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The BGC plays an active role in monitoring and assisting the efforts of law enforcement agencies and the courts in keeping criminal and other antisocial behaviors from gaining the upper hand in our neighborhoods. The BGC’s Public Safety Task Force meets monthly with police officials, building inspectors, and other authorities to examine crime trends, pinpoint the most troublesome sectors, and commit the resources necessary to reduce reported incidents by 5% yearly. City Councilman Rev. Ricky Burgess calls the task force "the best ... in the city that's community-based." Residents and business owners are invited to attend the first 15 minutes of each meeting to raise specific concerns, or present concrete information about criminal activity to the Task Force. Meetings are at the Bloomfield-Garfield Community Activity Center, 113 North Pacific Avenue, in Garfield, and begin at 4 p.m. For more information, contact Aggie Brose, chair of the Task Force, at 412-441-6950 x 15. In addition, the BGC keeps a watchful eye on potential nuisance bars and helps to organize efforts to address problem or illegal businesses. In 2008, we purchased a nuisance bar that the owner put up for sale, and, with the Penn Avenue Arts Initiative, are recruiting a new owner for the property. The BGC also works to keep our streets and neighborhoods clean of debris and overgrown vegetation, by sponsoring regular volunteer clean-up days. "A clean neighborhood is a safe neighborhood," says Aggie Brose, deputy director of the BGC. In our most recent clean-up, on October 17, 2009, 50 volunteers took on streets from Mathilda to Negley, collecting and removing more than 60 bags of litter.
City of Pittsburgh's Operation Weed and Seed City of Pittsburgh Bureau of Police U.S. Department of Justice Weed and Seed Office
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