting was a review.  Questions were asked, and tips were given.  We went over again the importance of calling 911, if anything looks at all suspicious.  Or concerning.  Or unexpected.  We as residents do not have to figure out whether a call should go to 911, or to Non-emergency.  911 will triage that, after we call.  And they're quick.  And they keep calls recorded.  And everyone in enforcement wants it that way.  So call 911.  Nick Wollschlager says he would rather go on 1000 cold calls than miss the one that was hot.

It was Nicole from County CrimeWatch who said it first.  Brad Kern belabored it.  Way too many crime events and unwelcome entries occur, because doors are not locked.  Doors are not locked.  Car doors.  House doors.  Left unlocked.  To this day.  And tempting items are sometimes left in clear view.

We never even talked about traffic control, except for the mention of speeding, mostly on 6th and on Griffing.  Under our new Management, we're stepping up ticket-writing.  But we make very little money on tickets written.  Most of the benefit of it is the message it sends, or, as Roy Camara and others put it, the education it provides.  Roy says you can educate a lot more people by turning on the blue flashing lights for all traffic, or even just for speeders, than you can by stopping one person, and writing them a ticket.

So, not that it's ever been mentioned before, but PLEASE LOCK YOUR DOORS.


PS: We also talked about a wall along the tracks.  Reason #2 that we don't have one is that it's unclear on whose property it would be.  Reason #3 is that some BP residents along the track don't want a wall (for who knows what reason.  Maybe they like the noise and the trespassers.).  Reason #1, according to Bob Anderson, is the cost.  Bob says there was a time some years ago when that cost was estimated at $1M.  No one got an estimate today.  But if it was $1M, that's about $900 per home in BP, once.  Or, if someone doesn't have $900, it's less than $50 per year for 20 years.  That amount of money substantially reduces train noise and intrusion from mischief-makers.