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At the 17th SECPID meeting, Mr. Jim Steele with the EBRP District Attorney’s office will be presenting more information on the attached subject matter. It is an initiative from the DA’s office, Mr. Hillar Moore, and if we elect to participate, we will be only the second area in EBR to be using this technique.....the first one is in Tiger Town
Thanks for contacting me. My info is below. I have CC’d Will Morris who is the Chief of our Crime Strategies Unit. My project is the Hide Lock Take Campaign. Simply put it is the target hardening component of the strategy most crime prevention districts are doing to greater or lesser extents. I hove found that most hire off duty officers or deputies, a number of them use lighting and landscaping or blight control as part of their strategy, cameras are another part I’ve noticed, and Tigerland has just purchased a license plate reader that alerts the PD when a stolen or wanted vehicle enters the neighborhood.
I adapted this from some very successful projects in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. Two of which won awards from the Herman Goldstein Excellence in Problem Oriented Policing Foundation (see below). The reason I am so passionate about this is every day in Baton Rouge or the surrounding parishes at least one firearm is stolen from an unlocked vehicle. These guns enter the crime
gun market and are sold/traded eventually making their way to Baton Rouge where we see them involved in robberies and shootings. And, there are a number of serial shooters in the Baton Rouge area. As I am writing this the sheriff’s office just connected a firearm that was fired in an armed robbery then used in an attempted murder investigated by BRPD.
As you can see these strategies have been around for a while. And, since your organization already has cameras, increased patrols, and a communication strategy by adding this to the mix it will only act as a force multiplier. I have included a copy of the sign I had made for our apartment complex that DA’s investigators work an off duty detail at, as well as the push cards we use as we patrol the complex. I don’t know how effective the push cards would be for you, but if there are any vehicles parked on the street it would be worthwhile to hit them with a card. If your organization decides to go this route, you can personalize these with your own logo, or work with Crime Stoppers to have the signs made/cards printed. I had six made using a composite material the size of a parking sign and it cost me $90.00. If you bought more, the cost/sign would certainly decrease. And, they could be posted at the entrances or where any neighborhood watch sign is located.