Post continues to be the LFSNA private security of choice. We encourage homeowners and owners of apartment buildings to consider retaining their services over other patrol services, and remind those who have Post to CALL (626) 446-9874 every time you see suspicious activity in the square. Why? Because we already have many Post customers in the neighborhood, their cars are able to respond to trouble calls within 10 minutes – rain or shine, day or night, faster than other private security cars. It makes sense for those of us interested in patrol services to use a single provider in order to get rapid response.

  LAPD is very responsive, especially now that we have organized “eyes on the street” – including LFSNA Board Members – but Northeast Division is a busy place, especially at night on the weekends. LFSNA Neighborhood Watch calls LAPD when there’s a crime that can lead to an arrest. LAPD has recently made arrests resulting from our calls about suspicious characters with flashlights looking into cars and bins at night. Please lock all car doors anywhere at all times. Leave no valuables in cars. We need additional point people – “block captains” – on our streets east of Catalina and west of Winona. Our watch is mostly coordinated e-mails and phone calls to lists of neighbors, rather than time-consuming meetings! Volunteer! At the board meeting, several neighborhood watch coordinators will be able to collect telephone and e-mail information.

Signs inform new residents and visitors that LFSNA looks after our neighborhood. We would like to work together as residents within LFSNA to bulk order and install signs at the “gateways” to the square and at key intersections, so that visitors and residents alike know that we are paying attention to activity in our neighborhood. There are smaller Neighborhood Watch interblock signs available, too. LFSNA is using membership fees to install them. They cost from $50 to $75 dollars (plus brackets). We do the paperwork and put them where it is legal to do so. We think it is important to have these signs posted where you know they’ll deter criminal activity. Let us know where to look!

Cameras and calls to other city agencies help keep us safe. It is not legal to park for more than 72 hours. Call 1-800-Abandon with a description and plate number of any questionable vehicle. It is not legal to sleep in cars, trucks, or RVs – even during the day! It is not legal to remove trash from bins, and littering carries a $150.00 fine. Report tagging immediately – pictures help! – and the city will clean it up, free. By being neighborly neighbors, we make it easier for LAPD to do its job.  

For more information and neighborly tips go to www.losfelizsqare.org.
  Los Feliz Square - the neighborly neighborhood association.