Last year Palm Beach County crime was down. In fact, for the past six years, it has been down in the County. However, Lake Worth is not part of that trend--this year Lake Worth's crime is on the rise again. Although the County's overall crime stats have gone down, Lake Worth along with Delray Beach, Riviera Beach and Greenacres had increases. PB Post article
There is nothing surprising in this report when it comes to Lake Worth. In fact, there is so much crime here that most of it goes unreported. It would scare the living hell out of you if you knew the facts. No one would want to foot a bond measure for potholes. It is no wonder developers/investors don't come here. They read the stats too. If they knew, the residents would all demand that this city do something about the slum, blight and the crime it all breeds. They would demand that the CRA fulfill its mission of eradicating blight where most of the crime exists. They would demand that the city start with the basics first. They would demand that the commission live up to its promises.
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Commissioners, do you have any statement on this? Do you want to blame this on the last commission too? Soon we can rename LW after all and call it Detroit South.
ReplyDeletePBSO did a great job initially, but over the last few years they basically disappeared. No more neighborhood patrols, no more undercover stings, no more downtown patrol, etc. So, result, of course crime went back up. The criminals know that PBSO isn't here, they beel emboldened enough to snatch a necklace off a customer sitting at Brouges in broad daylight.
ReplyDeleteAdd in the complete lack of code enforcement which fosters crime. I've repeatedly reported a property to both PBSO and code, for years now. Crime was going on at this property, drug dealing and prostitution. I reported the abandoned and derlict property to code at least 50 times now. I've reported it to PBSO. My husband has boarded it up multiple times (since code will do nothing). Eventually there was a murder there, still no code case and still crime continues.
If you call PBSO they are somewhat responsive, but they often don't actually make any arrests. They just come out and shoo the folks along. If you call PBSO to enforce ordinance, i.e. parking, abandoned car, noise, etc. they will tell you we don't enforce local ordinances. Call the city and they tell you to call PBSO. Its extraordinarily frustrating. We are paying tons and tons of money to PBSO and they simply are not doing their jobs.
why don't you embarrass the PBSO by inviting the Guardian Angles to have a presence in the downtown area. the mere fact that the citizens are taking an active part in the protection of their neighborhoods should make the PBSO sit up and take notice.
ReplyDeleteYou all should have run for office when you had the chance. Why didn't you?
ReplyDeleteJust clean it up!
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