Tommy Blog Neighborhood Safety Zones - What Do You Think? | Neighborhood Safety Zones - What Do You Think? |
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| Written by Charles Allen | |
| Tuesday, 10 June 2008 | |
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By now, you've probably heard about the Mayor's new "Neighborhood Safety Zones" that include check points in targeted neighborhoods with high levels of crime. The plan is currently focused in the Trinidad community where gun violence and murders has rocked that neighborhood in recent months. It's been met with mixed reaction from neighbors, but we'd like to hear your thoughts on the matter. If you're not familiar with the plan, you can read more here and here. Councilmember Phil Mendelson, chairman of the Committee on Public Safety and the Judiciary, has scheduled a public hearing on the proposal for 2 pm next Monday at the John A. Wilson Building. The hearing is open to the public and any resident can testify. If you would like to sign up for the hearing, please contact Victor Bonett at (202) 724-4865, by fax at (202) 724-6664 or via e-mail at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it and provide their name, address, telephone number, organizational affiliation and title (if any) by Thursday, June 12, 2008. Regardless of whether you can attend the hearing or not, what do you think of setting up Neighborhood Safety Zones? Leave your thoughts in the comments section below.
One person has commented on this article. (1) Untitled 2008-06-10 18:24:14 I am apposed to these Zones, it turns only certain neighborhoods into zones much like those in communist countries. Proactive police work and neighborhood policing efforts would deter crime at a much better rate than these zones. Neighbors and family of those law abiding neighbors are harassed and inconvenienced when they have committed no crime. Every police officer in the city "knows" who has the guns and who is committing the crime. Let us not forget that most MPD Officers have family in the District, grew up in the District, live in the the counties that surround the District so they know who is doing what in the District. Don't fool yourself. When DA's cut deals with the criminal element to get a bigger fish you put those same criminals back onto our streets and the police look the other way when crime continues. True policing would curtail much of what is happening in our neighborhoods. |
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