Parkview residents met with representatives from the St. Louis and University City Police Departments late in January at Betty and Bob Renard’s house for a discussion of crime prevention in the area. The audience, some 75 Parkview neighbors, were so enthusiastic the St. Louis Police gave a quick block watcher course and signed up a large number of new crimebusters, as blockwatchers are now called. Burglary prevention was the principal topic for discussion and both St. Louis and University City police officers urged residents to be alert and to call either police force if there was any doubt about jurisdiction in Parkview, which sits on both side of the St. LouisUniversity City boundary line. The recently begun Burglary Prevention Survey program was explained and many residents signed up to have police officers inspect their homes and make suggestions about home security. At the meeting and again on the home surveys, police representatives had interesting booklets on locks and home security, copies of Lady, Be Careful, distributed by the Women’s Crusade Against Crime and other literature that would be of interest to all S-D residents.
Originally published in The Paper, March 1975.
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