We've had alot of crime in the neighborhood this year, and we have posted all reported incidents on this page. While we consider the information useful and important, several kind neighbors have pointed out that our postings were full of sensitive information that could also be useful to a criminal targeting our neighborhood.
After much deliberation, we have decided to take the incident reports off this page. We will continue to post incidents online, but the page will not be accessible to the general public. The crime listings will only be accessible through the neighborhood emails, which we will continue to send out whenever we hear of criminal activity or suspicious behaviors. This way we can protect ourselves by keeping this information private among interested residents. If you would like to join our growing email list, please email us at hello@turnagainneighbors.com and tell us your name and the street on which you live.
The Neighborhood Crime Watch group of the Anchorage Police Department is ready to train our neighborhood. They organize "neighborhoods" by street. So, we need a lead person from every street to organize with NCW directly. If they have 50% or better participation at the presentation for that street, then the street will receive the NCW street signs. Also, if you live on a long street, you may split the street in half and have two groups.
So far we have "street leaders" for Lord Baranof, Loussac, Arctic Circle and St. Elias.
This may sound like a big job, but really it's not. Here's the job:
1) The coordinator will call the representative at the APD and set up a date for the presentation. Then APD will send the coordinator a packet in the mail with information about NCW and invitation to the presentation.
2) The Coordinator then delivers these invites door to door and attends the presentation.
There is no on-going commitment. Easy - and think of the neighbors you'll meet!
Here is a link to the Muni's Crime Watch page:
http://www.muni.org/departments/police/ncw/Pages/default.aspx
More information: Downloadable PDFs
Why Start a NCW?
NCW Operation ID Instructions
NCW Home Security Survey |
Here is a link to a website that maps the
crime in Anchorage:
http://www.crimemapping.com/map/ak/anchorage
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