[RP TownTalk] More break ins

[S Collins]

Sorry you had to endure that, it must've made you feel terribly "violated," I know that's the way I'd feel if my apartment was hit.  I've also called the police on various occasions if I saw something out of the ordinary and they've always responded quickly and professionally, I've never been made to feel that I was "stupid", paranoid, etc., for calling in.  

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On Wed, 6/25/14, Maureen Farrington <maureen.farrington at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [RP TownTalk] More break ins
 To: "Jenni Pompi" <jpompi at gmail.com>
 Cc: "TownTalk" <towntalk at riverdale-park.org>
 Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2014, 10:51 AM
 
 I wanted to say that this
 sounds somewhat similar to what happened in 2008 when there
 was a string of break-ins on Queensbury Road, all the way
 from Taylor Road to Route 1 (and maybe the other side of Rte
 1).
 
 
 My house was one broken into, and among the
 signs I wish I would have heeded was that a makeup bag was
 taken out of my unlocked car about a week before the
 burglars forced their way through a not-fully locked side
 door.  I found the makeup scattered in our front yard, and
 in retrospect I figured out that it was part of the
 "casing" process.
 
 
 We had a meeting about a neighborhood
 watch (which Sarah W. worked with me on!) that didn't
 really take off, but one of the big things emphasized was to
 call the police about ANYTHING suspicious. If potential
 thieves see a police car roll by, not even if they get
 stopped, they will know that this isn't a good
 neighborhood to work their trade. 
 
 
 Also, make sure you
 don't make it easy for potential thieves. Lock doors and
 windows, and clear away anything that could be used to break
 a window or door.
 
 I
 call the police regularly about things that seem
 "off." They always take me seriously, and I find
 them very responsive.
 
 
 -Maureen
 
 
 On Wed,
 Jun 25, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Jenni Pompi <jpompi at gmail.com>
 wrote:
 
 Hi, folks, when I
 was covering Riverdale Park for Patch, I used crimereports.com to pull
 together my weekly/biweekly crime blotter. The Riverdale
 Park Police Department and PGPD both submit incidents (and
 do so fairly frequently), so if you go to the site and enter
 our ZIP code, it will pull up a map of reported crimes
 within a specified period. You can choose the dates, and
 even narrow down the types of crimes you are searching for.
 It's far from perfect (you can't tell if arrests
 were made, only if reports were filed), but it will give you
 SOME info, and then you can call the police and ask them for
 more details on a particular incident if you'd like. If
 you have the date/time/address of a specific incident, RPPD
 should be able to pull the incident report for you. 
 
 
 Jenni
 
 
 
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