INVITATION - A Safer Dupont: Wed., 6/20, 6:30pm, JCC

COMMUNITY MEETING

A Safer Dupont

The Dupont Circle Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) is hosting a community meeting for residents and business owners to discuss public safety issues in the neighborhood.  Police and Transportation officials will be in attendance, in addition to community leaders, elected representatives, and public safety liaisons.

This is an opportunity to have your voices heard on concerns, issues, and ideas from neighborhood crime to pedestrian and bicycle safety — and for you to help inform and guide the city’s public safety agenda.  It will not be an opportunity for blaming and alleging, but rather an opportunity have your concerns noted and discussed so that they can be addressed productively and collaboratively — if not at the meeting, at least in the near future.

(Please email Public Safety Liaisons Kishan Putta and Noah Smith at kishanputta@gmail.com and noahsmith6@gmail.com if you have any specific issues or information you would like us to provide or discuss.)

* We hope to hear from YOU on June 20 *

(The ANC thanks the Urban Neighborhood Alliance, the Dupont Circle Citizens Association, Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence, and Historic Dupont Circle Main Streets for their partnership on this event)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Public Safety: Police Thanksgiving - 11/22/11

PSA 208 didn’t do National Night Out this past summer. Instead:

 

Police Thanksgiving - 11/22/11

Join us in Dupont Circle Park on Tuesday, November 22 at 5PM for a great barbecue with members of the Metropolitan Police Department. Stop by the park to help us strengthen neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships! 

 

For more information on how you can become involved in ANY of our upcoming events, please contact DupontFestival@gmail.com.

 

About Dupont Festival

The purpose of Dupont Festival is to organize and implement a wide range of outdoor and indoor activities in the greater Dupont Circle area throughout the year. 

 

Rob Halligan
HalliganProjects.com
202 319 1313
(Landline - no texting. Forwards to cell.)

 

July Dupont/Kal Public Safety/PSA 208 Meeting

Sorry for the late notice.

 

The semi-monthly PSA meeting is at the GLLU office on the Massachusetts Ave side of the Sun Trust building at the south side of Dupont Circle (building with old digital clock) Tuesday at 7pm.

 

The Dupont/Kal Public Safety/PSA 208 meetings are now every other month schedule. These are held on the 3^rd Tuesdays for Dupont and Kalorama-Sheridan issues. We’ll meet from 7 to 8:00pm. Our community depends on good communications to and from our police. This is a roundtable meeting where we problem-solve. Bring an issue – no matter how minor. If you can’t make it, please convey your issue to someone who will be attending.

 

 

DupontForum - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DupontForum/

MPD 2D listserv - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MPD-2d/

MPD 2D info - http://mpdc.dc.gov/mpdc/cwp/view,a,1239,q,544652,mpdcNav_GID,1535.asp

Lieutenant Scott Dignan (Scott.Dignan@dc.gov)

Sol Levine - Neighborhood.Network.208@gmail.com

Neighborhood Network 208 Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/nn208

Dupont Public Safety Blog - http://dupontpublicsafety.blogspot.com/

Borderstan - http://borderstan.com/

Borderstan listserv - borderstan@gmail.com

Get Texts or emails notifying of crime and emergencies: http://textalert.ema.dc.gov.

 

Rob Halligan
HalliganProjects.com
202 319 1313

 

July Dupont/Kal Public Safety/PSA 208 Meeting

The Dupont/Kal Public Safety/PSA 208 meetings are said to be going to an every other month schedule after Tuesday 7/19. These are held on the 3^rd Tuesdays for Dupont and Kalorama-Sheridan issues. We’ll meet from 7 to 8:00pm. Our community depends on good communications to and from our police. This is a roundtable meeting where we problem-solve. Bring an issue – no matter how minor. If you can’t make it, please convey your issue to someone who will be attending.

 

 

DupontForum - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DupontForum/

MPD 2D listserv - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MPD-2d/

MPD 2D info - http://mpdc.dc.gov/mpdc/cwp/view,a,1239,q,544652,mpdcNav_GID,1535.asp

Lieutenant Scott Dignan (Scott.Dignan@dc.gov)

Sol Levine - Neighborhood.Network.208@gmail.com

Neighborhood Network 208 Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/nn208

Dupont Public Safety Blog - http://dupontpublicsafety.blogspot.com/

Borderstan - http://borderstan.com/

Borderstan listserv - borderstan@gmail.com

Get Texts or emails notifying of crime and emergencies: http://textalert.ema.dc.gov.

 

Rob Halligan
HalliganProjects.com
202 319 1313

 

Sentences in Cases We Submitted Community Impact Statements

1)Wayne Bridgeforth was sentenced to 4 years plus 1 year for his parole violation. 5 years is very good in that he’s received 1 to 2 years for previous similar crimes. We had 5 Community Impact Statements (last I heard). I went down to the sentencing hearing to testify this morning.

 

2) Craven Kemp got 22 months. He admitted to 12 burglaries. We got in 4 or 5 Community Impact Statements. I can’t say I find that as just; that’s less than 2 months per burglary. He does have a shorter record of convictions.

 

Thanks to the community members who allowed MPD to set up a sting operation in their house. Thanks to MPD for that effort and the rest of their efforts. Thanks to US Attorneys Anita LaRue and Stephan Rickard their efforts – especially in working with the Community Impact Statements.  Thanks to CM Phil Mendelson for passing a provision in the last Omnibus Crime Act that allows continued minor offenses to be prosecuted as felonies.  Lastly, many  thanks to all those who wrote Community Impact Statements.

 

If you ever think dramatizations of court room scenes capture the real life drama, head to a  sentencing hearings room next time you get called for jury duty. MPD makes over 50,000 arrest a year. That 15 minute sentencing hearing on the conveyer belt of justice is real drama particularly in the moments the judge hands down that sentence and the moment the convicted is lead off to jail.

 

Rob Halligan
HalliganProjects.com
202 319 1313
(Landline - no texting. Forwards to cell.)

 

3 Reminders - PSA Venue Change, Re-Districting Meeting, Com Impacts

Tuesday – PSA Meeting in Conn/M Club Zone. June 21 at the Palladium Condominium, 1325 18th St. NW, Top Floor Community Room (between Mass Ave and N Street). We’re happy to have the meeting there in light of continuing issues with the Connecticut and M club zone. See Below.

 

Wed – 2D CAC Meeting with Chief Lanier to discuss PSA and District Border Changes.  June 22 Second District Station, 3320 Idaho Avenue, NW, that’s behind the Wisconsin Ave Giant, 7 pm. I met with Chief Lanier last week. Seems she wants to see strong community interest if we are to modify the proposal that splits Dupont and 17^th Street into 2 different districts.  Please show up; if you are representing a group, please make that clear.

 

Tomorrow (Friday) – Requested last day to get US Attorney LaRue Community Impact Statements on the Wayne Bridgeforth case. His sentencing hearing is the 24^th. Keep in mind that these are separate from Victim Impact Statements. These letters can/should be about how his crimes affect the community in general.

 

 

Rob Halligan
HalliganProjects.com
202 319 1313
(Landline - no texting. Forwards to cell.)

 

From: Rob Halligan [mailto:Rob@HalliganProjects.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 10:02 AM
To: DupontForum (DupontForum@yahoogroups.com)
Subject: June Dupont/Kal Public Safety/PSA 208 Meeting - Venue Change Reminder

 

When we can, we like to move the monthly Public Safety Meeting around to different venues. That tends to draw new people out and makes for a good meeting.

 

June 21 at the Palladium Condominium, 1325 18th St. NW, Top Floor Community Room (between Mass Ave and N Street). We’re happy to have the meeting down there in light of continuing issues with the Connecticut and M club zone.

 

We’ll meet from 7 to 8:00pm These are held on the 3^rd Tuesdays for Dupont and Kalorama-Sheridan issues. Our community depends on good communications to and from our police. This is a roundtable meeting where we problem-solve. Bring an issue – no matter how minor. If you can’t make it, please convey your issue to someone who will be attending.

 

 

DupontForum - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DupontForum/

MPD 2D listserv - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MPD-2d/

MPD 2D info - http://mpdc.dc.gov/mpdc/cwp/view,a,1239,q,544652,mpdcNav_GID,1535.asp

Lieutenant Scott Dignan (Scott.Dignan@dc.gov)

Sol Levine - Neighborhood.Network.208@gmail.com

Neighborhood Network 208 Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/nn208

Dupont Public Safety Blog - http://dupontpublicsafety.blogspot.com/

Borderstan - http://borderstan.com/

Borderstan listserv - borderstan@gmail.com

Get Texts or emails notifying of crime and emergencies: http://textalert.ema.dc.gov.

 

Rob Halligan
HalliganProjects.com
202 319 1313

 

Plea For Letters to the Judge - WAYNE BRIDGEFORTH, Case 2011 CF2 000397

I’ve written quite a few times about Wayne Bridgeforth’s serial criminal behavior. He’s a poster child for the dysfunctionality of our criminal justice system. It seems like he prefers prison to freedom; a few months after he gets out, he’s always back in. This is one guy who makes me wish we had a 3 (or 30) strikes you’re out law. (I’ve personally gotten him arrested about 6 times and did get a provision in the last ominous crime act that is supposed to allow for more serious sentences for chronic offenders.) Well, he’s up for sentencing again on June 24^th. The US Attorney would like Community Impact Statements by this Friday the 17th.

You can check Wayne Bridgeforth’s record and the present case against him by going to: DCCourts.gov, Court Cases Online, from that search page you can input his name in the search field. You can see his entire record of 35 convictions and 31 more that are under Wayne Bridgeford that I hear are his as well.

Attached is a Community Impact Statement form. You address how his crimes affect your community. If your saw disappeared from your parking spot while you went in the house for a second, it was likely Wayne who stole it. If someone broke your car window to steal the CDs from under your seat it could have been Wayne. If your mail was stolen it could have been Wayne. If a package was stolen from your stoop…I’ve witnessed him perpetrate all of these crimes – some of them several times.

The US Attorney’s Office is again asking for the community’s help on some cases. I understand we got 4 Community Impact Statements on the Craven Kemp case. 5 years ago when the US Attorney’s Office was working with us to Community Impact Statements we got 20 on a few cases. I’d love to see 20 on this Bridgeforth case. Please take the time to show that judge that we don’t want this guy back on our streets in 13 months. Just take a few minutes to look at his record, realize most of those convictions were after he got away with similar crimes for a couple months before he was caught again, and realize that almost all of them were in the Dupont blocks from 1400 east to 2000 on the west.

Please send a Community Impact Statement by Friday to US Attorney Anita LaRue (anita.larue@usdoj.gov) .

Rob Halligan
HalliganProjects.com
202 319 1313

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