Comments on: Clean Sweep In North Escambia Neighborhood

By: David Lamb

David Lamb — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 06:02:16 +0000

Be careful what you ask for. In my 60+ years I have learned that cthese busy body neighbors just stir up the community and create a hornets nest! Makes for poor community relations Some will never be healed
I also know that a churches # 1 responsibility is to spread GODS word and seek thost lost to salvation. I need to ask one question.
If a church is sponsoring a neighborhood watch and upsetting the locals then how are you going to be able to knock on doors and have the respect you need to spreads GODS message. Innocent people get hurt and will remember your behavior for what it is.You then loose your testimony!
I was born and raised in Cottage Hill and love that community, I have no use for Meth labs, or thieves. I fight that battle where I live now almost daily.
THe church is not a social club to remedy the community of its problems .
A tree without fruit needs cut down, the tares need to be screened from the wheat that is the business of a church. Take your neighborhood watch out of the church and be a little more considerate of your neighbor. Find some other hobby than neighbor watching
NUFF SAID

By: Concerned parent

Concerned parent — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 05:53:37 +0000

Oh, they definitely DO look in your back yard and over fences. They do it all the time.

FYI, the breakins have been kids and I have reported them repeatedly and the SO hasn’t done a danged thing about it yet. I’ve even given them evidence, such as bragging on facebook and myspace about it, but….nothing done yet. I am very disappointed. Crimestoppers even told me that nothing had been reported so “no crime has been committed!!! Do you understand now???”

Don’t bother with crimestoppers. They don’t care and don’t tell the SO what you tell them. I spoke with someone at the SO and he said nobody had told him that this info had been reported and there definitely WERE a lot of reports made, including my own house.

By: bjay

bjay — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 05:05:49 +0000

Lets clarify what this is. When I worked with the county we did a few of these. First, inmates ARE out there working. There are volunteers from the community (which never is many) and a good bit from the navy/marines. County employee’s go around and pick up garbage and debris from the roads with the inmates. The cops drive around and basically who ever they see they talk to and run a check on those people. Ive seen as many as 10 people arrested from having warrants in one day doing this . The sheriff always comes for lunch and a pep talk. NEVER gets his hands dirty. lol. All in all it is a very good thing. I have NEVER seen them going in someones yard or looking over fences so they can issue citations. Their goal is to clean up the roads.

By: Name (required)

Name (required) — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 03:51:43 +0000

His Majesty,

Let me see if I have this right… The Sheriff’s office organizes an event in your neighborhood. 100 volunteers come out, clean, police, show support for YOUR neighborhood. You get your area cleaned, and experience a great outpouring of support from people you don;t even know….

AND, your reaction? Your reaction is to criticize the sheriff…

I bet you would complain about a free ice cream cone!

By: wharf rat

wharf rat — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:17:27 +0000

Remember the days of yore. Young men came to Pensacola to learn about Naval Aviation, and go off to offer their lives in defense of America. Many of them came back to Pensacola, remembering the days of their youth, retiring here and contributing to this community. Fast forward….the sailors and marines, are going into the communities, cleaning cemetarys, and cleaning up garbage from yards, and rights-of-way, while the home boys sit on the front porch with their malt liquor and are are really appreciative of all the “entitlements.”

By: His Majesty King Morgan

His Majesty King Morgan — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:50:09 +0000

We did not see His Majesty the Sheriff out there because he downtown shaking jurors hands!!! Being elected Sheriff has been alot bigger job than was expected. Telling the Governor how to run the State, telling 3 Federal Judges to pack sand………1 more year and a half and this egomaniac will be retired.

By: molino jim

molino jim — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:05:18 +0000

REF. USING INMATES TO CLEAN UP—YOU HAVE TO HAVE AN OFFICER OR TWO OR THREE TO WATCH THEM. IF THEY DECIDE TO TAKE OFF SOME ONE HAS TO TRY TO STOP THEM. THE JAIL AND THE S.O. ARE ALREADY SHORT OF PERSONNEL SO WHO’LL WATCH THEM. ARE YOU REALLY SURE YOU WANT AN INMATE TAKING A GOOD LOOK AT YOUR HOME/CAR PORT/ OR GARAGE THAT MAY BE OPEN. SOME TIMES THE SIMPLE ANSWERS ARE NOT SO SIMPLE. I KEEP MY PROPERTY CLEAN—THAT DOES NOT MEAN THE FELLOW WHO LIVES DOWN THE STREET WILL. THANKS S.O. AND MARINES AND OTHERS FOR TRYING TO HELP.

By: mckenzie resident

mckenzie resident — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:18:27 +0000

This is a great idea for our community. BUT I do have an issue with the code enforcement being able to come on your property and behind a fence and look for issues to right you up. Don’t seem legal to me. Sounds like Gestapo tactics if you ask me, but I’m just an ole blue collar citizen.

By: Tonya

Tonya — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:08:29 +0000

I have lived in Cottage Hill all my life. Our house was broken into 25 years ago. There was a drug house down the street. (They found it very uncomfortable to live there with as often as the cops were called and moved out shortly after moving in.) There has always been “shroon” hunters running though the cow pastures in the area. It has gotten much worse in the last few years. We’ve had people take stuff off of our back porch in the middle of the night. I hate that a place that was so nice to grow up in has gotten so bad. Try walking down Williams Ditch now. You’ll get ran over. My sister’s house was broken into in the middle of the day! Another time she had stuff stolen out of her yard. Cops have been called repeatedly. They come out, repeatedly. They waste their time because these criminals beat the cops home. Thanks for the effort to clean up the neighborhood, but it will take a justice system that doesn’t back down to help REALLY clean it up. I do appriciate the effort of the volunteers that came out today though. Thanks for the hard work.

By: CANTONMENT

CANTONMENT — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:19:08 +0000

I LIVE IN COTTAGE HILL AREA AND THE ROAD I LIVE ON IS QUITE, WE HAVE NO PROBLEMS, I DO HAVE A CAMER SYSTEM. BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THERE ARE BAD PEOPL;E OUT THERE. IF THERE IS ANY DRUGS SELLING OR DOING THEY DO A GREAT JOB KEEPIN IT TO THEIR SELFS. I DO THINK THATS IT GREAT TO HAVE A neighborhood WATCH, BUT I USE TO LIVE IN AN AREA WERE THERE WAS ALOT OF DRUGS GOING ON AND THE LAW WOULDNT DO ANYTING ABOUT IT, SO I AM HAPPY TO HEAR THAT THE LAW IS WORKING WITH THE CLEAN UP