Thanks for this Bruno. As for victims being targeted more than once, yesterday afternoon the maniac from number 36a Rathcoole Gardens, who has been harrassing me for a year (he claims I have stolen his cat, though the animal simply roams around the area when not in his flat) threatened me at my front door with 'putting me in the morgue' etc. He returned when I was cleaning my car a few hours later and produced a long knife which he approached me with yelling something about the police. As I circled the car (watched by two gas fitters in the street) he proceeded to slash every one of my car tyres, by which time I had managed to get into the house and call the police. They took something like fifteen minutes to respond. I couldn't even get through to ask for help for five minutes. They went to his flat, found no-one there, and then advised me to 'not approach him'. I heard them checking with Head Office and the man has a violent crime history - may even be 'at large' . He is a short, black Rastafarian-looking bloke (big woolly style hat) wearing denim in his thirties. He lives at 36a Rathcoole Gardens. The police say they will arrest him (when he walks into a police-station maybe?). I can't sleep now and and am getting very paranoid. I seem perfect fodder for one of those artices about 'tragic deaths' due to Care In The Community slip-ups. (the man is clearly deranged).So remember this rather forlorn message if anything nasty happens.
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From: Bruno DoreTo: LocalwatchSent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 12:30 AMSubject: [LocalWatch] Civic centre powwow etcDear all,
Attached, FYI, is the latest from the Crouch End SNT - not to be confused with Hornsey.
I went to the neighbourhood watch question time last night (Thurs) at the civic centre, with a panel consisting of a load of big nobs from the council, cops, and Haringey Borough Assoc of N'hood Watches - along with an audience of about 20 including the usual handful of the windbag tendency. 'Picked up a load of very useful bumf but haven't had time to read it yet. I also grabbed a load more of those stickers that we're after and told Kate S that we might be up for a few more. All in all, it was quite useful/instructive. I heard that local estate agents are pretty good when it comes to borrowed printing/photocopying stuff.
I can give anyone who is interested the main points if you like, but there was a bloke there from the Ham and High, so I'm sure you will get a full and detailed account next week ...
Anyway, given the recent tale (below) in the local press, I couldn't help feeling a bit baffled when Supt Gerry Leitch (dep boro commander) told us that the borough burglary figures showed a 6.5 per cent reduction compared with last year, part of an ongoing five-year trend. I asked him how this could be squared with the claims (detailed below), to which his reply was: "There are lies, damned lies and statistics." ...
Anyway, the top and the tale of it is that this has got something to do with a devious attempt by the Home Office at massaging the "statistics" - added to the fact that the boro appears to have a high rate of "victimisation" (the same person being targeted repeatedly) and also a large number of houses of multiple occupancy - which also skews the already massaged statistics ...
Make of that what you will.
Bruno
> Here's an article from the Muswell Hill Times. There's another
> analysing it and giving good info on nearby Watch Schemes. We should
> circulate this via a leaflet drop.
>
> www.muswellhilltimes.co.uk
>
> Borough burglaries top the list
> By Peter Stebbings
> Haringey is officially the most burgled borough in London and has an
> appalling prosecution record with only one in 19 burglaries
> resulting in a prosecution, one of the lowest ratios in the capital.
> The problem is even more acute in the west of the borough, where in
> the past 12 months household burglary has gone up as much as 40 per
> cent in Hornsey, 30 per cent in Muswell Hill and 25 per cent in
> Harringay.
> It makes a mockery of the Government's claims in 1999 that it would
> cut domestic burglaries by 25 per cent by the end of 2005. In fact,
> in Haringey, it has remained fairly static in the past six years. In
> the financial year 1999-2000 there were 3,084 burglaries. In the
> same 12-month period to April this year, there were 3,184.
> Of these, only 166 one in 19 led to court action. That compares
> unfavourably with the overall London rate of one in 16.
> The figures are taken from official Metropolitan Police crime
> statistics.
> Chico Pacheco, who founded the Park Avenue South Neighbourhood Watch
> scheme, on the border of Hornsey and Muswell Hill, said he was
> surprised by the figures. "We've had very few recent problems," he
> said.
> Haringey police declined to comment.
> 3:37pm Friday 2nd December 2005
>
>
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