Crime & Safety
Neighbors Unite to Fight Back Against Crime
A Springtown resident discusses how she helped start a Neighborhood Watch program in her area.
Opportunity. Criminals look for opportunity to commit a crime. Criminals look for a GPS or laptop in an unlocked car, an opened garage door or a home where the residents look to be on vacation. Criminals look to take advantage of a situation.
On Tuesday, Oct. 4, a Neighborhood Watch meeting was held in the Springtown area. It was held in our home with Nicole Aguon, Livermore Police Crime Prevention, Rich Spivey, LPD volunteer and the current officer who covers the Springtown area. Nearly 20 of our neighbors showed up.
We opened up our home to our neighbors so that collectively as a community we could educate ourselves from the police department and then from each other. We knew only one or two neighbors present and the rest we got to know as we listened to their stories.
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The story of a homeowner who came home and found someone in his garage, someone who did not belong. Someone who took off running with what he could gather in his hands once the homeowner saw him. Another resident just the night before had been attacked in his own home from an interrupted residential burglary. Scary. Some of these stories have been here on Livermore Patch (and the very reason why we said we would head the Neighborhood Watch for the Springtown Area/Scenic/Vasco Area in the first place).
Almost every resident at the meeting spoke without hesitation about how quick police responded to calls.
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It made me think I do not live in a bad neighborhood. I live in a neighborhood where with help from my neighbors we can make it safer and we should report suspicious activity. Where on a regular basis we will meet as a Neighborhood Watch in each other’s home with Livermore Police.
This is our neighborhood. This is our opportunity to keep the criminals out.
If you would like to join our Neighborhood Watch, please contact me, Kathleen, at katlaing@comcast.net. I am one of three co-captains. Our next meeting will be in December.
Contact Nicole Aguon at 925-371-4978 or naguon@ci.livermore.ca.us if you are interested in starting a Neighborhood Watch in your area.
