Church helps launch crime fighting
ANNAPOLIS – Eastport, once perceived as a quaint, safe waterfront neighborhood community has become a place of fear as muggings, home break-ins in broad daylight, drug busts, vandalism and a record eight homicides in Annapolis last year blemished the image, said the Rev. MaAn Barcelo.
Gov. Martin O'Malley held a press conference Feb. 21 about these changes in the community at Eastport UMC, two blocks from two public housing complexes that have been a source of much of the crime. He unveiled an initiative, Capitol City Safe Streets, a cooperative federal and state funded effort to counteract crime in the state's capitol.
Barcelo opened the meeting with prayer.
"Public safety is the most important thing our government does," the governor said. "There was a time when we would heap all of this on local government. No more. It's not their problem; it's our problem."
Gov. Martin O'Malley held a press conference Feb. 21 about these changes in the community at Eastport UMC, two blocks from two public housing complexes that have been a source of much of the crime. He unveiled an initiative, Capitol City Safe Streets, a cooperative federal and state funded effort to counteract crime in the state's capitol.
Barcelo opened the meeting with prayer.
"Public safety is the most important thing our government does," the governor said. "There was a time when we would heap all of this on local government. No more. It's not their problem; it's our problem."
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