[Summit] Robbery on Burlington Street

Tue Jul 19 17:33:43 UTC 2011

I can appreciate that there is a safety element on highways or in heavily
congested areas, but I don't understand this law applied so universally when
many of these construction projects involve quiet residential streets and
neighborhoods where orange cones can generally do the talking.

Really, how many of these are going on each day around the city? The numbers
stack up.

You're right about the economy though; burglary obviously doesn't rank
terribly high on the PPD's to-do list.

Emlyn

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:27 PM, <cagenlaw at acagen.com> wrote:

> Patrols at construction sites are important, for both the construction
> workers the're protecting, and drivers who in their haste or carelessness
> might otherwise be part of a tragedy. The question is whether police
> officers are needed for the job or whether it can be done by someone else at
> a lower cost. I know that has been a debate raging in some Massachusetts
> communities.
> I'm wonderering what it would cost for people on a block or other small
> area to hire their own police details. I don't know if it makes economic
> sense or whether the city, as a matter of public policy, would supply the
> police details. (Should a better-off neighborhood be able to buy its owns
> additional police protection while a poorer neighborhood cannot afford to do
> so?)
> Given the difficult economy, I don't think the city is going to institute
> more patrols throughout the city's neighborhoods.
>  Just wondering.
>
> Andy Cagen
>
> Andrew M. Cagen
> Attorney at Law
> PO Box 41604
> Providence, R.I. 02940
> Phone: (401) 529-7339
> Fax: (401) 489-7542
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Emlyn Addison wrote:
>
>  I'm sure I'm not the only person who finds this type of police response
>> maddening. Our poor neighbors have had the wheels stolen off their car
>> TWICE
>> in 2 years and with all these theft reports on the SNA list I find the
>> PPD's
>> lack of motivation annoying.
>>
>> We can expect to see a police officer faithfully sticking to his post
>> (read:
>> checking his phone for emails) at a street construction site all day, but
>> when was the last time any of us saw a police patrol in this area?
>>
>> Off-topic: There may have been a sensible precedent for requiring a police
>> officer to be posted at a construction site on, say, a highway or a busy
>> street that needed traffic control, but one has to wonder how many of
>> these
>> construction projects go on every day around the city where an officer is
>> arguably just well-paid window dressing. As I understand it, when a
>> construction company bids on a project (paid for by our taxes), they are
>> required to include the cost of an officer (also paid for by our taxes).
>> So
>> let's put it to a vote: Would we rather be paying officers to pick their
>> noses for 8 hours at dozens of constructions sites all over Providence
>> every
>> day, or patrolling the streets? Or is orange cone placement so vital that
>> they couldn't possibly be spared?
>>
>>
>> Emlyn
>>
>>
>> Message: 7
>>
>>> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:25:20 -0400
>>> From: Samantha Morse <cherrepaha at hotmail.com>
>>> To: summit at sna.providence.ri.us
>>> Subject: [Summit] Robbery on Burlington Street
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>>> My house on Burlington Street was robbed between 8:40 and 9:15 on Sunday
>>> morning (July 17).  The person(s) jimmied a lock on our back, screened
>>> porch.  They took our laptops and jewelry which they put in a canvas tote
>>> bag of ours.  We believe that we were being watched.
>>>
>>> Earlier in the week, I saw a late-model Mazda CX-7 or CX-9 silver SUV
>>> with
>>> Massachusetts plates scoping out our neighborhood.  They were blocking my
>>> driveway with their car and clearly checking out my house.  When I
>>> pulled-
>>> behind them with my car and beeped, they took off.  There was a blonde
>>> woman
>>> driving and a white male with dark hair as the passenger.  I'm not sure
>>> if
>>> the people in the car are the people who broke into my home but please
>>> call
>>> the police if you see this car driving very slowly around the
>>> neighborhood.
>>>
>>> The police have been less than sympathetic and didn't even send anyone to
>>> fingerprint.  A house on this street was robbed mid-day in the same
>>> manner
>>> at the end of April but the police don't seem very motivated.  I know our
>>> neighborhood is a target, however.
>>>
>>> I'd be happy to provide more details about what happened.  I don't have a
>>> computer at this time so my phone is 521-2393.
>>>
>>> Samantha Morse
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