Tijuana Escorts: Residents form their own neighborhood patrols
About 30 volunteers started taking turns watching the streets, usually late at night, with spotlights and two-way radios in their own cars marked by a magnetic sign with the group name, Talmadge Watch Volunteer Citizens Patrol. A year later, residential burglaries in their area had dropped 38 percent, car thefts were down 20 percent and robberies down 31 percent.
“We’ve really been successful keeping home invasions and burglaries down,” Waggonner said. “If we see suspicious persons in the neighborhood and they see us, they leave, or we call police. We’ve gotten several arrests of intoxicated individuals who were running around the neighborhood.”
Terry Shirley, who has lived on Reservoir Drive for four years with his wife, said about a dozen neighbors have started reporting abandoned cars, prostitution, loud parties and graffiti.