Wanted: Soccer Referees!!!
The Brazos Valley Soccer Referee’s Association invites
referees and prospective referees to our
General Meeting
Monday, January 31st, 7 p.m.
Fuddrucker’s Patio
2206 Texas Ave. S., College Station
For further information call Claude Cunningham at
764-2989 or Jere Smith at 846-1565
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The Battalion
Thursday, January 27,199J
The Battalion
is looking for people to fill positions on the following
desks:
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Applications are available in room 013 Reed McDonald,
and will be due back Jan. 31. All majors are welcome to
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Mail carriers keep a look out for crime in neighborhoods
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - They move
quietly down your street almost every day.
They know where you live. They know
what kind of car you drive.
For postal carriers, it comes with the ter
ritory, so why shouldn't they use their
unique positions as lookouts for crime?
"Who better than mail carriers to be out
there as concerned citizens with their eyes
and ears open," said carrier Bill Pick, who
began a Postal Crime Watch five months
ago.
"Most carriers have been on their route
for years — they know when things aren't
normal."
Two months after St. Petersburg's crime
watch began in September, Las Cruces,
N.M., started equipping its 64 carriers with
donated cellular phones to report suspi
cious activity.
Cab drivers, telephone installers and util
ity workers in some other cities also are
participating in the war on crime, encour
aged to use radios in their vehicles to report
suspicious activity.
Not everyone is excited. Last month,
Scott Witzke filed a federal lawsuit asking
that the voluntary St. Petersburg program
be stopped because the mission of the
Postal Service is delivering the mail
police work.
"The Postal Service should stick to what
Congress authorized it to do," said Witzke,
who is studying to be a paralegal. "Anyone
should report something if they happen to
see it, but these carriers don't need to be re
ceiving briefings on what people and cars to
lookoutfor."
The idea in St. Petersburg was born of a
personal scare. Pick's children were ap
proached last summer by a man who tried
to lure them into his pickup.
The children backed away and the man
sped off, but Pick began keeping an eye out
for the stranger and the truck while deliver
ing mail. He soon began asking other carri
ers to do the same.
The man was never found, but what
evolved through months of meetings and
planning was an arrangement with police
that uses carriers as a citywide network of
tipsters.
"Somebody has to do something," said
carrier Candy Shaw, who helped organize
the program and estimated more than 90
percent of the city's 600 carriers participate.
"People are fed up with crime. We no
longer can say we don't have time to be
bothered."
Carriers are asked to help only in miss
ing persons cases and crimes against chil
dren, the elderly or property, not murderer
drug cases where they could be "put on the
line,” said police crime prevention officer
Bob Ortiz.
Every morning, carriers at nine postal
branches read police bulletin boards so they
know what to look for when they hit the
streets.
Notices have appeared about a child
stalker in a light-blue truck, a roaming
flasher driving a blue compact car, a band
of burglars in cars with Illinois plates anda
con man posing as "Jim Hobson from the
bank" who tries to bilk the elderly.
So far, none of the tips from carriers has
led to an arrest, but police crime prevention
officer Bob Ortiz said it's only a matter of
time.
A few carriers in high-crime areas object
to publicity about the program, fearing all
carriers could be viewed on the streets as
"rats" or "narcs" and become targets of ret
ribution.
"There's nothing wrong with watching
We just don't need to let everyone know
we're watching," said John Bourlon, presi
dent of the local chapter of the National As
sociation of Letter Carriers.
"Why put somebody at risk? I wonder
what's going to happen to this program
when a letter carrier gets his head blows
off."
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