--- In reedycreekneighborhood@yahoogroups.com, "Whitney"

Wow! I'm really sorry to hear that you went through that crap! If you have small
children, I would seriously be considering moving, too. Years ago, I had a
similar experience. We had a great house in a not so great neighborhood in PA. A
friend of a room mate had words with some neighborhood kids and from then on,
they had it out for us. THey broke our front window by throwing bricks and
snowballs. We were right there, yelling for them to stop and instead, they came
right up onto our stoop and threw them into our house!

I was out of there in 2 weeks!

Jess on W. 29th







<whitneymccrummorrison@...> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone.
>
> I thought we'd let you all know that crime is on the rise down here on our end
of Dundee Avenue.
>
> We've had several altercations with groups of individuals including being
threatened with gun violence in our own yard, and having a 3 lb chunk of
concrete thrown through the window of our children's playroom (thank goodness my
toddler wasn't in there at the time).
>
> Also there was an assault on a woman by a man in front of the apartments on
34th. The woman did not stick around to press charges. At least five adults were
out there and did nothing to stop it or get help, and my children and all my
neighbors' children witnessed the crime.
>
> Just some FYI from the police:
> 1. Throwing something through the window of an occupied dwelling is a felony.
> 2. Certain materials can't be fingerprinted.
> 3. Police policy is to take a report over the phone, rather than come have a
look.
> 4. Verbal threats of violence or death are not punishable by law.
> 5. If a person comes onto your property to threaten you, you may NOT remove
them by force, unless they are CLEARLY going to kill you. Even then, the police
recommended we run into our house and call them, rather than defend ourselves.
>
> Last night it took the police 45 minutes to show up to our house, while 5
people were threatening my husband in our yard. The policeman that did finally
show up was from another part of the sector and happened to hear the call while
on break.
>
> This officer said that each of us ought to file a paper at our precinct
headquarters which authorizes the police to monitor and arrest anyone caught
tresspassing on our property. If this paper is on file, the police can arrest
anyone tresspassing even when the homeowner is not there, and the homeowner does
not need to be involved in going to court.
>
> This was all the advice he could give us.
>
> I know that what happens on our corner may seem like something in the distance
to many of you. We are certainly on the frontier of the neighborhood. However,
it doesn't take long for crime to spread if left unchecked.
>
> Has anyone started a neighborhood watch? If so, could you forward me the
information? If not, would anyone like to join me in doing so? We're at our wits
end down here, and if something doesn't change, we'll be putting our house on
the market with all the rest by the end of the summer.
>
> Whitney
>