Community Policing
This article from yesterday’s PDN shows that community policing works. We just need more people to do it.
Yesterday’s article was referring to a 5-acre property on Highway 101 and Brook Street North. With community policing, the county code enforcement manager (Rich Sill) meets with businesses and residents in a high crime area. They come up with ways to make the area less conducive to criminal activity.
Community policing uses the “Fixing Broken Windows” theory: if a neighborhood looks blighted or sleazy (broken windows, garbage on the streets) it will attract petty crimes (loitering, public drinking) which will lead to more serious crimes. By fixing the first broken window that appears in a neighborhood, the problem can be nipped in the bud (so the theory goes).
With thefts and vandalism increasing in the area, we need more community policing.
Yesterday’s article was referring to a 5-acre property on Highway 101 and Brook Street North. With community policing, the county code enforcement manager (Rich Sill) meets with businesses and residents in a high crime area. They come up with ways to make the area less conducive to criminal activity.
Community policing uses the “Fixing Broken Windows” theory: if a neighborhood looks blighted or sleazy (broken windows, garbage on the streets) it will attract petty crimes (loitering, public drinking) which will lead to more serious crimes. By fixing the first broken window that appears in a neighborhood, the problem can be nipped in the bud (so the theory goes).
With thefts and vandalism increasing in the area, we need more community policing.
Labels: Brook Street North Port Angeles, county code enforcement manager Rich Sill, Port Angeles community policing, Port Angeles Fixing Broken Windows
posted by Tom Harper at 4:13 PM
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We of the Clallam County Vigilance Committee have sworn eternal vigilance over Clallam County.
We are your neighbors, your co-workers, we are everywhere.
Although we are allied with no official law enforcement agancy and have no power in an official capacity, we remain vigilant!
Those who would perpetrate evil in Clallam County: think twice! Your actions are being witnessed by a member of the Clallam County Vigilance Committee and we will report you to the appropriate law enforcement agancy. Crime and evil will not flourish in Clallam County!
Call 1-800-rat-yr-nabor. We'll be right over on our tactical segway to tazor and pepper spray the vermin, even shoot 'em if they get surley.
the whole town looks a bit threadbare and sleezy..and downtown is full of homeless (who sleep under the pier and on the trail and bluff) and crazies. Officer Motorized-Scooter is useless and ignores even the most outrageous of loonies who harass shopkeepers and tourists.
Exactly what are we supposed to do regarding "community policing". MOVE?
So they put a fence on a vacant lot? How about cleaning up the graffiti around town, or cleaning up the empty buildings, or that ratty music store roof?
And someone please buy that fat crazy guys that walks up and down 1st and Front some longer Tshirts!!!
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