The Crime and Hate stops NOW!
Attention All St. Petersburg Neighborhood Associations
As I am sure you are aware, the drug and violence in Palmetto Park has escalated beyond a tolerable limit. The pleas of the good citizens from this neighborhood have not been heard. This situation has gone on too long. The Crime and Hate stops NOW!
As a member of the Palmetto Park Crime Watch, I am aware that our situation is not much, if at all, different from the situations that you and many other associations have been trying to resolve for years. Therefore, we invite you to step forward and join the proposed United Neighborhood Alliance of St Petersburg as we kick off a new era of crime prevention as one voice.
Tomorrow, Saturday May 26 at 6:00pm, we will be holding our inaugural celebration cookout. Drinks and sandwiches provided. This event will be held at 2715 2nd Ave S, St. Petersburg Fl, 33712, home of Mr. & Mr. Burghardt-Culp, recent victims of criminal violence. Bring your neighborhood banners!!! Also bring a lawn chair to sit and chat.
This event is being held to gather support, members, and to discuss concerns that will be used to formulate the mission and organization of the UNASP. This will be solely a private citizen-based group, open only to current members of a St. Petersburg Neighborhood Association as recognized by CONA and/or FICO.
I am aware that this is a holiday weekend, and that many may already have plans, this situation however is extremely important and the formulation of this group is in the best interest of every neighborhood in this city. The safety of our families has been on the line for too long. Please make every effort to attend the cookout and help to form a single voice dedicated to positive productive change. We are working to make this a highly visible event, it is not our intent to ambush or attack the local government, but it is time that our voice is heard and taken seriously.
Thank you in advance for your participation, and support.
Sincerely
Wade Phillip Burghardt Culp
Please contact our founding members should you have any questions:
Wade 727-215-1090
Cass Rael 727-321-2653
Dan Spice 727-328-2852
2 Comments:
Hey Wade
Count me in. When you can smoke "Crack" in the park, but can't park your car facing the wrong direction I think we have a serious misuse of resources.
dkimmitt@tampabay.rr.com
Deanne
You fascists are off to a good start with UNASP --->
Volunteer Used 'N Word,' Police Say
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By STEPHEN THOMPSON The Tampa Tribune
Published: Jul 18, 2006
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ST. PETERSBURG - The police department has removed a white crime-watch coordinator in a mostly black neighborhood because, officials said, he used the "n word."
It was 9:40 p.m. May 21. Pieces of concrete had been hurled through the windows of the house Matthew Culp, 36, then the Palmetto Park crime watch coordinator, shares with another man, according to a St. Petersburg police report.
Culp grabbed a gun and fired it out the window of a back door to scare the culprits, the report states.
When an officer showed up at his door, the real estate agent said he did not need the help of authorities - that he was going to kill the culprits, using the derogatory name, the report says.
On Monday, Culp denied making the remark. "I most definitely did not say it," Culp said. "My partner and I are gay. We very much look down upon people being bigoted."
Johnny Harris, a crime prevention officer, said he heard the same denials when he told Culp of his removal June 30. "I asked him why an officer would write it in a sworn statement in a report" if it didn't happen, Harris said.
The incident occurred when tensions between new residents such as Culp and longtime drug dealers were reaching a fever pitch in Palmetto Park. Rising property values in the city have brought new denizens to crime-ridden neighborhoods such as this one, and some of the newcomers are trying to turn the areas around, or at least flip the properties for a profit.
Three hours after the concrete-hurling incident, as Culp, his partner and a neighbor were covering the broken windows with plywood, a Molotov cocktail fashioned out of a Corona beer bottle struck the garage at the house but caused only minor damage, a police report says.
On Monday, federal and city authorities announced they had made three arrests in the arson at Culp's home and in one other Molotov cocktail incident in the Palmetto Park neighborhood. One of the three people, Henry Hill, 44, was arrested in June on charges he was operating a drug house in the neighborhood. The other two, Wilbert Conner, 36, and Jerome Flowers, 48, also live in the neighborhood and have criminal records, records show.
Hill and Conner had Flowers "gas" Culp's home because they thought the occupants were interfering with drug trafficking in the neighborhood, according to an affidavit filed by an agent of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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