07-01-2008, 05:43 AM
Raising taxes for a population that is already financially stressed won't do much to lower crime rates.
How many of you have Community Watch in your neighborhoods? If you don't have it, why don't you? That does a lot to help the police, drastically lowers the crime rate in your neighborhood and is something you can do right now to help.
Back in the late '80's and early '90's Hawaiian Acres had a crime wave of hundreds of break-ins each month. They put in an active Community Watch and the break-ins went down to less than five each month. The police had time to take care of the five, they couldn't handle the hundreds. I don't know the current state of the Hawaiian Acres Community Watch, but it worked great before (and it probably is still working, but I haven't been there for a long time to know) and it will work in other areas as well.
Community Watch not only solves the problems but it keeps our property taxes low enough that folks won't turn to crime to pay them.
How many of you have Community Watch in your neighborhoods? If you don't have it, why don't you? That does a lot to help the police, drastically lowers the crime rate in your neighborhood and is something you can do right now to help.
Back in the late '80's and early '90's Hawaiian Acres had a crime wave of hundreds of break-ins each month. They put in an active Community Watch and the break-ins went down to less than five each month. The police had time to take care of the five, they couldn't handle the hundreds. I don't know the current state of the Hawaiian Acres Community Watch, but it worked great before (and it probably is still working, but I haven't been there for a long time to know) and it will work in other areas as well.
Community Watch not only solves the problems but it keeps our property taxes low enough that folks won't turn to crime to pay them.
Kurt Wilson