"The idea of an Apartment and Neighbourhood Watch System in the Kipps Lane Huron Boullee, Adelaide Area should not die. I spent some time on their site recently and I was amazed that they publish up to date stats of locations of break-ins in London and possible means of break-in. Click here to see their site and read these stats and the whole NWL site. "
No Neighbourhood Watch Without Community
During the five years that I lead the Kipps Lane Tenant/Community Association politicians, would be politicians and many others told me that we should start up a Neighbourhood Watch on Kipps Lane. I looked into the Neighbourhood Watch and its sister program "Apartment Watch" and I would have loved to have brought our group into such an effort.
At that time (2006), I saw the groups and City services working or providing services in the Kipps Lane, Huron Boulle, Adelaide Area were fragmented as non-cooperative and to some degree competitive. In 2010 nothing has changed and more groups have been added to the mix. Landlords and Property Management Companies which remain big players in the Kipps Lane Area have remained very silent. That alone has to change in order to cut crime.
The problem was and still is, there really is no cohesive community in the Kipps Lane Huron Boullee Adelaide area where you could form one or more watches. I am not the first person to say that this is one of the most isolated places in the City where people mistrust their neighbours and keep to themselves, even in the higher income parts of the area.
There is no chance of forming one or more of these watches as part of the wider London Neighbourhood Watch Program until the City Councillors and ALL leaders in the area work together to build some cooperation. It wasn't there ten years ago when we moved in and it wasn't there when we left. We cobbled together a small group in the Transglobe-Kipps Lane Complex through meetings, email, a web site and events. But it was tough. $400,000 in, the Kipps Lane Initiative has not done much better.
Still the idea of an Apartment and Neighbourhood Watch System in the Area should not die. I spent some time on their site recently and I was amazed that they publish up to date stats of locations of break-ins in London and possible means of break-in. Click here to see their site and read these stats and the whole NWL site.
