My OperaBlagden Alley Meeting Last Night
Friday, February 25, 2011 2:32:40 PM
Went to the monthly Blagden Alley meeting last night. As usual, a very good update on what's happening in the neighborhood. (The current web site is getting a makeover soon.)
The police report was interesting. Not a whole lot of new crime, except that burglaries are up. There is a new condo somewhere just outside the Blagden alley and Naylor Court neighborhood. They have secure doors, but no security cameras. Some bad guy gets in and takes stuff from the units. I think Officer Daee said the count was to 11 so far. The condo board board doesn't want to spend the $1K or so to put up one camera and record who goes in and out. The editor has been the president of a condo board in his lifetime. Condo boards are tight. Loose doesn't get elected.
The editor, way back in his Foggy Bottom days, did many things having to do with politics, such as putting fliers under doors in condos and apartment buildings. There wasn't one apartment on condo without a front desk that he couldn't get into, simply by being patient and looking like he lived there. If there were security cameras, he wouldn't have done it, although he would have stood outside the front door and handed out the fliers. That, however, misses a lot of people and takes longer.
What he is saying is that the dear folks in that condo had better bite the bullet and get the camera or two needed. Someone is going to encounter the perp and get hurt. If the perp is never there, it's a crime that never happened. Hard to measure but nice.
The police report was interesting. Not a whole lot of new crime, except that burglaries are up. There is a new condo somewhere just outside the Blagden alley and Naylor Court neighborhood. They have secure doors, but no security cameras. Some bad guy gets in and takes stuff from the units. I think Officer Daee said the count was to 11 so far. The condo board board doesn't want to spend the $1K or so to put up one camera and record who goes in and out. The editor has been the president of a condo board in his lifetime. Condo boards are tight. Loose doesn't get elected.
The editor, way back in his Foggy Bottom days, did many things having to do with politics, such as putting fliers under doors in condos and apartment buildings. There wasn't one apartment on condo without a front desk that he couldn't get into, simply by being patient and looking like he lived there. If there were security cameras, he wouldn't have done it, although he would have stood outside the front door and handed out the fliers. That, however, misses a lot of people and takes longer.
What he is saying is that the dear folks in that condo had better bite the bullet and get the camera or two needed. Someone is going to encounter the perp and get hurt. If the perp is never there, it's a crime that never happened. Hard to measure but nice.
