Time for a new crimefighting acronym!
KTRK-13 reports the rollout of another acronym to take on Houston's surging crime:
Police will soon have new eyes and ears inside Houston apartment complexes with the creation of a new program.
It's called The Police Apartment Clergy Team, or PACT. Officers work with local clergy to recruit married couples to live in local apartment complexes. The couples will serve as activity directors inside certain complexes to get to know the neighbors. From there, they'll act as liaisons between the tenants, the police and outside groups like the YMCA.
"There [sic] role is not to be a snitch," said with Jim Myers Brays with Oak Management District. "There [sic] role is to work with the tenants to make the complex a better complex, to answer some of the questions and some of the needs of the tenants."
It's impossible to make this stuff up. It's like The Onion meets clueless Houston political leaders, with surging murders and an out-of-town police chief all thrown in for fun! Well, fun except for the dead, injured, and burgled victims.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 10/20/06 11:01 PM | Print | Comments (13)
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