MORE BAD NEWS FROM THE HOOD

Car break ins on Greenway.
Drug deal observed at night on Kakely.
Two black male delivery men
in wee foreign make car.
Pale rider customer in SUV.

Hookers plying trade at Crestwood Plaza.
Solicting at laundromat. Why don't you
come up and see me sometime at my place?

Adams Park- Hackett-Weis Rd absentee
owned apartments becoming Section 8
mecca. Source of perps degrading our
neighborhood, including bank
and ATM robbers, vandals, flashers
and thieves.

We rid the neighborhood of the gang
that was rolling elderly women at
the plaza market , and state workers
downtown, some years back.

Recall the trash piled high in the
streets, and litter, at the absentee
owned apartments?

Now, it is all coming back, and
much more. De ja vue.


Dude wants to open a hip hop dance club
in that portion of Crestwood Plaza that was
formerly part of food market.

Just what we don't need in our hood!

If APD can't maintain a presence in our
hood, it may be time to recruit and train
a neighborhood auxiliary force of resident
volunteers to back up the APD and Fire Dept
especially in times of
disasters, terror attacks and civil disorders.

Keep in mind that most of the Albany police
and firefighters live outside the City of Albany.
Like Katrina, they won't be here with us
when disaster or a terror attack occurs. They
will , naturally, be home taking care of their
own families.

Governor Pataki closed the New Scotland
Avenue Armory. The troops and tanks are
gone.

We will be on our own and must be prepared
to deal with that reality.

Joe Sullivan