MPD and their new service
Noticed on facebook, the new service the MPD are promoting: Crimemapping.com
It is a slick site. However, we KNOW that there are crimes. Why state the obvious? More resources should be in preventing these crimes! I am a big follower of the MPD and everything they do with the limited resources. So with this site, we see the crimes committed, so now what?
Some neighborhoods are trying to do their part including ours, but it still happens. I am a big proponent of a Park patrol within certain parks (As that is where the vagrancy starts). The Blue Ribbon committee was put together to come up with some solutions, and I believe they are behind this (park patrol) so where are we with that?
On another note, in an interview with Modesto View, City Manager, Greg Nyhoff suggested, "I would like to see Modesto residents reporting and stamping out tagging. Tagger's create blight and blight causes a decline in property values and creates an inhospitable landscape." Gee, you think? Who are we going to report it to? The graffiti abatement is no longer! Again, we do our own graffiti removal in OUR neighborhood, but we cannot get the rest of the city covered! Honestly, outside of a few neighborhood alliances, most people have given up. There is just too much.
So you have talked about it, what are you going to do about it Mr. Nyhoff?
1 comment:
These guys also do graffiti wipe out work...a great group doing lots of good in the community. Definitely part of the solution... http://vibrantcommunities.org/
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