Comments on: Nationwide Crime Rankings, Norwalk Ranked 284th

By: OLD TIMER

OLD TIMER — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:13:30 +0000

Aren’t they audited at least once a year ? If money, or any donations are being diverted, somebody needs to go to jail.

By: the shelter

the shelter — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:30:46 +0000

Recommendations:
1. Arrange for the health department to take a visit- surreptitiously.
2. Arrange for the fire department to take a thorough look. The place is a death trap
3.All new clients should have TB TESTS. No one is requiring it, when the Shelter has clients coming in from all over the world- especially south and central amercia.
4.IT IS LIKELY THAT, OTHER THAN GENERAL GRIME AND DUSTMITES,
THE DUCTS IN THE FACILITY NEED TO BE CLEANED for other pathogens.
5. It is said that during the time the shelter was being built (it used to be a factory) ASBESTOS WAS REGULARLY USED FOR INSULATION.
THE PLACE NEEDS TO BE TESTED FOR THIS, IMMEDIATELY.
6. The routine actions of staff in taking home donations meant for the homeless is pathetic. They dig through it all and take anything of value.

Sometime back, someone donated an oriental rug (meant for someone starting out in an apartment.) The Caseworker for the females, Ms. Sharon Boyd, asked the man who took care of donations to PUT THE CARPET IN HER CAR.

Superball Sunday someone dropped off a large quantity of subs. Clients were expecting them for lunch or dinner. Instead, staff took them all home.
Food of any value is routinely taken home by staff. The rationale is that they do not make enough money. I agree that they do not, however, stealing items donated to the homeless is criminal.

Finally, some time ago a gentleman donated a Cadillac SUV , with the stipulation that it be given to the families and the staff who worked with them to transport them to appointments, etc.

Instead, the Shelter auctioned off the vehicle and kept the money for themselves. I am not sure how this affected the kind donor when he attempted to fill out “charitable deductions” on his income tax.

Finally, NES needs to accept the offer of psychiatric care for residents of the facility, on site. There are quite a number of people there who are acutely psychiatrically ill, delusional,confused,neuro problems from alcohol abuse, etc. Apparently the offer of sending a psych nurse to the facility once a time was turned down. Why?

People leave and—what happens to the SS checks which are desposited into the shelter accounts? Do they keep people’s money separate? I tend to think in all goes into one pot.

Finally, it was reported (alleged) that the shleter cannot account for THE LOSS OF NINE MILLION DOLLARS OVER THE PAST 10 YEARS…….

By: OLD TIMER

OLD TIMER — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:11:22 +0000

That cab that was stolen turned up in Stamford on Dec 3rd, was in a minor accident, the driver took it up on the sidewalk, trying to get away, and struck and seriously hurt a pedestrian. The kids that stole it have been arrested. Story was in the HOUR on the 18th. The pedestrian is still in the hospital.

By: David Jones

David Jones — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:07:13 +0000

Speaking of crime the Norwalk Emergency Shelter needs to be dealt with it is overcrowed and very dangerous place to be in the staff are crazy and nuts especially a staff member by the name Wanda she smokes crack and weed during her break she has sex with clients she also buys painkillers from clients one day my girlfriend wantedf to sign in at about 6 pm and Wanda threw the sign in sheet at her like she was a piece of shit we spoke to the caseworker about her the following day and nothing happened another thing is that staff gave me keys to open up the 2 houses that the female clients sleep in the following day I spoke to the night person in charge who is named Fred and then I had to speak to Frank the manager of program operations and Izora the director of social services there once I told them that they told me that it would not happen again but this was the second time it happened a new supervisour by the name of Paul did the same thing to have me open up the female houses I feel the staff is lazy and they don’t give a flying fuck about the clients safety and welfare they should call it the Norwalk Emergency Flophouse also the some clients have been staying there 15 years and longer.

By: OLD TIMER

OLD TIMER — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:58:12 +0000

TG:
We agree, once again. Guliani demonstrated that having the police get aggresive about the small stuff, graffiti, broken windows, parking violations, turnstile cheating, etc was very effective and turned up a lot of people wanted for serious crimes who made a practice of anti-social behavior. The devil, of course, is in the details. It takes a lot of manpower to get a campaign like that going and big improvements in accountability, in a city that big.
On another note, the guys who got caught, in the jewelry store burglary a while ago have now been charged with a similar jewelry store burglary in Greenwich, a few days prior.
Greenwich has released video of a shockingly similar, to the holdup-murder in Norwalk, holdup in Greenwich where a compliant victim was shot, but this one survived. There is a big reward posted for the Greenwich shooter.
Norwalk used to have an ordinance against leaving an unattended MV with the motor running. Wonder if the cab driver was cited for it ?

By: turfgrrl

turfgrrl — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:41:44 +0000

Take Your Street back: Okay I’ll bite. Just who is driving around committing crimes? Certainly a look at police reports indicate it’s adults who are doing it, not middle schoolers. It is admirable that there’s a basketball program out there. But what’s the connection to a stolen taxi? Would basketball have prevented the Norwalk Taxi cab driver from leaving his cab unattended and running as he went into a store in Norwalk?
For the record, I’m a big proponent of Fixing Broken WIndows. It worked in new York City, and it should work in Norwalk. Look at Lowell Mass.
Lowell, Massachusetts

In 2005, Harvard University and Suffolk University researchers worked with local police to identify 34 “crime hot spots” in Lowell, Massachusetts. In half of the spots, authorities cleared trash, fixed streetlights, enforced building codes, discouraged loiterers, made more misdemeanor arrests, and expanded mental health services and aid for the homeless. In the other half, there was no change to routine police service.
The areas that received additional attention experienced a 20% reduction in calls to the police. The study concluded that cleaning up the physical environment is more effective than misdemeanor arrests, and that increasing social services had no effect

By: Take Your streets back.

Take Your streets back. — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:21:35 +0000

Point is Turf, we should be addressing serious issues that effect norwalkers quality of life for that matter the safety of our citizens. Mikey may have been over the top but not by much. Last night we had crazies running all over the west side pumping shotgun shells in to homes on Keeler ave and transformers and stop signs. Yesterday afternoon a Norwalk taxi was stolen here and the cab thief ran over a pedestrian in stamford after crashing into numerous vehicles. People Rell is closing the rehabs, the halfway houses, mental health facilities and now prisons. She is cutting funding to the schools. Its more than likely to get worse before it turns around. Tis the season, be carefull peps, its dangerous out there. Now can we, please, ace the silly hot dog vendor non issue debates and work on real issues like getting these kids off the streets and giving them direction? Kudos to the feds and the locals for the sweeps on dealers of society destroying crack. Keep the busts coming. Yes we can clean up our streets and save the children, now lets get busy. Larry Johnson, founder of “Character under Construction” is “walking the walk” . He has organized a FREE basketball tournament open to all middle schoolers Dec 26 at Brookside M.S. and Roton M.S. and championship Dec 27 at McMahon. Forums will be held by community leaders in conflict resolution and inspiring messages. We have kids coming from all over the region to compete against our Norwalk kids ( boys and girls). How about we give the man some support and help him, help the kids. Here is how we can really make a difference, cash donations are needed, tshirts, tropheys, food, – cmon guys and gals, this is where we all can make a difference.

Turf, lets make it count, we do have the ability to help unify and inspire.

Lets do it, do it now.

Too many suffering, cmon my fellow norwalkers, we do care and we are making a difference.

Shoot Hoops Dec 26, 27.

Larry Johnson can be reached directly at 203-981-7607

Character Under Construction cuclarryj@yahoo.com

By: turfgrrl

turfgrrl — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:12:23 +0000

Take Your streets back: Robberies are up all over the state. What’s your point?

By: Take Your streets back.

Take Your streets back. — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:42:33 +0000

Play the numbers any way you want. Reality is robberies are way up and so our burglaries. Norwalk safe? Ask the folks who have been robbed. And for the two that ran hard to get away this afternoon, we gonna get you.

By: OLD TIMER

OLD TIMER — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:30:14 +0000

Today, Dec 3rd, the HOUR (today’s news next week, or maybe later) finally did a story based on the COURANT story of Nov 24th about this CQ report, released Nov 23rd. You have to wonder if they get their news here, or if somebody actually reads the COURANT, very slowly.

Yesterday they ran a story about Chief Harry Rilling trying to arrest a shoplifter at Stop & Shop. The shoplifter got away, but the chief got his backpack, full of groceries. With any luck, there was something in it to identify the guy and he will eventually get arrested.