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PSA 1 Meeting

I attended the PSA (come meet the cops who patrol your neighborhood) meeting tonight at Aria Health.  The crowd was small which is great since it indicates great progress has been made on the crime front.

Now if you just read that and said to yourself, is he crazy, then I have to ask why weren’t you at that meeting tonight to do something to solve the problem.  It is as simple as that.

The new lieutenant in PSA 1 is Robert Casselli.  He is looking for feedback from the community through these meetings.  He will go around the room and ask each person what is on their mind.  You get the opportunity to tell the police what is going on in your area.  These guys always impress me with how much they do know.  They don’t live here but they do know the area.  There was talk tonight of an illegal activity taking place in an alley next to a store down the street from another place.  Sergeant Revel says sure I’ve been down there lots of times, alley runs from x to y.

Lt. Robert Casselli, Officer Heather Andrews, Sgt. Al Revel

Where they need help is the specifics.  If somebody is selling drugs on your block and you want it to stop, come and tell them.  If the corner store is open all night attracting low life characters, let them know.  Nobody knows your neighborhood like you.

I talked to Al Mitchell who lives down around Fillmore and Tackawanna.  I have been listening to him at these meetings for the last year.  He tells it like it is.  It’s getting better.  Big problems have become smaller.  You have to stay on top of things but being involved in the process has made a difference.

Living in Frankford is not for bystanders.  If you want to do it, you have to get involved.  Just don’t complain and sit on your hands.

The next PSA 1 meeting will be on Tuesday, February 16th.  You can check the 15th district web site for a complete schedule of community meetings here.  For other police related news including the wanted list check it out here.

And if you want a more graphical view of the crime picture than what is offered on the PPD web site, take a look at spotcrime.com.

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Crime Under the Blue Light

Pratt St. and Frankford Ave.

Its been four  months, exactly, since we first pointed out that the crime camera at the corner of Pratt Street and Frankford Avenue is not working.  For a while the blue light on top used to blink giving the impression that is was working but even that has now stopped.

This came to mind as I was tinkering with this new site (to me anyway) I stumbled over yesterday.   www.spotcrime.com provides crime data the way you wish the PPD site would.  It’s very graphic and fairly current.  Easy to use and provides useful information.

So I said to myself, I wonder if there have been any crimes committed under the blind eyes of that non functioning crime camera up at Pratt Street.  I plugged in the address and what do you know.

Well now I know but you might want to go do your own test.  While you are at it, if you want to compare crime in Frankford with say crime in some other area.  You can do that to.  Makes an interesting comparison.

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Continued Trouble at 4651 Frankford Avenue

From an email to Captain Bachmayer 15th district sent by Mike Mawson at the West Frankford Town Watch:

ONCE AGAIN THE  NIGHT CLUB AT 4651 FRANKFORD AVE HAS REOPENED AND HAS NO PERMITS  AND THEY WERE A NUMBER OF  UNDER AGE PEOPLE STANDING AROUND THE FRONT DOOR.  I ALSO RECEIVED A CALL FROM ONE OF THE NEIGHBORS IN THE HIGH RISE SENIOR CITIZEN APT. BEHIND THERE, SAYING THAT THEY COULD HEAR THE LOUD MUSIC COMING FROM THAT LOCATION.   I TOLD THEM TO CALL 911 AND REPORT IT.    WE ALSO CALLED 911 TO REPORT IT.   BOTH OF THESE CALLS WERE MADE AROUND 2:15 -2:30 AM  AND THERE WAS ALSO  CALL FOR A PERSON WITH A GUN  AT THAT SAME LOCATION.   I WAS TOLD THAT THERE WAS A CEASE ORDER PLACED ON  THAT CLUB FROM THE D.A.’S OFFICE  BECAUSE I DO REMEMBER THAT THE POLICE AND THE DA’S OFFICE  RAIDED IT ABOUT 4 OR 5 WEEKS AGO ON A SATURDAY NIGHT.

When Mike gets excited, it is rarely a false alarm. It’s on the upper floors of this building.

Things are getting out of hand down there.

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Penn Street Resident Caught in the Crossfire

I noticed a lot of police presence this afternoon when I was coming up Penn Street passing Arrott.  Tonight our tipster Lynda gave us some of the details:

For all the Frankford Folks here who may know Roy Koehler of Penn Street, he caught a stray bullet in the leg at the Arrott St terminal today. Please pray for Roy and his family.  He is a great guy.  I hope he will be ok, the neighbor boys said there was a lot of bleeding.

So far I haven’t seen any news reports of the event.  We’ll give you an update when it is available.