Alert - Alert - Please take notice

Our neighbors, the 2640 Cooperative reported the following incident to us yesterday.

"Hi all,
Last night (Friday, September 22, 2013) some of the people organizing and attending an event at 2640 encountered a group attempting to rob people in the area of the builsing (2540 St. Paul Street).  I was inside closing down and didn't know about it until one of the organizaers, Ken, called me today (Saturday).  He said it was a group of 8, and described them as teens wearing ski masks and carrying metal poles.  He said that they chased a man through the neighborhood and, later, a person with a bike.  Ken said that at one point he went over to the group to overhear what they were saying.  He said that they were sending "souts" out to look for people traveling alone, who would then report back to the group, and the group would go try to rob the person.  Ken also called the police at some point and asked them to send a patrol over to discourage them, and he said after that a car came and was driving around the area.  Apparently this was going on around the time of the end of the event, 10 pm.

Please take care and give folks you know in the CV area a heads up.
Thanks,
Tiffany"

On another note, we have been noticing this week that we had two police cars sitting at the intersection of the unit block of east 26th Street and Lovegrove with their lights flashing for about an hour each night around 5 pm.  Apparently it would appear that there has been similar crimes taking place which would warrant the police to be summoned and this brings to mind an issue of the Off-duty Police service that is supposed to be in place during the weekend.  Our neighbors are getting greatly concerned about the fact that there appears to be yet another crime wave going on and the neighborhood is not being advised at all of these activities so that they can better protect themselves.   A bank robbery attempt took place at the M&T Bank yesterday at 10:30 am.  At one time the neighborhood which experienced a crime issue would receive some sort of notification by written notices so that all could be advised.  This notification went out to those who don't have computers and are not on facebook, twitter or anyother electronic medium.