Posts Tagged ‘vandalism’

Attracting Hundreds of Visitors

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Based on the occasional e-mails and the traffic report on norwalkcity.com, the website is attracting fresh visitors on a daily basis. Thus a new blog entry with the City of Norwalk blog.

The Vandalism Report I wrote on April 2009 was viewed numerous times and we can assume that Norwalk residents are concerned for the safety and well being of the neighborhood especially for the homeowners. There is not a single homeowner that would want neighbor vandalism and hate crimes occurring in their neighbor and irresponsible homeowners that neglect maintaining their properties either. This morning, I received an e-mail from a gentleman named Marco that showed deep concern with Norwalk city’s public safety.

Hi there – My name is Marco, I’m a native son of 90650. I moved back to Norwalk after being gone for about 15 years or so, a little over a year ago. Since then I’ve taken up a committed interest in the community (my family is all here) and as such I serve as a Public Safety Commissioner.

I’m well aware of the evolving technology that people are using nowadays. I had a similar thought, that using media such as Twitter, Facebook, etc, was one of the more effective ways to get the message out and reach more people.

For my own part, I created a Facebook group called “Norwalk Rocks!” and I’m using it as my own vehicle for communication. You have the upper hand on me, however :)

Two thumbs up for running this blog. I’d love to maybe chat sometime about issues that you clearly have first-hand experience with. Maybe there is something we can do.

Thanks for your time.
Marco A Guzman

Mr. Guzman took the initiative to look out for the Norwalk residents by serving as the Public Safety Commissioner. Residents like Mr. Guzman are proud homeowners and residents of Norwalk, and take great effort for the betterment of their neighborhood and community. If everyone participates and actually cares to make their neighborhood a safer and peaceful place, progress will be visible everywhere you drive. Unfortunately Norwalk residents are being apathetic about neighborhood vandalism, graffiti problems, noise control issues, and other public safety problems.

If you find relevant news and information regarding the city of Norwalk, please do not hesitate to contact me and factual news and info will be posted on a regular basis to inform the residents of Norwalk. Neighboring cities like Downey and Cerritos are also welcome if the news might have an effect on the Norwalk residents too. Thank you.

Neighbor Vandalism

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

It started years ago during the time when my little brother lived with me in Norwalk. Our neighbor street was peaceful or so I thought. Before my family moved in into Norwalk, we use to live in Los Angeles in a mid-scale neighborhood and everyone respected the neighbor’s property, privacy, noise level, and were very friendly towards one another.

But things were lot different here in Norwalk. I noticed that there were lot of cars parked on the residential streets instead of the usual two to three vehicles per households normally found at other cities. The neighbors especially in my street some had like five to seven vehicles in one household. You read it right, five to seven vehicles. As day goes by, I realized that there were numerous people entering and leaving the house on a daily basis so either they had an enormous household in one house or the rooms were being rented out to renters.

On one evening, there were two vehicles parked in front of my house street curve so my brother parked his vehicle across the street. He told me that two neighbors were out on their front yard drinking beer and chatting together. Then the homeowner where my brother parked his car at said not to park his car there. Brother replied that there was no other available parking space. The following morning, a beer cardboard was placed on the car’s windshield with a big X marked on it. He didn’t visually check his car if there was any intentionally vandalism on his car.

Couple weeks forward, my mother had to park her car to on the same curb, and right when she was leaving the vehicle and heading towards the house, that homeowner came out with a broom and started sweeping next to my mother’s car. Outrageous! That man obviously had bad intentions and not a friendly neighbor. My mother relocated the car elsewhere.

At another time, I parked my car in front of xx house only to find that the homeowner turned on his little sprinkler unit right next to my car. I immediately headed out to my car and the water shooting out of the sprinkler was hitting the rotary of my right rear wheel. What bad intentions and wrongful doing of these Norwalk residents! I reparked my car elsewhere.

I was very frustrated with these two neighbors. April 3, 2009, my car was again parked in front of the xy house as there were no visible parking spaces near my house. I was hesitant at first last night whether I should park there or not and this was a brand new car too. The first time I did when I approached my vehicle was visually inspect the car and I was mad at this point. There was a yellow tac pin pinned down on my front right wheel! Yes it is a small tac pin but how dare he insert that in my vehicle. This is property vandalism! At this point, I am pretty angry and I don’t have any proof of this case or previous cases to file a small court suit against the xx homeowner.