Email-based Safety Alerts. Currently, over 150 people subscribe to an advisory system based on email. By emailing us, timely information can be sent to those living in our neighborhood. User participation is crucial in obtaining current and correct information. Over the last year, our Emails and Facebook page have become heavily relied upon to help spread the word.

Crime Based Blog/Site.   We are happy to introduce www.eastmoor.net. This website/blog serves as an area crime page with an emphasis on community interaction. Eventually, crime based alerts can emanate from this site by residents signing up to follow it. It will be the cornerstone of our new blockwatch initiatives. The www.eastmoorlive.com website will continue to serve as the primary informational portal for ECA&B.

HOW DO I ASSIST IN EFFECTIVE INCIDENT REPORTING? Crime and activity reporting is VERY important to achieving the proper level of attention from the police.

Call 9-1-1 for any in-progress criminal or emergency activity you observe.

Be sure to identify yourself with your full name, address and location, slowly and clearly describing the incident.

Call the police non-emergency line at 645-4545 in less urgent matters, matters that have already occurred, or matters that do not pose an immediate safety or loss risk to a property or individual. These incidents may be suspicious or useful to police in tracking current crime and safety patterns.

WHY SHOULD I REPORT THIS? Documentation of incidents is extremely important. That is why incidents, obvious and suspicious, should be reported to police and then reported to your blockwatch captain. Obvious criminal activity, along with attempted or suspicious activity is extremely important to police statisticians who study service call reports for trends and an area’s need for increased patrol.

There are situations that are less cut and dry, and they leave you wondering whether it’s a matter for police or information for an aware neighborhood. In these situations, contact your blockwatch coordinators.

BE A GOOD WATCHER. Crime occurs at all times of the day, often right in plain view. Look for activities or behaviors that are inconsistent with someone carrying on their day in normal fashion.
Is the car in front of you making last-minute turn decisions or appear lost or indecisive?
Is that person as attentive to you as you are to them, appear to have no certain destination?
Anytime your attention is raised to unusual BEHAVIOR, observe the situation and collect details.
If the behavior continues to appear suspcious, call the police non-emergency line at 645-4545. It never hurts to have a police cruiser in the area reinforcing the message that neighbors are serious about their community safety.
Be sure to contact your blockwatch captain to let them know of the incident.