The Safety Committee

The Safety Committee meets in conjunction with the Regional Crime Meetings the first Thursday of every month at 6:00 pm, here at the NNN offices. Sgt. Tom Cameron, our regional coordinator for the Northwest part of the city, is present to answer questions and to give input to our discussions.

The goal of the Safety Committee is to work to enhance neighborhood security. Committee projects have included distributing information on countering illegal activities in the neighborhood, facilitating the growth of Neighborhood Watch Programs, and developing strategies for increased collaboration between residents and the Police Department.

In January 2004, the committee met to discuss goals for the coming year. Concerns neighbors ranked as a high priority were:

• Using the NNN as an information center to collect information to pass on to police
• Increasing participation in Neighborhood Watch
• Re-creating block clubs where neighbors get to know their neighbors
• Working with Crime Watch to assigned HUD funded police foot and bike patrols in our area
• Developing a list of landlords/worst properties so we could work in conjunction with Police and code enforcement to help neighbors resolve problems with rental properties.