The first meeting of the Cabernet Neighborhood Watch Committee was held on November 8, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. in the Raleys meeting room. Altogether, there were 15 people in attendance from our community in Cabernet Highlands.
Officer Andelin from Reno Police Department was on hand to offer assistance and advice on how best to proceed with forming and maintaining a neighborhood watch committee. He spoke with the attendees, querying their concerns. Many of the issues centered around car burglary and speeders.
Also present was Reno City Councilperson Bonnie Weber. Ms. Weber Hosted a meeting at Alice Smith School several weeks ago to promote Neighborhood Watch groups throughout Ward 4. She is committed to community outreach programs and has been instrumental in several improvements in the North Valleys.
Overall, the crime rate in our neighborhood has been typically very low. However, as the North Valleys continue to grow, the goal of the Neighborhood Watch group is to ensure the security of all our neighbors. Neighborhood Watch programs through, “Neighbors helping Neighbors” ensures the peaceful enjoyment of our homes and families.
The outcome of the first meeting was to establish a series of ongoing meetings to assist with teaching our neighbors better ways to ensure safety for their families and property; to encourage greater participation from more people; to provide communication resources through web page, email, and phone trees that inform people in our community; and to request from local agencies solutions to reduce traffic problems and crime going far into the future.
Officer Andelin spoke on the importance of reporting issues to our community leaders through local agencies.
For Emergencies call 911
For Non Emergencies call 775 334-2121
All others call Reno Direct 775 334-4636
Other sources of neighborhood information were discussed. Some suggestions were to attend the Neighborhood Advisory Board meetings held on the third Thursday of each month. Information is available via Reno City Neighborhood Advisory Board page at: https://www.reno.gov/community/your-neighborhood/ward-4
The next meeting of the Cabernet Neighborhood Watch group is tentatively scheduled for December 5, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. in the Raleys community room.
For information or to get involved, please contact Pat Shea or sign up on the website providing contact information.
Pat Shea 775 721 6742 pat100shea@gmail.com
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Fraud Targeting Seniors
O’Keefe Media Group Uncovers More Evidence Of Campaign Finance Fraud Targeting Seniors
A citizen journalist working with the O’Keefe Media Group recently uncovered more evidence of what appears to be campaign finance fraud targeting senior citizens.
Mr Rubio
In March, OMG founder James O’Keefe traveled to Maryland and spoke with residents whose names and addresses were linked to tens-of-thousands in donations to ActBlue and other left-wing organizations or political candidates. Almost all residents said that they had donated to ActBlue and other campaigns, though all denied making large contributions.
Federal Election Commission data analyzed by Election Watch, a citizen journalist group, revealed that hundreds of senior citizens across the nation had been making hundreds and, in some cases, thousands of individual donations to ActBlue and other campaigns.
One senior citizen had made 1,009 individual donations for a total of $18,849.77 since 2022. While she did say that she had made donations to ActBlue and Joe Biden’s election campaign, she vehemently denied having donated more than $18,000 and was shocked by the news.
A citizen journalist in New Jersey recently uncovered additional evidence of likely campaign finance fraud targeting senior citizens in New Jersey.
Campaign Finance Fraud
One elderly woman began sobbing after being informed that over $86,000 had been donated to left-wing political campaigns in her name. “86-thousand-dollars? Oh my, that’s…I… I did that?” the distraught senior citizen said. Over 5,300 individual donations had been made in her name over the course of two years. The donations ranged from just one dollar, all the way up to $5,000.
“I don’t remember giving hundreds of dollars to Pelosi. I was just giving more like 10 dollars, I don’t remember,” the woman said while looking at the list of contributions made in her name.
On September 30, 2022, 108 donations were listed in her name. “In one day? No wonder they keep contacting me as if I’m – and they keep giving me recognition as if I’m one of the best that they have,” she said.
Another woman was shocked to learn that she had supposedly been donating to ActBlue every other day in 2021 and 2022. She stated that this was impossible since she works six days a week as a nurse.
In April, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) called for an investigation into ActBlue following the revelations. “I write to urge the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to investigate the purported presence of widespread fraudulent donations being reported to the commission by ActBlue, a Democratic campaign conglomerate,” Rubio wrote in a letter to the FEC.
“I urge the commission to investigate ActBlue’s reporting and insufficient security guardrails,” the letter went on to say.
Crime Watch
Officer Wen Wei attended our February 17 meeting representing Reno PD. He presented a crime statistics of crimes in Cabernet Highlands and the surrounding area.
Cabernet Highlands is a very small area to garner much in the way of statistic. Only one or two calls to 911 in the past 28 days.
Officer Wei expanded the search to include Lemmon Valley, Golden Valley, Raleigh Heights, and West side of North Virginia St.
Cabernet Neighborhood crime watch (screenshot)
The image shows graphic representation the resulting statistics in and about our area for the last 28 days.
3 Grand Theft Auto
2 Simple Assault
1 Residential Burglary
2 Aggravated Assault
The graphs on the left and center provide a pattern of the time frame when crimes occur. I was surprised to find the majority occur during daylight hours in our area. This is a very small sample of statistics, and thus, very hard to draw any workable conclusions.
Traffic Speeding
The image indicates that a request for the Reno PD Radar Trailer was posted with Reno Direct…
During our first meeting, calming traffic speed on Rutherford Dr. and Souverain Ln. was identified as a priority for our fledgling Neighborhood Watch.
The image indicates that a request for the Reno PD Radar Trailer was posted with Reno direct on November 11 to address Speeding.
Lt. Conley coordinated the placement of the trailer in Mid December. The trailer was in place for about a month until January 15.
The top box in the image shows the resulting deployment of Officer Coombe of the traffic division on February 10 . On that day, in just 2 hours, officer Coombe conducted 6 traffic stops and issued citations on Rutherford Dr. A follow-up on February 16 for a similar time period resulted in no traffic stops, and no citations issued.
Casual observation indicates that our focus on speeding is beginning to take effect. The trailer was an obvious signal to drivers that some one was beginning to take speeding seriously. The Reno PD Traffic Div. Enforcement drove the point home. Traffic speed has been mildly reduced. Our neighbors are paying better attention to the speed limit in the community.
I don’t believe for one minute that this is the end of the problem. Reno PD Traffic Sgt Bradford told me that Rutherford and Souverain will be on the watch list, but not their highest priority.
We, as a community, need to continue our project to find ways of reminding drivers that we are serious about reducing the speed on our streets.
