Dupont Public Safety Committee
Meeting - Tuesday, 03.18.03, 7 pm
Location: Third District Police Station at 1620 V St.
Room assignment is pending.
The newly revived Dupont Public Safety Committee which
is a jointly sponsored by the Dupont Circle ANC, DC MAP, and Dupont Circle
Citizens Association is meeting on March 18th at the Third District Police
Station at 1620 V Street. Please spread the word. People who
would like to be problem-solvers or liaisons on particular issues can be
made committee members.
This will be a forum to explore policies for improving
the Public Safety (not for venting). Rob Halligan and Gil Hill are
Co-Chairs. Rob Halligan is an ANC Commissioner from 2B01. Gil
Hill is the Secretary of DCCA and long-time community activist. The
first meeting was called off due to snow. Let's hope the second
doesn't get cancelled due to the start of a war. (If the Iraq
invasion starts, I imagine the police will be detained due to heightened
terrorism concerns.)
There have been lots of meetings and press coverage of and on the police
and Public Safety in our neighborhood, recently. The purpose of the
joint committee will be to codify these concerns and come up with
solutions. We would like to spend some time requesting more agenda
items but would not like to spend time giving more examples of problems.
Commander Pendergrast who is the commanding officer for the 3rd District
that encompasses most of Dupont, Logan Circle, Shaw, Adams Morgan, and
Kalorama has agreed to attend.
The list below contains problems and items for discussion that have so far
been catalogued and that we think can be tackled by this committee.
We'll do what we can to address these items.
Preliminary Committee Meeting Agenda
Introductions
Call for additional and future agenda items
Community Policing Communications
1. Contacting the police is too difficult.
Is standardization of method of
communication the solution?
Messages frequently don't get
answered
No officers have
voicemail
Some officers have pagers, some
cell phones, some hotmail, some dc.gov email, some mpdc.org email.
2. Officers are moved around so much that establishing
relationships is too difficult.
3.
What happened to the city's crime
report update on web site, other methods of reporting
4. Communication between PSAs
and between MPDC/Park Police, Civic Organizations
Community
Policing Program Effectiveness
Status
of Community Policing Program
911/311 system (reform may be beyond the scope of this committee).
We'd like to hear updates of situation.
Status of 21 Street fire controversy
Reports of police not taking reports or treating "customers"
with respect
Drug Dealing
Operation Gold Coast Follow Up
N and 20th
P and 22nd
Swann Houses
Connection to strip clubs and possible solution
Connection to prostitution
Getting at the demand - What's the profile of these drug buyers
Prostitution
16th and L
22nd and P
Orange Hat Patrols - George Britton
Neighborhood Watch
Restructuring PSA and District borders
Where does that stand?
What are new borders planned?
Citizen's Advisory Council (3D-wide) Need liaison and support
On 4th Thursday of every month in 3D from 7:30 - 9
Crime Statistics
Relevance and accuracy
Perception of community contrast
PSA meeting reform
Poorly attended ones could be done as break out sessions at this
meeting
Community development's effect on Crime
Youth Education
Knowing your neighbors
Preventable Crime Education
Lighting
Putting laptops in trunks
Bicycle thefts at YMCA
Abandoned cars
Commitment to put duty officer on foot for one hour per shift
New police initiative to have police officers meet every person in their
PSA.
Crime Forum
Committee email list
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