ColterCommons.net

Right around New Year’s Day we are bombarded with all kinds of statistics about the previous year, but I don’t really get curious about last year until I manage to stop writing the wrong year in my checkbook while paying bills. Now that I’ve officially settled in to 2007, I decided to check the reported crimes for 2006 for our neighborhood.
The good news is that out of over 200 crimes reported in the 85014 area code, only 12 were in the official bounds of Colter Commons, and only three within the inner streets, with the rest occurring on busier boundary roads. Below is a map showing the location and type of reported crime for the last 12 months.

Source: www.azcentral.com/CrimeMaps/

The bad news is what those three crimes within our inner streets were: two assaults and one drug related crime were reported very recently, all within the same 30-day period. Two “simple assaults” occurred on Colter, one on December 10, and the other on December 15. The drug related crime occurred January 6.

If this information concerns you, please attend the next Fight Back! Meeting on Wednesday, February 7^th. We have money and support coming from the City of Phoenix right now, and we need neighbors to attend Fight Back! Meetings to lend support and help maintain control of funds allotted to us by the City. We can fight this if we do it together.

District 6 Fight Back! Meeting
7:00 PM Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Madison School District Administrative Building
5601 North 16^th Street

If you cannot attend, please add your comments and suggestions to the ColterCommons.net web site so that we can better represent your views to the Fight Back! Committees.