Overbrook Crime Prevention Strategies

taken from CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2012/08/19/ottawa-overbrook-police.html Somebody said... "Overbrook was simply a place to exist. Most criminal activities took place outside of the neighbourhood or on its perimeter, in Vanier, except for breaking and entering, which did happen often enough in gentrified areas. Except for mischief and intimidation, it was an indoors thing, somewhere to rest and plot. Overbrook was largely a collection of affordable housing units and homes, and that's why we were there. I'm not saying "upper class crime" doesn't exist, but everyone I knew back then lived in poverty or near poverty, almost always had single-parent homes (mothers) who could/would do nothing to stop us, and the local residents also had enough worries in their own lives (which we contributed to) to really do anything to stop or monitor our actions. Help the parents, use plainclothes officers and unmarked vehicles. IMO, that's the best way without further traumatizing the residents with nonstop police presence. I can't think of any way police could have really stopped us without insiders bleeding information or violating basic rights."