Dear neighbors, friends, county and municipality leaders
and crime enforcement agencies,
It is very much with remorse and anger that I write to
you this night
to let you know that our own ROLOH Secretary,
"Jenny" was broken into
this evening. As I
write this I want to include little detail of the
crime scene but lots of detail on prevention and of
course our concern
for Jenny and her neighbors.
Little detail is one, they pulled a window out with force to gain
access to the home on the back side which faces the ally
way, Our Ally
Ways are unsafe in Lake Worth and just two houses north
of this home
on the west Alley Way of Cochran the Pole Light is
out. They also
must have known the schedule that "Jenny" keeps
so we are asking all
residents if you have a steady routine to start mixing it
up as you
never know when someone or even a nearby neighbor is
watching your
home. If you have
neighbors with multiple cars and you have only one,
please ask them to start parking a vehicle in your drive
when you’re not
home.
On the inside start using yard sale purses and wallets
and stuffing
them with JUNK items so that the criminal is stuck
wasting their time
searching for nothing!
Make sure you hide these fake items where you
think your important items would normally go.....As for
valuables
please get a safety deposit box! Do not hide anything under a
mattress as guess what?
They look there. Do not hide
anything in
your Bible, They look there! Do not hide anything important in your
lower drawers or vanity drawers as they look there! For a home break
in, the criminal knows they only have so many minutes to
get in and
out......Chang your routine!
If you think your jewelry is safe in a "kitchen
canister" it probably
is not.....This was someone that knew what they were
doing and where
to look so if you think you’re out smarting the criminals
its probably a
good bet that they are thinking like you!
CHALLENGE! We are
asking one member on each street to take a pad of
paper, Write at
the top of the paper "I the undersigned
will participate in a neighborhood watch program and understand
that
this will require 4 meetings per year." Have each member print their names,
Address and sign. The
Member for each street is to go door to door and ask
each resident to sign the paper as we only need 50% of
each street to gain a
neighborhood watch!
Please do this over the next week and have your sheets
ready by Monday Morning.
Next! The
Neighborhood Watch through PBSO will grant us one or two
signs so we are asking our City and County Commission to
provide the
funding to purchase each and every additional signage for
our ROLOH
Neighborhood. WE
want to take our neighborhood back, take action from
the criminals that continue to plague us and our city and
we are DONE
with this crime and it starts with our leaders....from
Forbes " South
Florida politics have long been stained by corruption,
which we factor
into our list based on data from the Public Integrity
Section of the
U.S. Department of Justice on the number of politicians
convicted of
crimes. Southern Florida has had 354 public officials
convicted of
crimes over the past decade, which is one of the highest
rates in the
country on a per capita basis."
Read the whole story here:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2012/02/02/americas-most-miserable-cities/
Why do we as South
Floridians put up with this?!
ENOUGH - I request a full call to all residents to be a
part of stopping this crime,
mending our reputation and making South Florida a place
where
CRIME is a thing of the past. We The People of South Florida are fully and
willing to
battle this out. I
personally call on all residents to join forces
with your municipalities, law enforcement and governments
of all
levels and CHALLENGE every level to do better! to BE Better
and to
MAKE this region destination that is Safe to Live and Play
in.
The Challenges are going to start local and here we
go.....Lake Worth
Commissioners....DEMAND better from our citizens and make
everyone
understand that PBSO does not walk alone but We The
People have to
play our part and start standing up to our criminal
elements and
against crime! WE
need to start telling our Palm Beach County Judges
that we are tired of the crime and law makers that we
want higher and
tougher penalties and when we demand that, we mean the
max for any
repeat offenders.
Next Challenge is we MUST demand our state and county
representatives
to start forcing tougher laws and exploring more
aggressive community
grants that build and change bad or demographically areas
of high
crime so that the young people of those areas are taught
that crime
is not the way.
Even more important what do YOU as an individual do
to help Law Enforcement or a local government to make
your
neighborhood a better place to live?
South Florida! It’s
time to take our Major Metro Area Back but we need
YOUR help! Yes every
individual needs to play his or her part in
knowing when to report a crime, when to talk your friends
off the
ledge and when to make the right decisions of not being a
criminal.....It starts in YOUR HOME.....Will you take a
pledge one
very simple pledge...."I (your name) will pledge
that I will be
responsible for making my home, my neighborhood and my
city or county
area a better place by being pro-active and reporting
crime, ensuring
my family is responsible for our surroundings and our
neighborhood and
we will work with our neighbors to improve our safety and
security and
lower crime where we live
today right now."
By this pledge we are the people that decide
"CRIME" will no longer
rule our neighborhoods and we will fight back by being
more observant
and reporting even the slightest suspicion. We will challenge our Law
Enforcement Agencies to act upon our calls and play a
role in gathering
data, descriptions and all information that will work
towards seeking
out those who decide to break crimes in and around our
area.
