For me, one of the great things about the walks is that it also acts as a meeting. It is a great opportunity to share information with the officers and our neighbors. The group can actually walk to the the locations where these incidents have occurred, observe who is out and about, notice any obvious safety issues... If they are all in the same general area, it is good for residents and officers to know this, and see the spots. And, the walk just happened to have already been scheduled. Having an all hands on deck meeting would be great, too. The BCA Executive Board can discuss it at the next meeting.
In an earlier email to Commander Solberg, I copied these incidents and I asked that whoever attends this evening come with tips. Officers almost always have words of advice during the walks. . I assume Jennifer also exchanges info with MPD when she schedules the walks.
Since the beginning of the year, MPD is invited to every BCA meeting to make a report. As of the last meeting, these incidents of a teenager group attacking people had not been reported. But there has been a lot of useful exchange between the officer and the membership, including tips.
Last year, there was a problem in Eckington, and CM McDuffie took a walk there, along with some other agency representatives. I think he made a walk up in the Langdon area recently. I'll include him on this email, as well.
Thanks!
Betsy
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Patrick Hudak <patrickhudak@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the reminder, Betsy.To me, the safety walk seems almost comically out-of-touch in light of the issue: kids mugging people. I seriously doubt a walk is going to impact the situation.Wouldn't it make sense for the Civic Association to call an emergency meeting that included Councilman McDuffie as well as the police to talk about what they're doing to stop this and what actions we can take? For example, if an adult gets into a fight with a group of attacking kids and one of the kids gets seriously hurt, does the law shield the adult or is he or she at risk of prosecution?I'm looping in Teri Janine, the Civic Association President, and Mark Mueller, my ANC, for their thoughts.Patrick--On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Betsy McDaniel <bloomingdame@gmail.com> wrote:
Neighbors -
For those of you have not been checking the blogs recently, there are multiple reports of people being attacked in Bloomingdale by a group of teenagers.Please join the regularly scheduled community walk tonight and demonstrate that we will not allow our neighborhood to be threatened like this. We also need to let MPD know that we will not tolerate this in our community.I don't know how many people are on this list, but if everyone could make an effort to attend, and invite at least one person who is not on the list to join them, we could have a great group. (Dogs and children are welcome.) I have no idea how many officers will attend this evening. It is normally one or two. I have asked Commander Solberg to send a strong presence tonight. It would be great if we have enough neighbors to break into groups and cover more territory, as has been done sometimes in the past.Posts below recount multiple incidents:newest incident:Wanted you to know that my housemate was attacked/mugged by the group of kids this evening at the corner of 2nd and T Streets. She believes they were younger than high school kids!! She's physically okay, but they did hit her and tried to grab her purse and gym bag, while screaming "give us your money". We called 911 two hours ago, but the police have not shown up yet. Residents really need to be aware if walking out in this area!!
older incidents:
Betsy
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