Crime and Taking the Pledge!

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.