During the month of October, Bethlehem Tp police investigated 78 accidents involving 153 vehicles and 14 injuries. They issued 101 traffic citations and 154 written warnings. They made 40 misdemeanor and felony arrests and three summary citations. There were also three DUI arrests.
The Bethlehem Township Police Citizen’s Police Academy was resurrected after a several year hiatus. Twenty-nine township residents and other interested citizens began classes and will meet and be instructed by many township officers.
You can read more about the Township police department and their investigations on their Facebook page, Bethlehem Township Police Department.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015
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In addition, there was a meeting held at the township building last night attended by approx 75 residents who formed a neighborhood watch group due to the increase in crime.
ReplyDeleteResidents charged that the crimes are being committed by students at NCC who live in the new dorms.
I have heard of some instances of students or visitors at the new dorms being in one of the neighborhoods for no legitimate reason, but would like to know what police think about whether NCC students are a source of township crime.
ReplyDeleteI attended the meeting and residents were in agreement that since the addition of the new dorms, car breakins and one stolen vehicle have occurred. The recruiting of out of town inner city youths to fill the dorms is probable cause said many.
ReplyDeleteBut is it true? I presume police were there. What did they say?
ReplyDeleteDetective Stevens ran the event and the many residents in attendance including Tom Nolan were in agreement that since the addition of the new dorms, petty crime has increased. Numerous residents noticed and spoke of the students walking thru the neighborhood at all hours of the day to get to the shopping center and as no one has been caught yet, the assumptions are it's the out of town students.
ReplyDeleteSurprisingly, no one from NCC was in attendance and per Det Stevens, they could not make the meeting.
So police are not making arrests of NCC students? Because students are seen walking thru neighborhoods to and from a shopping center, it necessarily follows that they are criminals?
ReplyDeleteCorrect.
ReplyDeleteWell, that is a bit of a stretch. But I would agree that a rash of crime is good reason for a block watch.
ReplyDeleteI'd also agree that NCC should be asked to attend your next meeting.
ReplyDeleteThe "Dorms" were the big mistake. As a "community college" why dorm's for out of the area students? NCCC was always filled with administrators looking for the dollars. They are too many and paid too much.
ReplyDeleteOlder commuting students and attendees of senior classes have complained of being fearful when being followed on a dark campus in empty parking lots.
The need to bring in inner city thugs was all about the money. Of course crime came with it. The entire idea of a community college was bastardized, they have no standards, if admission is just a check, often they come on some sort of low income program. The place was once great to get a class or two and now it is its own kittle ghetto.
Shameful. The dorms should be closed and the college returned to the community. Of course that will mean pruning some of the overpaid administrators who are sucking up the money.
Just a taxpayer
Obviously, you know nothing about what really is an excellent school.
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