Billdt Urges Landlords to Join Anti-Crime Plan (SB SUN 06142006) Police Chief Talks at monthly owners session...

Chief Billdt is correct with what I have read in these reports. The reason for this problem is that the only place that the so called Problem People can afford to live is in the apartments that Chief Billdt is talking about. See they might be the ones that are the problem going into Jail, or Prison even. But their Families can only afford what they can afford and that is the apartments that they are living in. So where are the People that have been arrested or have been the problems in the past and have been arrested and they have now served their time in Jail! Now it is time for them to go home back to their families. They served their time. We cannot judge them now in our perfect world that we have created. But their families have been stricken to have to suffer and live in the apartments that you have built for them. In other words they are nothing special and they are not moving with their families because it is to expensive any where else. When their family member that was causing the problems before is released from Jail or prison they are going back to their families. Back to the Apartments that you, Chief Billdt have so properly built for them to live in. You cannot blame these tenants for the situation that you have kept them in. Fix up your apartments and price them higher then what they can afford, then they will not be there to begin with. I know that the apartment is in a bad area, but you knew that when you purchased the property!!

BSRancher!!

PS: The problem is not as much with the tenant as it is with the Management!! This has been proven with other apartments in the City of Rialto!!..bsr

Billdt urges landlords to join anti-crime plan Police chief talks at monthly owners session Megan Blaney, Staff Writer

What do you think? Join the blog here. SAN BERNARDINO Landlords need to be "active and engaged" participants in the anti-crime plan Operation Phoenix, Police Chief Michael Billdt said Tuesday. "All of us are stakeholders in the safety and welfare of our city," Billdt said. He spoke to about 15 landlords and managers at the monthly meeting of the Apartment Association at the San Bernardino Police Department's Central Station. Less than 5 percent of the apartment owners in the city were represented at Tuesday's meeting. That showed a detached attitude that contributes to the blight at some complexes, Billdt said. "They need to respond. They need to engage. If we need to get a bigger room, we will," he said. Billdt said the three tenets of Operation Phoenix suppression, intervention and prevention are integral to the city's safety. "Prevention is what you're doing today," he told the group. "I thank you for your involvement." But some landlords questioned how they can control crime at their complexes when their tenants are not the ones posing problems. Kathy Brophy, representing Edward J. Harding Enterprises LLC, regularly attends the association meetings, and said most of the problems derive from people who visit their properties from other complexes. Kathy Miral, manager of Mountain View Manor, which is better known as "The Yellows," said the complex is the site of frequent drive-by shootings. "We don't have problem tenants. Our problems come from the street," she said. "I sleep on the floor." Part of the problem at Mountain View Manor, she said, is its long-standing reputation as a hotbed of drug activity. "People get out of jail and they head right here," Miral said. Still, the city and police need the landlords' participation, city officials emphasized. Gary Underwood, chief of police at the San Bernardino City Unified School District, urged managers and landlords to call his department's hotline about problems involving children at school or on their way to or from school. He distributed copies of the current school schedule showing when students are on and off track so apartment representatives would know if a child causing trouble is truant. "We are specialized law enforcement," Underwood said. "We are available to you."