N E I G H B O R H O O D W A T C H T A L K #3
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nbsp;F.
H. Ernst Jr., M.D.
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Coordinator
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utter Street
Neighborhood Watch
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ULY 4,
1988
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ROPOSAL:
A STRATEGIC DRUG DEFENSE INITI=
ATIVE
as a SHIELD against the drug missiles launched from far off shores and det=
onated
around our homes. Such a SHIELD A=
GAINST
DRUG MISSILES has three phases:
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1=
. Shoot
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their launch pads.
2=
. Shoot
'em down in mid-flight and
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. Shoot
'em down as they are homing in on=
their (sales) targets.
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1=
. LIFT
OFF Phase: This is where the US & State Narcotics Agencies are
going after the growers and processors, especially at harvest time.
2=
. MID-FLIGHT:
The growers & processors need a distribution network & wholesalers=
to
"MRV" their multiple warhead drug packages onto targets.
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style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> Then these missiles g=
et
spread out into the naborhood housing where they can be individually deton=
ated
by the local retailers. This late mid-flight part of the drug missile deli=
very
system is the network of stash houses stretched out across our city in our
local housing.
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style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> In our own immediate
naborhood some neighbors have, by watching closely, been able to time call=
s to
the police to coincide with major re-supply "drops", eg mid-Febr=
uary
at 1705 Sutter.
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style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> By denying the dealers local storage (housing) for their local
distribution activity, many of these drug missiles aimed at us are effecti=
vely
being shot down. Wholesalers then have reduced local supplies AND personnel
facilities with which to detonate (sell) their drug missiles on target. Th=
en
the wholesalers themselves may at times be seen resorting to hit and run
deliveries such as with their automobiles. These have license plate number=
s.
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style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> Deprived of local hou=
sing,
on 05/03/88 at 10:40 AM both "Parris" a retailer and
"Erik", an observed local wholesaler were selling from personally
carried supplies. Then it got too hot to stay on the street. We witnessed =
their
support vehicle, a burnt-orange smaller sedan, bashed left rear fender, California license number 834VIS=
come
to pick them up. They stopped their sales. No more missiles delivered ther=
e for
that day.
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style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> Like in any larger st=
ore,
when the supervisor of the "floor" salesmen has no local housing=
in
which his salesmen can sleep, eat, or change clothes, when he does not hav=
e any
"backroom" for storing "reserve supplies" that are not=
on
"the display counters", when he has no place from which to call =
up
more "salesmen" and "waiters" during "peak custom=
er
loads", then sales will dwindle (lack of supplies & personnel on =
the
floor) like a restaurant with a lot of customers at the lunchtime crush of
business but not enough waiters.
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style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> Without local housing, dealers are more catchable, having no "reasonable" place to get out of
sight until the fuzz leaves. Shooting down drug missiles in MID-FLIGHT red=
uces
the odds of one hitting your own home area. AND dealers are at increased r=
isk
of being "shot down" on the way to their drug missile
"target", the user, buyer.
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style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> By persuading absentee
landlords, like from Marin, to be more diligent about the actions of their
tenants we can relieve ourselves of some of the health and safety hazards =
posed
by the druggies. Many of the houses with absentee landlords are being mana=
ged
by our local friendly realtors. We
are reasonably sure that personnel in these realty firms know full well which of their managed properties =
are
also the houses of sanctuary for =
the
elements of criminal enterprises. They are not stupid! Find out which =
firms
are managing the "mid-flight" trouble houses near your home, then
start making regular reporting calls to that firm or person AND make your own record o=
f that
call, the time AND who to=
ok your
message. These firms know better than you do about the legal responsibility
assumed in taking your call. No response, record
THAT.
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style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> Potential drug proble=
ms
continue at the 737, 739A & 739B Indiana residential complex, sole own=
er,
an identified Marin woman. Call made to property manager, Barbara Shane of
Vallejo Realty Management 11:00 AM Wed 6/29/88. "Not available."
Caller got name of answering person, gave his name asking "Please hav=
e her
call me back at 643-6611." No response from her yet. Caller will try =
again
after a reasonable wait.
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3=
. HOMING
IN ON TARGET: By careful watching, you can often figure out where
retailers have their immediate drug bombs, stashes hidden to which they re=
turn
in order to make their "over-the-counter" delivery on payment of=
the
price, eg 1900 block Sutter one night mid January.
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style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> MIMI 82: Calif license MIMI
82, bushy haired white male 6'-2", making contact with 2 NMs outs=
ide
601 Tenn St, 7/Eleven Store, 04/20/88, 12:10 AM. Directed by the contacts,=
he
drove out of the parking lot to park west side of Sutter north of 1615 Sut=
ter.
One of NMs vanished up Quincy Alley, returned inside 30 seconds, came to w=
indow
of MIMI 82 where occupant and
contact completed the transaction inside 15 seconds. MIMI 82 drove off sou=
th on
Sutter. Drugs?
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style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> HJV 711: 6/29/88 Wednesday 12:09 PM, 441/443 Illinois St: Two =
white
females in dark colored Olds 88, Calif HJV711
drove up, briefly parked in front of the flat-top house with its "No
Trespassing" sign where youthful [African-American] male was ostensib=
ly
washing a car. He promptly dropped the hose, went over to car, a few words
exchanged. Olds waited 'til he had shut off the water, gone into front apt=
and
then gotten into his red 2door Ford, California 2ENU947 parked on the street. The Olds drove off east 40 yards=
then
north on Napa and out of sight, promptly followed by the red Ford. What's to report to police? Two =
of us
in NH Watch saw it! There was no evidence of a "legal" nature. By
time any police could have arrived, even at top speed, the parties had lef=
t the
scene. It's still up to the two of us. Next step we are taking is finding =
out
owner of property. OWNERSHIP O=
F REAL
ESTATE IS PUBLIC INFORMATION! Then we can tell owner someone living
there gives appearances of drug dealing. We have seen AND recorded more than one similar event there.
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IT IS UP TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD
MEMBERS in events of this nature. You want drugs out of your neighb=
orhood
and are reluctant to go at it this way? "It's not nice to tell an own=
er
you think his tenant is dealing in drugs!" "The owner might not =
like
you, might get angry at you when you call or write him." "You do=
n't
have any proof." (Legal compared to social.) "Where's your proof=
?"
The difference between legal proof and knowing what's happening near your =
home
is less than critical as far as notifying the owner. "The owner has h=
is
rights, too." "The dealers living there might get mad at you and=
try
to hurt you if they know who you are (they already know)." "It m=
ight
upset owner's wife." "It's a police matter. I don't want to get
involved." You already are involved. The dealers have already shut do=
wn
some part of your life. Your being
intimidated by the dealers IS YOUR INVOLVEMENT until and unless=
you
change how you are involved.
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"I'm from the government, here =
to help
you!"
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style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> The alternative way of
getting druggies out of the neighborhoods is by police action without neighborhood assistance. In this =
case THE CITY (THE STATE) would have license to go into ANY home<=
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in the neighborhood AND at any time, in surprise raids AND make its search=
es.
There are already an unbelievably invasive series of laws on the books her=
e to
do this. These are called "HEALTH & SAFETY CODES, LAWS AND
REGULATIONS." These provide coverage for the unilateral "code
enforcement actions", the arbitrary, selective raids into your home, =
not
your neighbor's, sometimes because of an "anonymous" complaint. =
In GAMES PEOPLE PLAY this=
is "BLEMISH", to haras=
s free
people. Missing still are the "policemen to do the job." The=
real
purpose behind the proposed sales tax hike? To hire more policemen to purs=
ue
more anonymous "complaint=
"
initiated "code violations", and selective "c=
ode
enforcements?" Take a look at Vallejo "Policies and
Goals" Manual last revised and "studied" 4/30/88. "COMPLAINTS" are KI=
NG.
Ever watched, listened to the arbitrary militants on our arbitrary council.
"Abrasive?" The more taxes they get, the more they intend to gri=
nd
down the free and self-governing people.&=
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STRATEGIC DRUG DEFENSE INTI=
ATIVE
COST
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style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> This program will not cost trillions of $s=
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As long as we are practical and mean business (contrasted to being sentime=
ntal
about the poor homeless druggies, and poor indebted, beaten down landlord)=
it
will not cost any more than now. I guarantee you a "LOVE & TREATMENT" program for your local
druggie is not going to do it AND=
WILL
COST $TRILLIONS.
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style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> A comprehensive SDDI =
CAN BE
STARTED NOW across all of Vallejo. It need not be postponed while details =
of
some elusive treaty with the Druggies is worked out during "An
Armistice." We have the "hardware on the shelf" now, in each
home, to do it NOW!
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ATTITUDE:=
Each
area has good, strong people in it. Maybe not flashy or smoothe talking, b=
ut
strong in their personal value=
s and
ethics, the stuff that good people are made of. There may be place=
s in
town where neighborhood watch would not work. So far I have not run into o=
ne.
ATTITUDE:=
This
writer recently sat through part of another of those CITY COUNCIL
"Policies And Goals" sessions. City Council just does not seem t=
o be
in touch with what counts. Fight against drugs and crime in the neighborho=
ods
have only recently been added (4/30/88), shoved into a new section, yet to=
be
considered, "Human Needs", Policy F or G.
HOSFECES:=
Our
own Vallejo Registry of HOUSES OF
SANCTUARY FOR ELEMENTS OF CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS (Vallejo HOSFECE=
S) is
being kept and built up. Addresses of houses, ownership, property managers=
and
parcel numbers. In it we find local business people, college teachers. The=
re
are a large number of Marin-ite absentee owners, more than from any other
locale. Most owners confronted about their tenants, come back with the sta=
ndard
"I trying so hard" often with story aimed at evoking your sympat=
hy or
pity. "Trying teachers" teach that way, too?
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style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> Several owners are sh=
owing
distinct signs of joining up in our program to clean drugs and the known
criminal elements out of our town.
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From
the end of February until 4/28/88, 80% of the druggies standing around in =
front
of the 7/Eleven at 601 Tennessee St were coming from the Washington Park
Neighborhood. Rare now is the dealer at that 7/Eleven. In-residence Wash Park drug dealers now go to Cit=
y Park.
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style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> The Washington Park a=
rea is
still housing entirely too many dealers for that area's drive through traf=
fic
to support. The dealers apparently have the word in a way they respect abo=
ut Washington Park itself being off lim=
its.
The dealers and prostitutes living in that area are instead heading west, =
the
dealers going to City Park, across Alabama from the Veterans Memorial Hall=
and
County Mental Health building. They are backing-up the live-in druggies on=
the
1100, 1200 and 1300 blocks of Sacramento in the St Vincent Hill Neighborhood Coalition area.
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style=3D'mso-tab-count:1'> Our experience i=
s that NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS in man=
y cases
are (knowingly or not) effectively either hampering
OR working against NHW Programs in their areas. This is shown in the OK Corral: Grid For What's Happen=
ing
as either a Get-Nowhere-With =
or Get-Rid-Of Neighborhood Watch Pr=
ograms.
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bsp; Neighborhood
Watch working with police department is the best and so =
far ONLY effective way to cle=
an up
neighborhood crime problems, shy of unlimited warrant-less searches by pol=
ice
of any one person's home at any time. Self-governing
is usually preferred to the TOTAL POLICE STATE.
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style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> Neighborhood Associations, almost by definition, are SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS, org=
anized
for political purposes, to gain special considerations from municipal
legislative bodies. They are poli=
tical
pressure groups whose function it is to influence local legislators an=
d lobby City Councilmen for certain
votes.
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style=3D'mso-tab-count:1'> They can be step=
ping
stones up the political ladder to greater power and influence. It helps a =
whole
bunch to have some continuing
"real" problem in order to stay
in the political limelight. Solving that could well lose the group and=
its
leader the basis for continuing "negotiations" with those in pow=
er.
As one of these leaders recently said, "I've had all of the Council o=
ver
to my house one time or another except the Mayor and he's coming." If=
the goal is having continuing access=
and
importance to the members of the ruling body "because of the
neighborhood problems," why =
tear up
your own ticket?
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style=3D'mso-tab-count:1'> These, of course=
, are
not the only reasons for a Neighborhood Association. But the reasons are for political
lobbying purposes, some like a labor union. The differences between Watches AND Associations are betwee=
n individuals keeping personal auth=
ority
over their own activities OR delegating personal
(representational) authority
to someone else.
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Neighborhood Watch Resource=
s:
Reporting Crimes Vallejo PD, 648-4321,=
Maryjane Szalan, Neighborho=
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Watch Program VPD, 648-4397.=
County Assessor: 429-6281 for property ownership.=
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Verify the telephone numbers }
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style=3D'mso-tab-count:1'> When introducing yourself to these
offices, tell them you are "=
in
Neighborhood Watch".
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S=
igned,
F H Ernst Jr., MD
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643-6611, P O Box 3009 Vallejo, CA 94590.