This is a nightly reminder for residents to:
- Remove valuables from cars & make sure doors are locked
- Close & secure garage doors
- Lock all exterior doors
- Turn on exterior lights and activate any alarms or security systems.
The Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) encourages you to embrace the 9PM Routine!
This is a nightly reminder for residents to:
Know Your Risks. Make Your Plan. Improve Your Outcome.
Per Colorado Springs City Code - Whenever any person is operating a bicycle, skateboard, roller skates, or similar device upon a sidewalk, the person shall yield the right of way to any pedestrian and shall give audible signal before overtaking and passing the pedestrian.
Article 19 Operation of Bicycles http://sterlingcodifiers.com/codebook/index.php?book_id=855&chapter_id=62859 It's important to adopt safe cycling practices. A series of videos produced by The League of American Bicyclists will help you develop your knowledge of bicycling safety. For more tips and techniques to improve your ride, watch all of the Smart Cycling Videos (link is external) available on The League's website. Rules of the Road
As the weather turns warmer and it stays light longer, the incidence of neighborhood harassment and vandalism tends to rise (ring and run, egging homes, toilet papering trees, stealing yard ornaments, racing cars and motorcycles, dumping trash, graffiti, etc.). Parents and guardians, please be sure to remind children that it is not OK to prank or harass others, and that what they think is fun may be viewed as a crime, an attack on an individual, or even an attempted home invasion.
In Colorado Springs, it is unlawful for persons under the age of eighteen (18) years to loiter or to aimlessly drive or ride about, on or about any street, road, sidewalk, park, playground, yard, or building, whether public or private, without the consent or permission of the owner or occupant thereof, between Midnight on Friday and Saturday nights (10pm Sunday night through Thursday night) and 6:00am the next morning. It is unlawful for the parent, guardian, or other adult person having the care and custody of a juvenile under the age of eighteen (18) years to knowingly permit or allow the juvenile to loiter or to aimlessly drive or ride about at the places and within the time prohibited Read the Loitering Ordinance / Curfew rules for Colorado Springs at codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/coloradospringsco/latest/coloradosprings_co/0-0-0-16212 Learn more about neighborhood safety at the National Crime Prevention Council's website http://www.ncpc.org/topics/home-and-neighborhood-safety Each year, Americans trust the U.S. Postal Service® with billions of letters and packages, and the vast majority of those arrive safely at their intended destinations. But there are always thieves who will target the mail. Postal Inspectors investigate these crimes and arrest thousands of mail and package thieves each year. Still, there are extra steps you can take to ensure your mail arrives safely at its destination.
PROTECT YOURSELF Follow and share these tips to help protect yourself and others against mail and package theft.
Report mailbox vandalism at https://ehome.uspis.gov/mailtheft/vandalize.aspx |
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