{"id":535,"date":"2012-03-26T22:46:47","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T04:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gnafriends.org\/?p=535"},"modified":"2012-03-26T22:51:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T04:51:39","slug":"tracking-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gnafriends.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/tracking-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking Crime in Our Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may not hear about a crime unless a neighbor tells you. Otherwise you might think Gatlinburg doesn’t have a crime problem.\u00a0BUT WE DO!<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Gatlinburg subdivision has nearly 500 households and police are called to investigate crimes every week. I know this because I get a SpotCrime.com<\/strong> daily email summary with a list and a map of Pflugerville.<\/p>\n

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Note the Gatlinburg streets.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Blue Icon Marks Gatlinburg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u00a0Would\u00a0you like to see a crime report map for Pflugerville?<\/strong> Visit SpotCr<\/a>ime.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What I like are the map icons for the type of crime showing about<\/em> where it happened. \u00a0Icons like “theft,” “arrest,” “vandelism,” and “burglary” to name a few. However, one of the most common reports is the “other” type which doesn’t tell us much.<\/p>\n

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Web site map icons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Actual street addresses are hidden so if you click on the map icon, you will only see Google’s street view near, but not at the crime’s address.<\/p>\n

Enter your email address and SpotCrime.com<\/a>\u00a0 will send you daily updates with ads or product endorsements. Since its free to get this\u00a0information\u00a0the ads are minor inconvenience.<\/p>\n

Neighborhood Watch<\/span><\/h3>\n

What can you do to prevent being a crime victim?<\/em><\/span> Of course, you could install a burglar alarm or other devices, but why not join with your neighbors to form a Block Watch? A block watch group organizes to be alert for suspicious activity on the street by people not familiar to the neighborhood. Neighbors also meet several time a year\u00a0to learn crime prevention methods from the police or educational material. Individuals can volunteer to join Citizens On Patrol and receive advanced safety training.<\/p>\n

The Pflugerville Police Department will help you start your Block Watch<\/a>. Phone Community Services Cpl. Dan Griffith at 670-5514<\/strong> or email dgriffith [at] pflugervilletx.gov.<\/p>\n

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The Neighborhood Watch Sign<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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You may not hear about a crime unless a neighbor tells you. Otherwise you might think Gatlinburg doesn’t have a crime problem.\u00a0BUT WE DO! The Gatlinburg subdivision has nearly 500 households and police are called to investigate crimes every week. I know this because I get a SpotCrime.com daily email summary with a list and … Continue reading Tracking Crime in Our Neighborhood<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,26],"tags":[40,43,25],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-articles","category-resources","tag-crime","tag-police","tag-resource"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnafriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnafriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnafriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnafriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnafriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnafriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnafriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnafriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnafriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnafriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}