Hello neighbors: I am sending my January 29th email again. For reasons I
cannot explain, some of you did not receive it.
Doris
January 29, 2019
Hello neighbors in the Third Precinct, Sector 2 and 3: In an earlier email
regarding the Block Club Training Session to be held tonight at the Third
Precinct, 6:30-8:00pm, I mentioned that we are without Crime Prevention
Specialists. For your information, the Third precinct is the
largest precinct geographically and the most diverse. Karen Notsch who was
my Crime Prevention Specialist (Sector 2) for many, many years retired in
December. Throughout those years, she was my go to person with questions
that needed immediate answers. She was the one who helped set up
neighborhood meetings....she was the one that gathered with neighbors when
we had issues that required assistance from the police department.....she
was the one that helped some of my neighbors and me set up a huge meeting
with residents and with staff people from Hennepin County, the City of
Minneapolis, including the police department, when approximately 110 cars
were vandalized in Sector 2 and 3 a few years ago. I cannot express in
this email the value that Karen Notsch has had in Sector 2 of the Third
Precinct. Her passion, her ongoing efforts to be there for us was evident
throughout those many years. In my opinion, she has helped many of us
improve our quality of life immeasurably. Apparently, there are candidates
to fill Karen's position, however, my impression is that this process is in
the very early stages and may take months to fill. In addition our other
CPS, (Sector 3), Jennifer Neale, is gone indefinitely. From my
perspective, this is not a good place for all of us to be...at least those
of us who count on our Crime Prevention Specialists and communicating on a
more personal basis with the Police Department. Based on my experiences,
the Crime Prevention Specialists are the people in the Police Department
that our hands on with our community......much more than the Engagement
Officers... the Navigation Teams and the police officers.
I urge you to get to know your neighbors and if you do not have a block
club leader, please encourage someone to step up to the plate.
Sector 1 (Ventura Village, Phillips West, Midtown Phillips, EPIC areas
which, I believe covers the Cedar-Riverside area) and Sector 4 (Seward,
Longfellow, Cooper, Howe, Hiawatha) of the Third Precinct have full time
Crime Prevention Specialists. I believe that it is safe to say that both
Kali and Shun are working way tooooooo hard to simply help out a little
with issues in Sector 2 and 3. Thank you, Kali and Shun,
I am forwarding the email below so you have some contacts that might help
you during this difficult time.
Doris
cannot explain, some of you did not receive it.
Doris
January 29, 2019
Hello neighbors in the Third Precinct, Sector 2 and 3: In an earlier email
regarding the Block Club Training Session to be held tonight at the Third
Precinct, 6:30-8:00pm, I mentioned that we are without Crime Prevention
Specialists. For your information, the Third precinct is the
largest precinct geographically and the most diverse. Karen Notsch who was
my Crime Prevention Specialist (Sector 2) for many, many years retired in
December. Throughout those years, she was my go to person with questions
that needed immediate answers. She was the one who helped set up
neighborhood meetings....she was the one that gathered with neighbors when
we had issues that required assistance from the police department.....she
was the one that helped some of my neighbors and me set up a huge meeting
with residents and with staff people from Hennepin County, the City of
Minneapolis, including the police department, when approximately 110 cars
were vandalized in Sector 2 and 3 a few years ago. I cannot express in
this email the value that Karen Notsch has had in Sector 2 of the Third
Precinct. Her passion, her ongoing efforts to be there for us was evident
throughout those many years. In my opinion, she has helped many of us
improve our quality of life immeasurably. Apparently, there are candidates
to fill Karen's position, however, my impression is that this process is in
the very early stages and may take months to fill. In addition our other
CPS, (Sector 3), Jennifer Neale, is gone indefinitely. From my
perspective, this is not a good place for all of us to be...at least those
of us who count on our Crime Prevention Specialists and communicating on a
more personal basis with the Police Department. Based on my experiences,
the Crime Prevention Specialists are the people in the Police Department
that our hands on with our community......much more than the Engagement
Officers... the Navigation Teams and the police officers.
I urge you to get to know your neighbors and if you do not have a block
club leader, please encourage someone to step up to the plate.
Sector 1 (Ventura Village, Phillips West, Midtown Phillips, EPIC areas
which, I believe covers the Cedar-Riverside area) and Sector 4 (Seward,
Longfellow, Cooper, Howe, Hiawatha) of the Third Precinct have full time
Crime Prevention Specialists. I believe that it is safe to say that both
Kali and Shun are working way tooooooo hard to simply help out a little
with issues in Sector 2 and 3. Thank you, Kali and Shun,
I am forwarding the email below so you have some contacts that might help
you during this difficult time.
Doris
