Panelists:
- Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice Ed Reiskin
- Police Chief Charles Ramsey
- Director Michael Latessa, Office of Unified Communications (including 911 & 311 dispatch)
- Andrew J. Kline, Esq.
The Logan Circle Community Association is proud to sponsor a public safety forum for all concerned citizens of Logan Circle. The intent is to discuss the issues impacting our community, and to create a meaningful dialogue of solutions and concerns between the residents, business owners, working professionals, and our city officials.
Please join us for this important discussion.
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
The Washington Plaza Hotel
7 PM
NOTE: Out of respect for our membership, no political campaigning or commercial solicitation will be permitted.
For more information on the forum, or to find out more about the LCCA, please visit our website: http://www.logancircle.org/.
9 comments:
I will be there. Chris - do you plan on reading Chief Ramsey his report card? ;-)
oh for goodness sake! :) see you then.
Damnit! I had Girl Scout cookies to sell. J/k.
well you can take your cookies and.... ;)
so glad everyone is so amusing today!
Today, someone rang our doorbell on 11th St. and claimed to be a contractor working a few blocks away. Wanted to leave his tool box as collateral in exchange for money to get back to Baltimore County. Claimed I'd given him directions to Shaw Metro a few weeks ago and asked if "I remembered him." He may be going door to door in the area. This happened at 1:30 pm on Sunday.
11th between R & S. Guy is mid-thirties, white, plaid shirt, jeans, and bright white tennis shoes. I wanted to believe him, but we've been scammed in the past by people ringing the bell claiming some sort of hardship. He wasn't aggressive - but it was very odd.
Thanks so much for the quick response! I just posted this for other neighbors to read - didn't realize the police see this board. Appreciate the response. I forgot to mention that the guy is about 5'11 and has short brown hair.
I just want to say how impressed I am with Sgt. Emerman and thankful I am. What he is doing reminds me of an article I read after hearing about it from Guiliani when he campaigned for mayor of New York city over a decade ago. That article, "Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety," by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling in the Atlantic Monthly (March 1982), talked about increasing neighborhood safety by having more foot-patrol officers. The theory being that officers in cars are limited in getting to know citizens because a door and window exclude the approaching citizen; they are a barrier. On the otherhand, foot-patrol officers are shaped more by the activity on the street as opposed to the cloed nature of a car (this is a simplistic run down, please read it if you can).
At any rate, I think Sgt. Emerman is employing a sort of "foot-patrol" on this blog. Despite the lack of phsyical contact, he is gaining vaulable information from user's posts to get a sense of what the concerns and problems are in the Logan community. Its a wonderful example of what New York city did to lessen crime, but using the Internet instead of sending officers on foot-patrol. Thank you, Sgt. Emerman.
I am the poster from yesterday warning about the tools for money guy. Here is a blog I found on another site. Apparently, this dude has been making the rounds:
http://www.inshaw.com/blog/2005/12/whos-that-knocking-on-door.html
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