Neighborhood Watch (Revised)

Bonnie Moreno is a long time homeowner in the Shaw Heights area. Moreno knew that her neighborhood was not safe to live in, but she stayed anyways because problem did not affect her. Until one morning Moreno woke up with her entire fence spray painted with gang graffiti. That's when Moreno had enough and decided to contact the Police Department in organizing a neighborhood watch. Ever since their neighborhood watch meetings and training, Moreno and her neighbor’s are now better at recognizing suspicious act and how to protect themselves. Crime is now less of an issue in Shaw Heights. I’ve always believe that you should get to know your neighbors because you never know when you need them. If Moreno had started this neighborhood watch a little sooner then she might of stop the crime that happen to her before it happen.

Same thing happen in El Cerritio area of San Diego. Joanne McLogan one of the neighborhood watch community notice a suspicious car dropped off a man, the car then left driving up and down the street several times. That’s when Joanne contacted the police. In the mean time she gathered neighborhood watch group to spy on the suspicious suspect that was dropped off. They notice he was grabbing stuff in a hurry and shoving her neighbor’s belongings into their bags. As soon as the suspicious suspect left the front door Joanne notice police has not arrived yet, that’s when they yelled and chased him down the street. So without the neighborhood watch the police would not catch the suspect on time. Similar incidents happen to me. I contacted the police and they specifically told me that, “if no one was hurt or injured the emergency can wait and they will get there as soon as they can.” Authorities can assist you, but sometime there are bigger issues that they need to resolve before they can get to you.

In West Seattle numerous burglaries happens a day. According to Karen, one of the West Seattle home owners said the burglary that she’s seen so far do, do their homework. What she means by that is burglary would randomly watch your homes to plan out a schedule to best rob your home. They would know exactly your daily schedule before they rob you. So far Karen and her community had only come up with ways to keep eachother updated information in their neighborhoods other than that they are trying to get volunteers to coordinate a neighborhood watch. I truly agree that finding volunteers and group meetings are very time consuming, but if they have had more courage and time they could have decrease the crime in their areas by doing something about it other than informing which house was just robbed.

Over all I feel that without the neighborhood watch, certain crimes could not be held accountable for and according to neighborhood watch members, police department, and other authorities says that crimes has been decrease because of good Samaritan cooperation and communication. All working together will make a difference in our society.

Credits:
Heather Wood. “Neighborhood watch-making a difference.”
Article posted: October 3, 2007 http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BTR/is_3_20/ai_62710501?tag=content;col1
Accessed June 26, 2008

NBC San Diego. “Suspected Burglars Foiled By Neighborhood Watch.” http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/15491336/detail.html?subid=10101561. Posted March 4, 2008. Accessed June 26, 2008.

Crime, Safety, West Seattle News.
Karen. “West Seattle crime watch: burglaries updated.”
Article posted: April 2, 2008 at 11:58
http://westseattleblog.com/blog/?p=6670
Accessed June 30, 2008

Neighborhood Watch

Bonnie Moreno is a long time homeowner in the Shaw Heights area knew that her neighborhood was not safe to live in, but she stayed anyways because problems did not affect her as much. Until one morning Bonnie woke up with her entire fence spray painted with gang graffiti. That's when Bonnie had enough and decided to contact the Police Department in organizing a neighborhood watch. Ever since their neighborhood watches Bonnie and her neighbors felt safe and crime was not an issue in their neighborhood.

Same thing happen in El Cerritio area of San Diego. Joanne McLogan one of the neighborhood watch community notice a suspicious car dropped off a man, then the car left driving up and down the street several times. That’s when Joanne contacted the police. In the mean time she gathered neighborhood watch group to spy on the suspicious suspect that was dropped off. They notice he was grabbing stuff in a hurry and shoving her neighbor’s belongings into their bags. As soon as the suspicious suspect left the front door Joanne notice police has not arrived yet, that’s when they yelled and chased him down the street. So over all without the neighborhood watch the police would not catch the suspect on time.

Neighborhood watch is not only coordinating in the U.S. but also in Iraq. It has been reported some tribe member called “The Taji’s Neighborhood Watch” which consist of 500 different tribe volunteer members. A group member’s of the Taji’s on
June 25, 2007 notice a suspicious truck driver moving through the rural village of Abd Allen al Jasim. The truck itself contained 24 mortar rounds, two rockets and many more. Truck driver was stopped by the Taji’s and turned over to the Coalition Forces and the Iraqi government to handle the rest.

Over all without the neighborhood watch, certain crimes could not be held accountable for and according to neighborhood watch members, police department, and other authorities says that crimes has been decrease because of good Samaritan cooperation and communication. All working together will make in difference in our society.

Credits: Heather Wood “Shaw Heights Neighborhood Watch”
NBC reports “El Cerrito Neighborhood Watch”
Randall Baucom “Taji’s Neighborhood Watch”

FreeWriting

What I'm mainly interested in learning in this class is, how to write down on paper about what I really want to say. My biggest problem is thinking of how to make sense on paper. A lot of times on an assignment, my instructor or peers would say that my topic doesn't make any sense. What is on paper is not what they are hearing from me. So ofcourse in my mind it all makes sense and my topic is related to the assignment. So I still don't understand what they are talking about. Last but not least thing that I notice is I tend to do a lot of run-on sentence which I also hope to improve in this class.

What I call MySpace, tell me what you see!

This is what I call "my own little Space."

I don't rent, I don't own, so I can not say that this is my house. What I do know is this is my little room that shows a little of me. I can decorate and add which ever color, the way I like it and no one can say much to me because it's my little space.

I love color as you can see. I love making my room as comfy as I can so that way I can love my surroundings.

Reasons why I took a picture of my bed is because I love to sleep. I take naps when ever I can and value sleep more and more as I get older. People do say..."your room reflects what kind of person you are" so from this picture you can't really tell, but I do paint my rooms to different colors every 3 to 4 months. : P