Not Good….Neighborhood Advisory Crime and Safety Meeting Isn’t Going to Do Anything!
The Neighborhood Advisory Board held a meeting at the Dyker Heights Library tonight. About twenty people attended the meeting.
The chair announced the meeting on Facebook yesterday (see below). Did they really want people to attend the meeting?
The chair of this group was appointed by Senator Gounardes.
That’s a bad sign because Senator Andrew Gounardes ignores crime (he never mentions it or even warns residents about dangerous situations in the neighborhood).
This group thinks safety is for individuals to take care of themselves….meaning they aren’t going to do anything about what is happening in the community.
Their advice: Buy a dashcam for your car to protect yourself from the reckless scooter and bicycle riders. Instead of dealing with the problems to protect everyone in the community, they want you and I to buy dashcams.
Their advice tonight : Get a whistle and pepper spray to protect yourself against rape/assault (just be careful not to get the full strength pepper spray because it is illegal in NYC. ) Again, there was no change for the community!
Their advice: Consider getting cameras and/or and alarm for your home. Why did this group have a meeting? Everyone knows all of these very basic things!
On social media, a resident asked if this group was going to make changes. The group’s leader said : “I don’t really have the power to change anything but there will be NYPD there so if you have any concerns you would like addressed, they will be there.”
NYC’s website says the advisory groups are for areas of poverty. (See here)
The head of this group talked about neighborhood grants. He said he shared information about the grants on the Bay Ridge Talk Facebook group. No one at the meeting heard of it. I searched Bay Ridge Talk for his name or info on the grants and nothing came up.
Hugs,
marlene
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