St. Maarten Private Eye

IT IS TIME TO GET UP OFF OF YOUR LAZY BUTTS AND FIGHT.

We, the public officials and active citizens of Philadelphia, entrusted with "securing the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity," pledge to work together and with our youth leaders to combat violence in our schools and to build safe and supportive neighborhoods for young people throughout the city.
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1Join your neighborhood's watchdog program. These programs make members pledge that they'll keep their neighborhood safe through community education.
Volunteer to help with crime prevention campaigns. For example, many schools have McGruff the Crime Dog come in to speak to students about the importance of obeying the law.
Carry around a picture or video phone. Surprisingly enough, many criminals have been caught based on evidence gathered by everyday citizens recording the crime on their cell phone.
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With the city falling victim to an increase in street crimes in many of its 52 neighborhoods over the past few years and also suffering from budget cuts, residents wanted a way to help police track down felons.
So some private citizens have installed wireless "crime cams" in crime-ridden business sections of their communities in an effort to clean up the streets. Residents go through a "Citizens on Patrol" training course so they can log on from their computers and keep an eye on happenings around them.
"This allows more of their community members to get involved because they're not being put at risk," said Ben Moore, a principal of CityWatcher.com (search), the monitoring system used in some Cincinnati neighborhoods like Walnut Hills, Avondale and Corryville
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So don't you think it is time to span together and look for ways to start combatting our own crime situation rather than just sitting back and expecting the police to have their eyes all over. why can't we try to help ourselfs also ?
We have a police shortage, so o.k. (I have some suggestions on that also) after years of hearing the same answers of shortage it is time to start thinking for yourselfs and look for ways to combat crime.

Anyone have some positive, constructive ideas out there ?
ADV ;(