NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH UPDATE – JULY 2008
“Please Help Out, Get to Know Your Community”
Linda Marie, Neighborhood Watch Captain
Contractors are not putting away their tools they just leave them throughout the job site. Under the California State Contractors Licensed Board there is an established code requirement issued under OSHA and City Building Codes. Professionally licensed contractors and sub-contractors know they must pick-up all tools or supplies at the end of the work day and place them in a safe designated or locked area so it does not create a hazard to first responders (fire, police and emergency personnel) or cause damage or harm to humans, animals, personal property or owner occupied structures and dwellings. Such appears not be the case in our community.
On June 23, 25 and 26, residences saw tools and materials hidden in over grown bushes on the North/West Side. There was a large wheel barrel turned sideways making it appear to blend in with the bushes, along with black sprinkler heads and metal galvanized short pipes, next to it with dirt and a plastic bag on top of the items. Along several of the plaza sidewalks on Bolsa was torn up areas of grass and dirt with large hand size chunks of concert left on the grass for several days.
On the upper West Side above the curb next to the building was a blue upside down plastic bucket container with a stack of short cuts of wood pieces on top. On the North/Side a metal fold out rusted road sign against the block wall fence with bushes growing around it, stacks of lumber covered with dirty plastic and shoved along side the temporary permanent white trailer parked at an angle, pieces of metal sheeting and wood shavings in the back of it along side the over grown bougainvillea bushes. (Pictures were taken as proof)
Each of these items can be used as a weapon to break windows to gain entry into our homes, vehicles and to cause physical bodily harm and wood can be used to climb over fences into courtyards and by an arsonist.
Several years ago a large rock was intentionally left on top of the South West corner of the block wall fence. It was used to smash out car windows allowing thieves an instant tool. After the break-in, it was put back on the block wall fence for the next victim’s vehicles. When this was reported to the police using pictures to confirm the tool used for the many break-ins the rock disappeared and the crimes stopped.
Drunken chemically inducted uncivilized juveniles and criminals of the male gender thrive on excitement, thrills, quick money and easy opportunities for personal and emotional gain. These items of opportunity are the perfect tools for crimes in our community along with over grown bushes inviting a place for criminals to hide.
Please be on the look out for items in the common area that seem to blend-in but are not part of the dwellings, structures, vegetation or irrigation within and around our walkways and community streets. You should take a digital picture and report it to the police in case it was used for a criminal act and follow-up with your concerns to the community property management company by e-mail and a phone call.
There are signs before criminal activity occurs such as; markings, symbols, tagging with paint or chalk and it must be reported immediately to the Graffiti Hotline because it can indicate a gang meeting location, threats to the community, and the family when painted on a residents structure, garage door or community block wall. You need to take action before the crime not after. As a homeowner/resident what happens around our community will affect you sooner or later, don’t allow your home to become your prison and our community to be overrun by dominating and aggressive self serving male bully criminals.
A Neighborhood Watch meeting has been scheduled please attend and learn what is going on within our community. Meet the officers in the City of Westminster who put their life on the line everyday to protect you by responding to your families call when you need help.
Monday, June 7th, 2010 - 12:46 PM
Category: Life/Living/People.
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