CRJ 102 – 0502 | Criminology | Professor Satenik Margaryan| Fall 2022

Below are various strategies that the community has implemented under Crime prevention through environmental designs (CPTED). All strategies implemented follow the CPTED principle of both structural and landscape analysis.

The above picture is of children’s park crime prevention through environmental designs (CPTED) has been used to increase security while preventing crime. Fencing is a landscape analysis intervention that can be used to prevent crime by creating a boundary. In addition to the fence, the use of proper lighting has been implemented to secure the place even further. This clears the risk of having any blind or dark corners that can facilitate crime.

The use of cameras and lighting to prevent crime has been well implemented by putting into consideration the structural analysis which looks at the interior of a premise. The use of cameras as a crime prevention tool allows for functional surveillance of a building either from outside or inside the structure. This gives the security a chance to have constant access to the structure in case of an incident but also reduces the risk of crime within the building. Adequate lighting is important to allow for visibility where all persons can be identified.

Landscape analysis in business premises is a key and important aspect to be considered including the entranceways and lighting. The above picture illustrates a business premise that has adequate lighting on its entrance way which means there is clear visibility coming into the building in the evening hours. The use of glass doors, entryway buzzer, and key fab are ways that increase crime prevention. Having all these functions installed at the entryway means that there is no direct access to the building without prior permission. Employees are assured of security since there is a security check at the entryway which prevents unauthorized persons from gaining access to the building. These features are part of the crime prevention environmental designs that increase security within the community.

One way my neighborhood tries to prevent crime is with these devices right here around almost every building. You can call people or you punch in a code to open the door. In most building these don’t work and its pretty sad because it could help save a lot of lives.

Fareeza Mohamed

How do we prevent crimes in our communities?

One of my biggest goals is to have a safe environment with my family, friends, and neighbors. It does not matter where you live you can always make your community a safer place. They are many ways in which you can prevent crimes. In this assignment, I was able to navigate a number of things to do to keep my community safer. There are :

• Report dangerous behavior to the police

• Get involved
• Know your neighbors and your surroundings.
• Setting up a neighborhood watch or a community patrol, working with police.
• Clean up your community.
• organize clean up and improve parks.
• Always close and lock doors.
• trim trees to prevent electronic damage
• Install cameras at blind spots.
• improve street lights.
• educate everyone about violence.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-sergei-shoigu-climate-and-environment-government-politics-6ea801e22edee2d25c1e24d613f18e4a?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_02

Summary:

I think when someone asks to find us good news and make it into their own words that will help us socially two things. One is to know more about the world and search how it can be solved. Another one is to spread that news around the world. I chose this article because today we can see many wars going on around the world. Recently the Ukraine and Russia war have made people more worried about nuclear weapons. When a country fights against a big country who has nuclear weapons that will destroy the economy and people’s lives. In this article Russia was saying that Ukrainian were making dirty bomb which is dangerous for them without showings any evidence that makes people more worried. We don’t want to see any war anymore which can destroy a family without any reason.

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2022-10-26/man-convicted-of-killing-6-with-suv-in-christmas-parade

Summary: A Wisconsin man was convicted Wednesday of killing six people and injuring dozens of others when he drove his SUV through a Christmas parade.

https://nypost.com/2022/10/26/teen-16-stabs-14-year-old-in-the-chest-in-nyc-cops-say/

Summary: A 16-year-old boy stabbed a 14-year-old boy in the chest with an unknown object in Queens on Wednesday afternoon, cops said.

https://nypost.com/2022/10/26/2-robbers-snatch-cell-phone-from-woman-69-in-nyc-train-station-cops/

Summary: Two teenage girls snatched a 69-year-old woman’s cellphone inside a Manhattan subway station this week.

17 y/o shot boy shot by Lincoln HS 09/09

https://nypost.com/2022/09/09/boy-17-hurt-in-shooting-near-nyc-high-school-cops/

The male suspect, who escaped after the shooting, was last seen sporting a gray hoodie, black jeans, and a black backpack, according to the article. He was taken by ambulance to NYU Langone Hospital in Brooklyn, where his status was classified as stable. Unknown at the time of the shooting, the victim had no prior criminal history, according to police sources. Just after 1 p.m., the teen was shot in the stomach at Neptune Avenue and Ocean Parkway in Brighton Beach. Abraham Lincoln High School is a short distance away on Ocean Parkway, close to Shore Parkway.

Mother drowned 3 of her kids in Coney Island 09/16

In one of the most heinous crimes against children in recent memory in the city, the mother of three children who drowned this week in Brooklyn was apprehended on Wednesday and charged with murder in their deaths. The children, Zachary Merdy, 7, Liliana Merdy, 4, and Oliver Bondarev, 3 months old, were found dead on Monday. According to the New York City Police Department, the mother, Erin Merdy, 30, of Brooklyn, was detained days later.

15 y/o boy fatally shot in Brooklyn Park 09/08

After two individuals approached him and engaged in a verbal argument that escalated into physical violence, the 15-year-old boy was shot and died in McLaughlin Park in Downtown Brooklyn on Wednesday afternoon, according to the police. According to eyewitnesses, Unique was seated on a bench with two girls her age when two boys approached the group. A dispute that soon followed allegedly turned physical, according to the police. According to the authorities, one of the boys, who was covered in all-black gear and a black ski mask, pulled a gun and shot Unique once in the abdomen.

Topic of crimes in the New York Times

#1 Owner fears D.A retaliation after attacker gets no bail. A Manhattan bodega where a clerk killed a man in self defense was charged with murder even after surveillance showed the bodega worker acting in self defense after he was attacked. The D.A dropped the charges only after people became angry with his arrest and it was taken to the New York Times.

#2 Parolee nabbed in assault speree

Elkin ortiz, 27 a homeless man terrorized the upper west side in a spree of unprovoked attacks. Police said Ortiz walked up to a 27 year old man and began to hit him several times than took off, about 30 mins later he attacked a 35 year old man and his attacks only continued as he slapped a 26 year old women. Ortiz was arrested and charged with assault.

#3 HomelessMan rapes a women on a train

A homeless man charged with raping a women on a train. Surveillance footage from inside the SEPTA train show the man identify as Ngoy spending 45 minuets trying to touch and grope the women.

#4 Coney Island women who drowned her kids

On Monday the police department received a call just before 2am urging them to check on a mother and her 3 kids, officers found her about 90 minuets later soaking wet without her kids. The three kids was found unconscious and was rushed to Coney Island hospital. The mother was charged in her kids death days later.