On 2 Apr 2001 "List Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"The 5th precinct (SW Minneapolis) has several email lists that can notify
neighbors of crime alerts and other topics." ... and later, regarding
neighborhood e-mail lists, "My first thought was to do the sweat equity
thing - drop a few pounds this summer and few thousand postcards at every
Kingfield home and ask people to email or send me their addresses... why not
propose a Minneapolis Office of Email? ... Maybe a pilot project first."
Second idea first---nothing is better than doorknocking for getting folks on
board. But it is a huge time commitment, and sometimes even the weather
affects people's inclination to get involved. Kind of a middle-of-the-road
approach we took in Lyndale: We had "Get Wired Parties," where folks were
invited specifically because we had no e-mail address in our contact list
for them, and they were active volunteers. We got them set up on TC Freenet
if they were completely new to the internet so they wouldn't even have to
maintain a computer at home--they could log in at the library. Although
many of their Freenet accounts have lapsed, most have stayed on with other
ISPs or, when their jobs allow it, through their work e-mail. It was a
painless way to get the active people on quickly and as they networked with
their neighbors, more people signed up.
Re an "Office of Email"... The only concern I'd have is if we have a
centralized overseeing office, there's the chance that some city personnel
might not take advantage of it, especially in this age of PDAs &
personalized/customized. Right now there's nothing preventing any city
dept. with e-mail from setting up a contact list in Outlook, but before that
was possible SAFE took the lead (credit to Don Greeley and his working in
partnership with pandh.com) in setting up city-wide/district-specific e-mail
lists for MPD notes. If such an office were created but could avoid adding a
bureaucratic gantlet which often delays releasing vital and time-critical
info, then I say go for it.
That said, regarding our intrepid list manager's note about 5th Pct. crime
alert lists... A cordial reminder that all precincts/neighborhoods can
receive crime alerts from the MPD. For the sake of brevity, the
instructions are on the city site at
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/citywork/police/ccp-safe/emaillist.html.
But since that page site is slightly out-of-date, I'll list the districts
that are revised:
The 2nd and 4th Pcts. and the Downtown Command are current on the
site...Third precinct has most of the changes:
3Asafe (Phillips: Ventura Village and EPIC) The border used to be at 26th
Street; it wouldn't hurt for folks in Phillips to be on both lists...
3Bsafe (Phillips: Phillips West and Midtown Phillips)
3Csafe (Seward, Longfellow, Cooper)
3Dsafe (Central)
3Esafe (Powderhorn Park, Bancroft)
3Fsafe (Standish-Ericsson, Corcoran)
3Gsafe (Bryant, Field-Regina-Northrop)
3Hsafe (Hale-Page-Diamond Lake, Keewaydin, Wenonah)
3Isafe (Howe, Hiawatha, Minnehaha, Morris Park)
A couple changes in 5th Pct:
5wire (Lyndale, CARAG, and ECCO)
FiveNet (Lowry Hill and Lowry Hill East, Kenwood, East Isles, Cedar Isles
Dean, West Calhoun, and Linden Hills)
The business alert lists remain the same. In case I have any typos, it's
always best to call your SAFE team to verify!
CPS Luther Krueger 673-2923 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Lyndale, 8th Ward)
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