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Susan Fearlock is here.
The director of Racine neighborhood watch.
And an event coming up.
Take a taste at a crime.
I want to say take a bite.
Take a taste at a crime.
Is crime around?
Why would we want to?
Well, we take a taste out of crime because Racine neighborhood watch
is different than most neighborhood watches.
We are our own 501c3 nonprofit organization.
Back in the 80s when Racine neighborhood watch was started
by a volunteer group of community leaders,
government agencies and other law enforcement.
It was really decided that in order for crime prevention to be effective,
you needed to involve the community and police.
Sometimes you ask people who is responsible for fighting crime
and they'll say the police.
But that's not true.
It has to be a partnership between neighbors and law enforcement.
So being that we're a nonprofit organization
to keep us funding and keep us going all of our programs and activities,
we have this take a taste out of crime event.
It is the 13th annual take a taste out of crime.
It is held at Roma Lodge.
It is from five o'clock until nine o'clock.
When we first started 13 years ago,
we started at Infosinos at in their ballroom.
We have grown so large over time that we had to move to Roma Lodge.
We took one ballroom and now we encompass two ballrooms at Roma Lodge.
So it is a phenomenal event.
There is wine, beer and cheese tasting, Wisconsin cheese tasting.
Get your little souvenir, take a taste out of crime glass
so that you can sample and sip all you'd like.
We also have hot heavy hors d'oeuvres.
There I've got it from Roma Lodge.
So we've got meatballs.
You've got Italian sausage.
You've got pizza.
You've got fruit.
You've got veggies.
And we have cheese ravioli.
In addition to that, we have the stylings of CSQ.
And that is a jazz band.
Oh, over 100 items for raffles and silent auction.
We also have Wisconsin football player and Green Bay Packer player
running back Gary Ellison joining us at the event.
So you have to come in.
It's a paid event, but he'll be there from five until 6.30.
Wow, what a night.
Is this Friday from five o'clock to nine o'clock at Roma Lodge
tickets and advance are $40.
They're $50 at the door.
You can purchase those tickets online.
You can go to our Facebook page.
There's a link right there.
Or you can purchase them at the Racine Neighborhood Watch Office,
which is at 800 Center Street, room 316.
Look at you. Well, and you have nothing written down in front of you.
I couldn't survive without things written down in front of me.
Now, neighborhood watch.
I gotta tell you something.
Next door neighbor who you know Gladys Kravitz is.
Oh, we talk about her all the time.
Yeah, she's Gladys Kravitz.
She's the one who looks out the window with the minute the siren is heard.
Then when she goes outside, I see where the arms folded,
following the police guard down the block.
And I would say to what's going on?
Well, here's what I found out.
So she is the Gladys Kravitz of our neighborhood.
And you need people like that.
Absolutely.
There knows out the door and see what's going on.
And I poke my nose out.
And right in front of my face, I go back into my little hole.
And I hibernate till the next siren comes by.
Well, actually, we encourage more of a coordinated event.
And that's called the neighborhood block watch program.
And what we do is we work with neighbors to establish a neighborhood block watch program.
Typical neighborhood block watch area is corner to corner on even side of the street.
So what we do is we bring neighbors together.
We provide information about crime prevention and safety.
We also invite a law enforcement officer to come to an organizational meeting for the block watch
and give neighbors the tools that they need to feel comfortable and confident calling law enforcement.
Should there have a problem?
You know, a lot of times people say, I don't know if I should call police.
I don't want to get involved.
Am I bothering them?
It happens if I call and you know, there's kids walking down my street.
I call there already gone.
But we encourage neighbors to do that because it's all a process.
When you call the non-emergency number and you get that documented,
that builds a history for law enforcement.
So that when they come to your neighborhood again, they can pull it up and say,
okay, we've seen that this neighbor has called for this noisy house.
The neighbor next to them called about the same noisy house.
Oh, look, we have neighbor number three calling about the same noisy house.
Hmm, it ticks it up the priority list for officers to come and address that situation.
I find that I would imagine a lot of people don't want to call because they don't want to get involved.
I don't want any retribution.
I don't want the gang coming up my house and egging the house or worse yet trying to break in.
You know, it can happen.
I understand that.
But if you get the people locked up or you get them out off the street,
just get them out of the area, they're not going to bother you.
There's so many ways that you can connect with law enforcement.
Now, you can call the non-emergency number when you call other non-emergency number or 911 if it's an emergency.
Now, a true emergency, I used to say this to my kids when I was working and they were little.
A true emergency is if there is blood, broken bones, fire or death.
That's the only time you call me at work.
That's kind of the idea behind a 911 call.
It's a true, you know, emergency where there are life and death consequences.
But calling the non-emergency number is a way to report what's going on.
When you talk to the non-emergency number, which is 262-886-2300, you can say, hey, here's my phone number.
Call me if you have any questions.
You know, hey, I want to see a law enforcement officer or I wish to remain anonymous.
Further, a new program that we've taken on is, well, it's not a new program, but it's new to us, is Racine County Crime Stoppers.
That's another way for you to connect with law enforcement and report what you see.
It's not as expedient when there's an emergency.
But if you're, for example, your security camera catches perhaps what you suspect is maybe a drug deal going on in front of your house.
You can upload that to crime stoppers and know that that information is being relayed and reviewed.
That's the newest thing providing crime.
These ring doorbells and cameras.
I mean, they a lot of them work on motion only, but some of the cameras, they think, oh, this car has a street for me.
That camera runs 24-7.
And he catches everything.
There was an accident in front of his house.
A neighbor's car is parked.
You know, the guy just plowed into it.
And what happened?
Well, the guy's story he told the police didn't jive was on that video.
I mean, the video camera doesn't lie.
This is what happened.
And he got the whole thing.
Now, they police asked, you know, does my video camera catch stuff?
No, it's got to be in front of my house and it's a motion detective thing.
If I left it on all day, it would be ringing my phone all day long saying, someone did your door.
Someone did your door.
Someone did your door.
So you got to put a limit on it.
But there is a program through the city of Racine police that if you have a security camera, you can register the fact that you have that camera with police.
So for example, maybe there's a car that's involved in the crime and it goes speeding past your house.
If that's on file with police, they can call you and say, hey, can you look between the hours of 10 and 2 and see if your camera caught this?
Oh, it did great.
Well, can we come take a look at it or can we give you a link and you can upload it to our, you know, informational bank?
Never have to see police, but again, it's a way for you as a neighbor to be connected and provide that important information.
And it's so easy to send these ring videos out.
All you do is have to look at it and just share.
And you send it to anybody you want.
You know, the thing is sharing it over social media and connecting with police are different things.
You know, I watch enough date line on TV to know that the first thing you do is check the area where the security cameras.
It's so hard to get away with crime these days.
First of all, I got DNA, which doesn't lie.
I mean, if your DNA is there, you've got some questions to answer.
The other thing is cameras, they can tell where you were, what time you left.
And you can't lie because the camera caught you, your DNA is there.
It's very easy to catch criminals today.
You know, on date line, they'll go back to the 1970s with a crime and say, well, we didn't have DNA or security cameras back then.
Now, it's a lot easier to prove someone is guilty than it was back then.
All your lies don't matter anymore.
So, but you still need people to report.
Absolutely, because like Crime Sapper says, when you say, see something, say something.
It's when you don't say something and you sit on that information or you think, well, my neighbor next door is going to call police.
Or my neighbor across the street is going to call police.
That's what we talk about in a neighborhood block watch program.
Everybody has to take responsibility for the safety of their neighbor.
And you can call anonymously, you know, you don't have to give your names.
If people are worried about that, you know, especially elderly people, either what coming to my house,
well, don't give me your name.
Oh, and you don't have to have police come to your house.
It's really helpful sometimes to at least give your phone number in case they need to follow up.
But if you choose to be anonymous, you can't.
Okay, Susan Fearlock is here.
We're talking about taking a taste out of crime.
Got it right.
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Susan Fierlock is here from the neighborhood watch.
We're seeing neighborhood watch.
Take a taste out of crime coming up this Friday at Roma Lodge.
We talk about watches and there's apartment watches you say.
Yes.
Those are constructed similarly.
Oh, that was hard.
Similarly to a neighborhood block watch.
But each floor of an apartment building is the equivalent of a neighborhood block.
So again, when we do what's called an organizational meeting,
we bring all of the residents together.
We talk about crime prevention and safety for you living in your apartment,
as well as for crime prevention and safety.
What to watch out for in your neighborhood area.
There's also another neighborhood watch we do and that's business watches.
And that's where we get businesses together and encourage them to cooperate,
get them to meet with law enforcement and really set up those parameters to keep them safe.
What to watch for and when to call police.
That quick story.
I lived it in the apartment.
I first moved to Milwaukee in 1980.
And so our building is nice building.
Very nice.
The neighbors were nice.
The guy who lived.
I lived in the end of the hall.
So this guy lived on my right.
Never a nice guy.
He was in the military reserves and he was gone several times.
I never noticed anything going on except one of our neighbors noticed something going on.
Like little kids coming and going into that out in that apartment.
And this guy was his 30s and the little kids are coming in.
And he wasn't married.
Didn't have any children of his own.
Why these little children marching into his apartment?
Well, they call the police and it turns out he was luring them in,
playing video games and doing stuff with them.
Oh, no.
And when they came in, they found all these children's underwear laying all over the apartment.
He was taking their underwear and saving it.
And you know, I worked all day.
So I never noticed it because I got home at night and nothing happened.
One of the neighbors who worked that was stayed home all day said,
why are these children going coming?
Are they called the police and they did an investigation and took them away?
So yeah, I mean, look at that.
Who knows what this guy could have been doing.
And I know the guy.
But you know, you think you know somebody.
Right.
Well, when in doubt we always say let police check it out.
It's okay to call and be wrong.
Here, a while ago, my maybe a year or so ago, I was letting my dog out.
I'm the neighborhood block watch captain, of course, where I live.
And I see over by an office by me, there is a gentleman and he is Caucasian
and he is wearing a navy blue sweatshirt with a hoodie pulled up in jeans.
And he's kind of sculpting around the back of this business.
And so I'm very friendly.
Hi.
Can I help you something?
No.
I said, well, I'm the neighborhood block watch captain.
You need anything?
No.
So I go in the house and I think to myself, should I call?
Shouldn't I call?
Should I call?
And I thought, Susan, where do you work?
So I was about to call and I saw the gentleman pull out a lawnmower.
And so I followed up with law enforcement.
A police officer, I said, hey, if I had called you as I was dialing the phone,
but I didn't, but if I had called you and gone through and you came out to find
that it was not somebody sculpting around, you know, sculpting out the business,
but somebody actually just there for lawn maintenance, would you be upset?
Absolutely not.
Really?
It's okay to be wrong.
We'd rather have it be nothing than have it be something.
That same apartment I told you about the next people who moved in.
One night, it was very noisy in there and it was like one o'clock in the morning.
And I got to get up to work mornings.
So I went over there knocked on it.
Could you please keep it down?
Okay, we will.
And they didn't.
The neighborly thing, but it didn't work.
It didn't work.
And they had people lose the young guys in there.
And they had these girls coming in with little attaché cases at all hours of the night.
And I put my ear to the wall to hear what was going on.
And they said, did he pay up?
Did he do this?
And I didn't think anything.
I knew something nefarious was going on.
And the noise didn't stop.
So I started banging on the wall.
They started banging back.
So I called.
Well, I called the manager of the building.
And he went over there.
So he came over at one o'clock in the morning.
He said, knock it off.
Or we'll call the police.
And that's probably the last thing I wanted.
And that night it quieted down.
The next night it was back again.
The girls coming all hours of the night with that attaché cases.
And these guys screw up and hooping and hollering in there.
I called the police.
And the police showed up.
And they couldn't do it.
He can't go in there because they don't have a search warrant.
But they said they were probably dealing drugs and doing stuff
with the girls.
And they sent them out to get drug, you know, get payments or whatever.
But I can't get in there.
But I said enough's enough.
So I moved.
I bought a house.
And I just got out of there.
But it's stuff is going on in your noses.
And, you know, I tried to be nice.
And I tried to be nice but calling the manager after that.
I don't think cops worry about it.
And so the people were saying, well, what if they get back?
What are they going to do to me?
What are they going to kill me because I go all the police?
Give me a break.
Well, you did the neighborly thing first.
And then you did everything right.
You contacted the management and then you contacted law enforcement.
And then it banged on the wall.
Well, yeah, I might be a little bit iffy.
But the important thing to remember is that
Racines Police Department, all police departments are full service.
They're here to assist you.
Just call.
Trust you.
We always say trust your senses.
If those little hairs on the back of your net go up
when you see something that you think is suspicious,
trust your gut.
Call it in.
You know, I watch these live PD shows all the time
on patrol live with Dan Abrams.
And people are calling all the time.
You know, there's something going on.
There's screaming going on.
If you hear screaming, I help help screaming in a neighbor's house.
Call the police.
Somebody's getting hurt in that house.
Well, even if you hear neighbors that are arguing
and it seems very, very escalated, call the police and say,
hey, can you do a welfare check?
My neighbors are having a huge, just can you do a welfare check?
It's again, call and let them know.
Nothing can be done unless somebody says something.
And teachers too, if they notice different,
this young students acting differently all of a sudden,
withdrawn in a shell.
And they're not normally like that.
It's had a character.
I call somebody.
Call the police.
Find out what's going on with this kid.
There's a reason all of a sudden this outgoing kid is not saying a word.
And it happens with children in the line.
They can't tell anybody.
Because you know, people don't believe in it or afraid to tell people.
You know, it's their mother and father or their mother's boyfriend or whatever.
And you see this stuff on date line all the time.
There's poor kids.
They are abused because, you know, somebody didn't care about them.
All the police on them.
Protect and serve.
That's what they do.
All right.
Susan, hang in there.
Susan Fierlock is here.
And the ticket taste out of crime event is coming up Friday at Roma Lodge.
You can get tickets by...
Going to our Facebook page.
We've got a link online there.
Or you can buy them from our office at 800 Centra Street from 316.
Tickets are $40 in advance and $50 at the door.
All right.
I'd say I'd rather pay at the door.
I'm one of these people.
I don't want you stuff online.
I'm just not an online person.
A lot of you say there's nothing to it.
Yeah.
I'll pay the extra $10.
Plus it's going to be a good cause.
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And Susan Fearlock is here.
She is with.
We're seeing neighborhood watch.
They have a big event coming up Friday.
It is take a bite of that.
I'm about.
Take a taste at a crime.
What's the difference?
A bite of a taste.
Well, we are tasting.
Oh, it's right.
It's a food thing.
Right.
Right.
Right.
We have, again, it's a wine, beer and cheese and tasting.
Right.
But we have lots of heavy hors d'oeuvres and appetizers from Roma.
So nobody leaves hungry.
But it is a great, great event.
Right.
And that makes sense then.
Okay.
Now we talked about house watching.
We talked about apartment watching.
I'm a business watching.
Now this is important because I see a lot of these police videos.
Especially on patrol live.
People call up.
There's somebody wandering around.
And I know they're closed.
And somebody's pulling the doors.
And so, yeah, this is important.
Yeah.
That would more or less be any kind of business watch.
With business watch, we encourage business owners to get together
and watch out for each other, develop things that kind of
old fashioned phone chains or any way to alert one another
or want something happens.
The important thing is to always call police first
and then call your neighbors.
Oftentimes what happens, even in neighborhoods as, you know,
Sally will see something and she'll call Susie because Susie is
black-capped and well, that loses its credibility.
Everybody has to be responsible for calling for what they see.
Yeah.
And people put a lot of time and effort into these businesses.
They don't want to broken into it.
They break into them all the time.
All right.
Teased you before I said, I'm going to tell you why
police uniforms are blue in this reason for it.
And it dates back to the Civil War after the war was over.
They had so many blue uniforms left over.
They repurposed them into police uniforms.
No kidding.
And it just stuck that police uniforms would be blue.
And it has to do with the union soldiers.
And they just made too many uniforms for them.
No kidding.
And so that's why they're blue today.
We're not wearing, they're not wearing Civil War uniforms.
It's just the color blue.
So that's why police officers are blue today.
Good to know.
Good to know.
I don't know what that's going to serve you in life.
I don't know what kind of purpose that's going to serve.
Good trivia question.
All right.
Let's talk about those, the meetings at the cop house,
COP meetings.
Yes.
For saying neighborhood watch hosts meetings once a month
that each of the seven COP houses that stands for
community oriented policing.
COP houses are located in underserved, traditionally troubled neighborhoods
that goes back to the 80s when they were first started.
The idea is there's a COP officer, a community oriented policing officer
that works out of that house and is dedicated to that neighborhood
for up to three years, maybe a little longer, maybe a little less.
Police officers don't live there, but that's their base of operation.
What they found is with these COP houses is that they can also make it
a hub of interaction with the community.
They've run different programs out of the COP houses,
parenting programs,
Salvation Army delivers food to the COP houses.
What we do is the meetings we have at the COP houses,
you have to think back to the 80s when there was a lot of
drugs and crime going on in some of these neighborhoods where people
would want to start a neighborhood block watch.
Maybe there weren't as many, maybe there were some kind of trouble makers.
And so you couldn't establish a neighborhood block watch
because people didn't want to participate and be they weren't
type of people that would participate anyway.
So this gave neighbors who wanted to stay in their homes
and feel safe a place to get together, to network with other neighbors
who may be going through the same problems,
and then also connect with law enforcement and talk about what's going on
in their neighborhoods.
So we still have that once a month at the sixth recene in the one-mount
pleasant COP house.
We bring neighbors together to talk about any kind of issues or concerns
that they're having, and also to talk about good news going on
in the neighborhoods.
We're also starting to bring speakers in to these neighborhood
watch meetings.
Last night we had a meeting over at the Waterwood COP House,
which is on Mead Street, and Chief Alex Ramirez was our guest speaker.
And we ended up talking about speeding and speed bumps
and how prolific speeding is and the different programs
and then in different ways police are fighting that issue.
So there's a lot of information that goes on.
You don't necessarily have to live in that neighborhood
where the COP House is located.
Those meetings are open to everyone.
There isn't enough money in the world on this planet
in this universe to get me to be a police officer.
I just, I couldn't deal, I watch these videos on the Facebook videos
they have at the bottom of me to click videos
of them stopping these belligerent drunks on the road.
And they don't have to be, it's not an old man.
These are young women, young men.
They're all different types of people.
They're belligerent.
They curse at the police.
They threaten the cop.
They kick.
They try to swing at them.
And the cop is saying, now calm down.
You don't have to do that.
A police officer told me, he said, how are they so calm?
And he said, body cameras.
That's, that changed everything.
But these police officers, I've been casing these people.
Now occasionally if you start kicking and throwing yourself all around
they've got to calm you down.
They get to get the cops on you.
I don't know how they do it.
It's a, it's a very special calling.
And they're, it's involved a lot, a lot of training,
a lot of de-escalation, a way to understand situations
and evaluate them before something happens.
The police officers, we have our great,
the community policing officers have set us so far ahead
when the COP officer, the COP model came out.
We were actually the leader.
We had people from all over the world coming in
to learn about the community-oriented policing model.
So we have police officers whose their mission is to solve problems
not necessarily right tickets.
And you know what?
Every time you go up to a car and we've seen this,
when you go up to a car you pull over,
you don't know if that guy's got a gun.
And it doesn't happen a lot, but all needs to happen is once
they'll pull a gun and they'll shoot you right there
because they didn't care.
They didn't want you to look for their warrants.
They didn't want you to give them a ticket.
They didn't want you to find the drugs in the car.
And by the way, just while we're on the subject of police here,
when I watch that show on patrol live,
does anybody have a driver's license anymore?
I don't have to pull somebody over.
They don't have insurance registration or driver's license.
Well, I had one and suspended.
Well, then you don't have one.
If you had one, you would show it to the police officer
and everybody's driving around with drugs in their car.
Guns, drugs, and no license.
And it seems every car they pull over,
you got to be real stupid.
If you're going to have drugs and guns in your car,
don't pass the stop sign.
Get your taillights fixed.
Don't speed, but they do it.
And goodness, they do it.
But I would never want to be a police officer,
walk up to a car.
You don't know what these idiots have.
Most of the time they're just people saying,
sorry, give me a warning, and I'll be on my way.
But man.
Very special calling.
Very special calling.
I mean, and when I have police officers in the studio here,
we have the assistant chief coming in on Friday.
Calm guy.
I don't know how he does it.
I'll be walking around with my hand on my taser all day long.
I think that's the greatest weapon, the taser.
You talk about somebody,
something you want to take the fight out of somebody.
That does it in two seconds.
And I'm not talking about the one with the cord attached to it.
I'm talking about the one.
It just touches in their arm or like takes the fight out of them
in just one moment.
And they don't have to deal with it anymore.
Boy, that's a great weapon.
I'd be using that on everybody.
So have you ever thought about getting into police work?
No.
No.
I'm happy providing, well providing the education
and helping, helping neighbors feel empowered in the neighborhoods
in which they live to know that they can be safe.
And by being safe, it means working together
and working with law enforcement.
And if you have any questions, you always call us for support.
And that guy right here on Lathrop Avenue a couple of years ago,
is that taser's a bar.
He, I think he was off duty at the time.
And there was a robbery going on.
He put himself in the middle of the robbery to stop it.
He got shot and killed.
Yeah.
John Hetland.
Right.
It's just, you know, they work so hard to protect us.
And then I look when people just say horrible things about the police.
Now there is some bad police.
They're bad disc jockeys out there.
I mean, they're bad everybody.
But for the most part, I don't know.
I don't know how they do it.
What's that national night outcome?
Oh, national night out.
National night out has been around for, I think, close to 40 years.
We in Racine and Racine neighborhood watch.
We've hosted that event for 33 years.
National night out is actually, like it says, national event,
where people get together and give crime and drugs a going away party.
It is bringing neighbors together and community building.
So on the first Tuesday in August, which would be August 6th this year,
the way we have national night out in this area is that different.
You can hold your national night out party any way you want.
You can have it as a block party.
We have churches that do events that you have three to 500 people.
We have the community centers that hold different events.
And the idea is to bring neighbors together.
The old fashioned way was lock your doors, turn your porch lights out,
and come and get to know your neighbors.
But it's really turned into more of a celebration of working with neighbors and law enforcement.
People register their events with Racine neighborhood watch.
And then we provide little goody bags.
It's not meant to be something for everyone.
But it's something to help if you've got games or different things that you're doing.
You've got volunteers to pass out to them.
We also work with police.
We work with sheriff.
We work with mugger off the crime dog.
And we help schedule events to, sorry, we schedule visits to those events.
So it really is neighbors getting together.
Last year we had about 35 events registered with neighborhood watch and about 4,000 people.
So that means 4,000 people were coming together at community centers, churches, neighborhood block parties too.
Get to know each other and give crime and drugs a going away party.
The biggest event was right before COVID in 2019.
We had 55 events registered for over 6,000 people.
Imagine it done.
6,000 people all getting together in different places saying, you know, this is my neighborhood.
I'm taking it back.
Let's celebrate.
I think the crooks just take a night off and say, well, let's stay in tonight and watch TV.
We're not going outside tonight.
There's too many people out there wanting to fight crime tonight.
And the game I was thinking of obviously going to say cornhole, those cornhole.
Which I can't do for some reason.
I don't know why I never get them in.
And then there's some little six-year-old kid that gets one and every time and shows me up.
I am so lucky to have great neighbors where I live.
I know all my neighbors around me.
We talk all the time when we go outside.
If you see each other, we cross the street.
We talk.
In fact, my next neighbor next to me used to live in my house when she was a little girl.
Wow.
And then she went out and bought the house next door, which is where she lives now.
The neighbors on the other side, their renters upstairs and down.
But we know them.
They're nice people.
When it snows, he calls me and says, listen, I just clean my drive, which I get my car in the driveway.
And we do that.
So yeah, it's, you get to know your neighbors.
They're probably going to be nice people.
And you don't know until you meet them.
Well, sounds like you need to get ahold of me in July.
And register to have your own little block party on nationalite out.
We actually work with the city.
And they will close down your street at no cost.
Can I close down my street?
Main street area.
I'll tell you where it is.
It's a main thoroughfare.
That's right.
There are some places that, yes, we cannot close down unfortunately.
But I know the close down the side streets near me.
There's a local bar and the Eagles club.
They close down the street all the time for charity events.
And you're on Sundays.
You know, there's a lot of traffic.
All right.
Hang in there.
Susan Fearlock is here from receipt neighborhood watch.
And we're talking about the big event.
Take a taste at a prime.
It's coming up Friday at Roma Lodge.
We'll tell you more about that in just a moment.
749 WRJN radio.
Partly sunny today with a high near 50.
A clear sky tonight.
Loads around 26 and beautiful weather.
Sunny tomorrow.
A little cold.
Highs near 35.
But still sunny.
Right now it's cloudy and windy.
31 degrees.
At WRJN hometown radio refreshed.
A civic media station.
A group of people.
They put a popular on a piece of land.
Weather supermarket.
You can stand.
Before that they put up a bowling alley.
On the site.
They choose to beat the local party.
That's where the big band used to come and play.
My sister went there on a Saturday.
Home dances.
All of my friends used to come and go.
When I come dancing.
It's only natural.
751 at WRJN radio.
Home town radio refreshed on a Tuesday.
Tuesday.
It says Tuesday March 19th right in front of my face here.
But it's still getting confused.
We have the clock here for Beijing.
Bangkok.
Baghdad.
They go in alphabetical order.
I don't want to know what it is in Bangkok and Baghdad.
Just give me the receipt of.
I don't want to know those cities.
We have Kiev.
We have Paris.
We have London.
Los Angeles.
Tokyo.
It goes in alphabetical order.
Abu Dhabi.
Bogota.
Columbia.
What am I?
I want to know the Buenos Aires.
What do I want to know?
Just give me a receipt.
That's all I want to know.
嗟kuh's station northensus.
We never went to York Castle.
If you could look at elections,
Get out there and come to a library upstairs.
Make sure I give you some data on how to go out there and
comment on what learning dialogue
you think telephone learning is.
Channel.
We also offer services to other different kinds of meetings.
One is a community meeting.
That happens when a specific area is having
maybe an upticking crime or issues.
Most recently it's been an area in the western scene area,
the alder called and said, hey, we're having a lot of issues over here.
Can we get the neighbors together and talk about crime prevention?
Can we bring in law enforcement to address and talk to the neighbors face to face?
So we organized this community meeting for the western scene area
and that will go on every couple of months until we see that some of these issues have settled down.
Public meetings are something new that we're starting that will be quarterly.
Our first public meeting is going to be at the Dr. John Bryant Center.
It is on April, I didn't bring my notes.
It's April 24th, 25th Wednesday at 6 o'clock and our guest speaker will be Chief Alex Ramirez
and he'll bring a panel of other law enforcement and talk about what's going on in the city
and that's and be open for questions and answers.
And that is in April at the John Bryant Center.
I used to see signs and people's windows in neighborhood watch.
You still have those?
Yes, you can get those, those little, they've got Boris the burglar
and a little lot, a little circle in line through it.
And those little, they're not magic force fields we always say.
So when somebody establishes a neighborhood block watch,
everybody in the neighborhood gets this little sign to put in their window
and one to put up in the neighborhood.
Again, it's not a magic force field,
but it does let the criminal element know as they're walking down the street and they say exactly.
You know what it's like?
Exactly.
It's like putting the club on your steering wheel.
I've had clubs, this is the club we currently have now dates back decades,
but you know, the police recently gave out newer clubs if you needed them.
The video I watched on the club, the guy said,
it's not important how you hook it up.
It's important.
They see it when they look in the window.
So don't put it in an angle where you can't see it when you look in the window.
Put it where they could see it.
It'll say club.
And they'll say, well, they're going to bother with this because even if I break in,
I can't steer the wheel.
True.
Very true.
And so it's like that.
Let them see it.
Absolutely.
Maybe it won't deter everybody, but it'll deter some people.
It's just another tool in your toolbox for crime prevention and safety in a neighborhood.
So Boris, though, what?
Burgular.
It's not like Boris Benton, or it's the greatest no good.
No, it's not Boris from Rocky and Bullwinkley there.
The world's the world's greatest, no good, Nick.
And Natasha.
Oh, that's right.
That's right.
Boris and Natasha.
I guess it's okay to make fun of Russia.
You can't make fun of a lot of nationalities in the world, but I guess when they do Boris
Benton off in the Dasha as spies.
You can't remember when it came out in the 60s.
I mean, everybody was spying on one another Russia in the United States.
So let's do a quick review here.
Okay.
So we have coming up this Friday at Romallage, it's taken taste out of Christ.
Yes.
And this is a fundraiser.
It is a fundraiser.
Wine cheese beers.
And also hotware derves.
We have over 100 items for raffles.
Oh, my lord.
We have got an electric lawnmower that we're raffling off.
We have this beautiful framed, run, dain, and signed jersey with certificate of authenticity.
We have got a fireball.
We have got items like you wouldn't, but just a whole array of different items for silent auction
and for raffles and bids.
So it is a major fundraiser for us, again, $40 in advance, $50 at the door.
If you have any questions, you can give us a call at Racine Neighborhood Watch.
Phone number is 262-637-5711.
Again, 262-637-5711.
That's the phone number that works.
Well, we're still having issues, but yeah.
You're the second group of people at issues with phone.
I was at yesterday at my doctor's that we're having issues with the phones and the computer.
Everybody's having issues with them.
I don't know what it is, but the office cell, if you'd like to call that, is 262-417-4795-262-417-4795.
See you at the phone number like a 634WRGN.
Oh, I remember that since I was a kid.
I know. We just recently got it back.
It wasn't here for a long time.
Really?
When I came back, we had the number reinstalled.
I know. 634WRGN.
What is the number to remember?
You need...
I can't think of a...
You can do watch, but there's too many letters.
I'm watching.
I am watching.
You need seven plus the area code.
Right, right.
Well, this is good.
And this is how people should get involved.
And I know a lot of people don't want to get involved, but you can be passively involved.
You don't have to sit there on your porch screaming at people.
You can just passively get involved.
Know your neighbors because, you know, they may need your help someday
and you can watch out for their house.
And if you know your neighbors and somebody's in the backyard looking in the windows,
you'll know they don't live there, yeah.
We always say that you are the resident experts of who and what belong in your neighborhood
and who and what and don't.
If it looks suspicious, call.
Yeah. Well, thanks for coming in today.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
We'll have you and you have events all year long.
Mm-hmm.
Thank you.
From neighborhood watch.
Executive director, what are you?
I am.
Executive director?
Yes, sir.
Okay. All right.
How much never executive director of anything I'm like?
I've been with the organization for nine years, so I'm excited to be executive director
and lead us into the future.
Well, that's great.
Thank you, Susan, for coming in.
Thank you for the time today.
All right, don't get.
Roll my lodge this Friday night to take a taste at a grime from neighborhood watch.
I've done Rose and I catch you tomorrow morning right in early, six o'clock
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