Ninth District's New Web Site with Detailed Crime Reports

LSNA has for many years worked with successive police captains at the Ninth Police District to inform the community about crime within our neighborhood. Captain Dennis Wilson has been extremely cooperative in this regard. As a courtesy to the community, the District's "Comp Stat" officer (Officer James Quick) has prepared crime reports covering the the period between LSNA meetings (which differs from normal police reporting periods) and the area within LSNA's boundaries (which differ from the District's). (The reports are not comprehensive and cover a few crime categories of particular concern to our community.) Also on his own time, Officer Quick has created a web site for the Ninth District to share crime information, community advisories, and other Ninth District news.

For more exhaustive crime information, please consult the still relatively new police department database and the other links on the Health & Safety Committee's Update page.

New Health & Safety Committee Chairs to Be Proposed to LSNA Board

The Health & Safety Committee is pleased to announce its newly elected co-chairs for the coming year: former LSNA president Jacquie Winslow and new board member David Searles. The Committee will propose these co-chairs to the LSNA board at the July board meeting. Please consider volunteering a little time to help Jacquie, David, and the rest of the Committee try to improve the quality of life in our neighborhood.

Light Up Logan Square!

Please help prevent crime by adequately lighting your property. You may email David Searles and David Schock at lsnahs@gmail.com and visit the Subcommittee's web page for information about installing outdoor lights on your home or business.

Please notify lsnahs@gmail.com of any street lights you believe are being blocked in a significant fashion by trees that should be trimmed. Please make a note of the location of the street light ("e.g., east side of the 2000 block of X Street, second pole from 21st Street"), and the Committee will forward this information to the Streets Department.

The Street Lighting Subcommittee is also exploring how pedestrian-level street lighting may be expanded in the Logan Square neighborhood. The community identified this as a top priority in the Logan Square Neighborhood-Parkway Plan, and accomplishing this goal will require significant volunteer effort. If you would like to help, please email David Searles and David Schock. An easy way to help would be to notify the Subcommittee of any blocks you believe to be especially dark and in need of increased street lighting. (Please consider the lighting of individual properties on the block you nominate, in other words, whether more street lights are required or whether better lighting by property owners could address the problem.)

Please Join Town Watch!

To join Logan Square Town Watch, please email logansquaretownwatch@gmail.com
and visit the Town Watch web page. Please email park.towne.watch@gmail.com to join the Park Towne chapter of Town Watch.