Post by FamousDave on Jan 31, 2008 23:16:51 GMT -5
Angels set to patrol in February
www.examiner.com/a-1189625~Angels_set_to_patrol_in_February.html
BALTIMORE (Map, News) - The Guardian Angels plan to start patrols in Harford County.
The Angels, famous for their red berets, have been approached by the management at The Villages at Lakeview, an apartment complex off Edgewater Drive, and residents of the Windsor Valley town houses, said Marcus Dent, head of the Angels’ Baltimore chapter.
By the end of February, Dent said he would like to meet with residents of the Villages at Lakeview for final approval, then begin patrols there by six to eight Angels.
Dent said the Angels spent a year negotiating with the Harford County Sheriff's Office and looking for neighborhoods where it could begin patrols, but has received no response from most communities.
“We want the management company or the majority of a community to want us because if we have to fight against the community or the police or the government, it's just not worth it,” Dent said.
Sheriff Jesse Bane expressed frustration that more communities have not sought the Angels’ help.
“It’s been very difficult to get a toehold in the community,” Bane said. “It seems everybody wants them, but we’ve not gotten the communities to say, ‘We want them.’ ”
Because most members do not patrol in the communities where they live, Dent said he would bring in Angels from elsewhere and recruit in Edgewood.
The Angels have received mostly positive responses at community meetings, though some warned that the group might have trouble in Edgewood.
County Councilman Dion Guthrie said he would like to see more efforts to drum up interest in the Guardian Angels in the Brookside Drive community, across a shallow lake from the Villages at Lakeview.
Brookside has been beset by violence, including two of seven Harford homicides in 2007, yet the homeowners’ association has not expressed interest in the Angels, Guthrie said.
www.examiner.com/a-1189625~Angels_set_to_patrol_in_February.html
BALTIMORE (Map, News) - The Guardian Angels plan to start patrols in Harford County.
The Angels, famous for their red berets, have been approached by the management at The Villages at Lakeview, an apartment complex off Edgewater Drive, and residents of the Windsor Valley town houses, said Marcus Dent, head of the Angels’ Baltimore chapter.
By the end of February, Dent said he would like to meet with residents of the Villages at Lakeview for final approval, then begin patrols there by six to eight Angels.
Dent said the Angels spent a year negotiating with the Harford County Sheriff's Office and looking for neighborhoods where it could begin patrols, but has received no response from most communities.
“We want the management company or the majority of a community to want us because if we have to fight against the community or the police or the government, it's just not worth it,” Dent said.
Sheriff Jesse Bane expressed frustration that more communities have not sought the Angels’ help.
“It’s been very difficult to get a toehold in the community,” Bane said. “It seems everybody wants them, but we’ve not gotten the communities to say, ‘We want them.’ ”
Because most members do not patrol in the communities where they live, Dent said he would bring in Angels from elsewhere and recruit in Edgewood.
The Angels have received mostly positive responses at community meetings, though some warned that the group might have trouble in Edgewood.
County Councilman Dion Guthrie said he would like to see more efforts to drum up interest in the Guardian Angels in the Brookside Drive community, across a shallow lake from the Villages at Lakeview.
Brookside has been beset by violence, including two of seven Harford homicides in 2007, yet the homeowners’ association has not expressed interest in the Angels, Guthrie said.