[TGE-mail] Message from Alderman Kacie Starr Triplett

Mon Jul 30 20:35:45 CDT 2007

  Mr. Jett & Mr. Berg:

  I am sorry to hear that your car has been broken into twice. In response to your email
  in order for us to see success we must start with coming together as a community and working to address the problem. I hope to rec'v your petition soon regarding the NAB program.  I rec'v many emails and calls daily about the lack of police response, car vandelism and crime in our neighborhood, yet when presented with a plan to curb this negative activity there is not much response. 

  Myself and other representatives of the neighborhood organization are meeting with  the 3rd District police officers this week to discuss  how they can be more proactive in their approach in targeting crime in the TGE neighborhood. Its a collaborative process Mr. Jett and Mr. Berg. The police need to do what they are supossed to do, (and I believe they are really trying to do that). We as a community need to do all that we can do as well. Oftentimes we sit back and talk about the problem but do not work on ways to find a solution. The NAB program was an idea to target the problems we have experienced as a neighborhood.  Letters and petitions won't solve all the ills that face our community, but neither will remaining idle.

   The NAB program is the first of many steps to deter crime. I hope to have your support and encourage you to enlist your neighbors to support this program as well. It may not do much to ease your fustration, but I ask that you remain involved in the neighborhood, and continue to attend meetings (I know you attended the Neighborhood Watch program meeting) because things will get better. Myself , along with others in the neighborhood, are working to make sure that happens. 
  Ald. Kacie Starr Triplett

  Ken Jett <kenjett at swbell.net> wrote:
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  The vandals got our car a second time. About 6 pm, daylight, in front of the house 7/30/07 in the 30XX block of Shenandoah. Same MO as six months ago, smashed back side window and ripped out ignition.

  We have reported it to the nuisance number once again. We would really like to see a response in the neighborhood because it seems to have gotten worse with the warm weather. The accountability board is a good idea, but the individuals have to be caught first. 

  It’s making us begin to think twice about the real estate investment here. Once is a nuisance, twice seems to be the beginning of a pattern. Letters and boards are nice, but we would like to see some successes.

    Ken Jett & Brendan Berg
  30XX Shenandoah Ave. 

  The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. --Michelangelo

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  From: tgena-bounces at lists.more.net [mailto:tgena-bounces at lists.more.net] On Behalf Of Kacie Triplett
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 11:59 AM
To: tgena at lists.more.net
Subject: [TGE-mail] Message from Alderman Kacie Starr Triplett

    Dear TGE Residents:

    I have heard you loud and clear. Many of you have emailed me and called me about the recent crimes our neighborhood has experienced. In an effort to crack down on these crimes, I need YOUR support. I am petitioning the Juvenile Court system to establish a Neighborhood Accountability Board solely for the Tower Grove East neighborhood. This will be the first of its kind for a neighborhood in the City of St. Louis.  

    A Neighborhood Accountability Board is an organization created by the Juvenile Courts to crack down on youth offenders. (Many of the car break ins, vandelism and theft experienced throughout our neighborhood are committed by youth under the age of 18. The 63118 zip code has one of the highest crimes by youth offenders in the City.) The Neighborhood Accountability Board would consist of Tower Grove East residents who would undergo training through the Juvenile Court system, they would assemble themselves as a community court and decide on "punishment" for the youth who has committed a crime in the neighborhood.

     Many times these "punishments" are community service requirements that must be fulfilled in the neighborhood. (We have plenty of areas in Tower Grove East where our youth offenders can help out ie: cleaning debris, trash, washing windows of business storefronts, helping out at the police substation, etc). The Neighborhood Accountability Board requires parental particpation by the youth offenders which is another plus. The main purpose of the NAB is to get the community involved and also for the offender to realize the damage he/she causes the community when crimes are committed.

    In order for this effort to be successful we must show that our community wants this type of program and needs this type of program. The Juvenile Courts are applying for a grant to hire staff to monitor a new NAB program, and we want the program in Tower Grove East.

    Attached you will find documents explaining the program more and also a petition letter that you can sign with your mailing address and contact information. Please sign the document and submit back to me via email, mail or fax. This takes about 5 minutes to do. We always have people complaining about crime in our community or the police not doing what they should, etc. Lets show the City how Tower Grove East came together to take back our neighborhood and worked with the misguided and misled youth in our neighborhood. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. I am asking for all petitions to be signed and returned to me by August 13th. Please read the attached documents and sign your petition today.

    Let's take action as a community!

    Ald. Kacie Starr Triplett

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