Action Committee

On May 17th, several members of the neighborhood met with Captain London of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department to discuss what positive steps could be taken to address the rash of residential break-ins in Croissant Park. I'm giving everyone who DIDN'T show up the benefit of the doubt- yes the notice went out last minute - and yes- it did say it was a"crime watch" meeting so perhaps I wouldn't have attended either had I not been one of the organizers. Having said that however, it was little disappointing that so few of our neighbors turned out to see what they could do to make a difference.





No, we are not proposing a crime watch thing where everyone has matching vests and marches up and down the neighborhood streets on the look out for crime - the nearest I would get to something like that is to sit on my front porch with an adult beverage in hand and watch others and perhaps make unkind comments as to how neon yellow or orange doesn't do anything for most people. Rather, what Captain London was proposing we do, and what we have started to do, is more of an "awareness" group- we are already doing a lot that he said would be helpful - communicating on the blog, through e-mail blasts and the like. We need some fresh ideas though - and for people other than board memebers to get involved.





The good news is that they seem to have caught a few of the miscreants as the incidents have definitely dropped of- but we do want to keep the issue on the front burner.





We will be having our second meeting of the Action Committee Tuesday June 14th at 6:30 at the community center. We hope more of you will get involved- and be able to attend. It does not make sense that only people from 16th street north to Davie and west of 4th Ave. attended - this is a community wide problem and we would like the entire neighborhood represented.





We will also be having a crime update presentation at our last general meeting before the summer - June 28th at 7 PM - I hope to see a lot of you there.