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Get to Know Your Neighbors &
Help Keep PM Safe!
Plaza Midwood Neighborhood Watch is starting a "Get to know your Neighbors" campaign. Over the next several months we would like to highlight activities going on in the neighborhood. We are starting with the airing of the movie "Crossroads Charlotte" at Kilgo United Methodist Church on Sept 15th, at 7:00 pm.
We are looking for other events, like the upcoming Fall Crawl Festival, to add to our schedule, too. The idea is to help get the word out about Neighborhood Watch and our local events, and to get the neighbors together to meet each other. If we know our neighbors and have more of a sense of community we are more aware of strangers and observant of suspicious behavior. It takes everyone getting involved to keep our neighborhood safe.
Please send me any events you would like to be added to our schedule and I will include as many as possible. We will advertise through our email trees that we will be attending and ask all those interested in joining us to come out as well. I think it will be a good way to help support you as well as give us the opportunity to engage the neighborhood in our sense of community.
If you have information on other events, please contact Rob Willis.
National Night Out 2009 - What a Great Night!
Thanks to all our neighbors, the NW Grid Captains, CMPD, Mecklenburg County Park and Rec, our local businesses, and other sponsors who helped us have a great night. Over 200 of us got together to mingle, get to know each other, and show solidarity against crime in our neighborhood and celebrate a year of lowering crime rates. (Check out the pictures from the evening) Coverage of our event by WBTV was wonderful. Mayor Pat McCrory came out and spent his last National NightOUT as mayor of Charlotte with us. He, along with most of our neighbors enjoyed hamburgers and hot dogs from Kilgo United Methodist Church. Snow cones, cotton candy, and popsicles were also favorites of the hot evening.
Our local businesses were more than generous with giving us items to raffle. Thanks to all of you who bought raffle tickets. You helped keep our Text message group going another year. Text messages are a great way to keep everyone informed when information needs to be distributed quickly. We even have enough left over to buy some Neighborhood Watch signs.
Here is a list of our GREAT sponsors. Please think of them the next time you need a service they provide. Help them, they helped us!
KILGO UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
PLAZA MIDWOOD NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION
CMPD
MECKLENBURG CNTY SHERIFF
FOSKOSKIES
AMERICAN EXPRESS
GEORGETOWN SPA
MCGILL ROSE GARDEN
JEFF BYERS
COMMON HOUSE
STARPOINT ACUPUNCTURE/WENDY SWANSON
MECKLENBURG COUNTY PARK AND REC
HARRIS TEETER
COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR CO/REVMAN
US NATIONAL WHITE WATER CENTER
CAROLINA’S MEDICAL
REMAX
CAROLINA CIVILIAN SAFETY
CHARLOTTE PARTY RENTALS
What is a Neighborhood Watch?
The Plaza Midwood Neighborhood Association actively pursues a safe, responsibile living environment by supporting our law enforcement officers and their efforts. To put as many “eyes on the street” as possible, we also support and facilitate an active Neighborhood Watch effort. Anchored by grid-captains, the network sets up phone trees and email lists that help Plaza Midwood stay better in touch with each other and get the word out about suspicious activity.
Three Goals of a Neighborhood Watch Program
- Build a partnership with the community to reduce crime and improve livability.
- Instill a greater sense of security while reducing the fear of crime.
- Create a strong sense of community and put the “neighbor” back in neighborhood.
Neighborhood Watch Meetings
The neighborhood-wide watch meetings and crime updates are held prior to each Quarterly Association Meeting, which are on the 4th Thursday of the month in January, April, July and October in the basement of the Kilgo Church. The Neighborhood Watch meeting is at 6:30pm and the Quarterly Association Meeting begins at 7pm.
In addition, Block Captains organize monthly meetings to exchange ideas and information among the group.
How can I help?
An organized Neighborhood Watch program is a big step towards making Plaza Midwood a safer place to live and work. However, these efforts require a commitment from the entire community – businesses and residents. If you are interested in helping your neighbors to control crime in our area, please e-mail pmnwatch@aol.com to get in touch with your neighborhood watch officers and your grid captain. In addtion, it is important that everyone follow these simple rules and responsibilities:
Don’t be a victim.
- Protect yourself, your home, your property, and your vehicle.
- Have a security inspection done by law enforcement professionals.
- Upgrade doors, locks, hardware and outdoor lighting.
- Keep valuables secure.
- Lock doors and windows and set your security system when leaving.
- Mark valuable property and record serial numbers.
Be a good neighbor.
- Get to know the people who live near you.
- Have a way to contact neighbors and one for them to get back in touch with you.
- Watch out for suspicious activity at neighbors’ homes and ask them to do likewise for you.
- Attend the quarterly Neighborhood Watch meetings.
Report any and all suspicious activity.
- Call 911.
- Call 311.
- Share information with your neighbors and block captain.
- Calling your block captain is NOT calling 911. 911 should always be the first call!
Report street light outages.
Criminals like shadows so, if you see a light out, take note of the closest intersection or residence address and do one or more of the following:- Report the outage through the Duke Power web site
- Create a service request through CharMeck.org
- Call 311.
Grid Captains’ Responsibilities
- Serve as a liaison between your neighbors and the Neighborhood Watch coordinators.
- Establish a phone or email “communication chain” for neighbors on your block/in your grid.
- Create and maintain a block map with current contact information for your neighbors.
- Share information such as safety and security guidelines and reports of suspicious or criminal activity.
- Visit new neighbors and encourage them to participate in the Neighborhood Watch Program.
- Serve as a resource or point of contact for your neighbors.*
*From “Neighborhood Watch: A Manual for Citizens and Law Enforcement” by the National Sheriffs Association and “Establishing a Neighborhood Watch in Your Community” by CMPD.
Neighborhood Watch Contacts
Watch Coordinator
| Grid 1 | Grid 9 |
| Grid 2 | Grid 10 |
| Grid 3 | Grid 11 |
| Grid 4 | Grid 12 |
| Grid 5 | Grid 13 |
| Grid 6 | Grid 14 |
| Grid 7 | Grid 15 |
| Grid 8 | Grid 16 |
CMPD Community Coordinators:
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Community Crime Response Team
Eastway Division, CMPD
Supervisors:
- Sergeant Mike Sloop, Regional Area Commander
- Sergeant Brian Cunningham
- Captain Dale Greene
Other Links and Resources:
- Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department
- North Carolina Court System - Court Calendars
- Charlotte City Ordinances
- U.S. Government Web Site on Identity Theft
- Mecklenburg County Sheriff - Inmate Lookup, Arrest History & Worthless Check Warrants
- Mecklenburg County Group Homes
- NC Department of Corrections Public Access (Offender Lookup)
- NC General Assembly - General Statutes
- NC Sexual Offender Registry
- Safe Kids Charlotte-Mecklenburg
- South Carolina Sex Offenders Lookup
