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Deanna Bremer Fisher
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Post subject: What is the most urgent issue facing the Heights now?  Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 3:30 pm |
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What do you think is the most urgent issue facing our community and what should we be doing about it?
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Win Weizer
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Post subject: Re: What is the most urgent issue facing the Heights now? Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 12:03 pm |
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Great question. I went back and forth between crime and foreclosures since the two are linked. Not sure how litter fits with crime though. I realize we have littering laws and fines but the connotation of crime is a lot stronger than that. Perhaps the perspective is that of the broken window syndrome, which is a part of the foreclosure problem....
What to do? That is a tough one, and why we keep making minor changes and dealing with the problem very slowly.
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Deanna Bremer Fisher
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Post subject: Re: What is the most urgent issue facing the Heights now? Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:50 pm |
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Yes, the broken window syndrome. Thieves feel emboldened when they are given visual signals that no one cares and no one is watching out for them.
The foreclosure crisis has left us with many broken and boarded up windows. Crime has increased.
What can be done? The first step would be to recognize that there is a problem...
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Deanna Bremer Fisher
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Post subject: Re: What is the most urgent issue facing the Heights now? Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:58 pm |
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BTW, if anyone has any good ideas for the poll of the week, please send them my way. It's tough coming up with these things. E-mail me at info@futureheights.org.
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Maureen Weigand
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Post subject: Re: What is the most urgent issue facing the Heights now? Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:36 am |
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These issues are so inter-related that it's hard to have an opinion. I do agree that city leaders need to be very aggressive and creative about the issues that accompany our status as a first ring suburb. Poverty and the crime that comes with it are blocks from most of our neighborhoods. We're within walking distance of desperate young people in search of cash and negotiable "stuff". Some of that stuff is sitting within the walls of vacant homes -- copper, utility meters, furnaces and boilers. So, vacant homes are an invitation to crime. Sadly the absentee landlord problem has brought us some renters who don't know how to behave in our neighborhoods, and we're not going to solve the problems that come with these tenants by listing the "how to behave" rules on cable channel 20. Vigilant neighbors, a more obvious police presence, strict prosecution of offenders no matter their ages, especially when there are weapons involved, a better juvenile justice system (a county issue for sure), and encouragement of citizens to invest in monitored alarm systems.
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