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By Karen Ivy

Paul Liu of the SaferRock ridge board brief] outlined the history of the group and their current status, running Premiere Protective Services (PPS) private patrol cars in an area which generally conforms to Oakland police beat 12Y (Rockridge below ...

Paul Liu, who started the first campaign in Lower Rockridge, was quoted in November’s Rockridge News as saying he’d “...do what I can in terms of data.” The article also quoted VMA General Manager Elizabeth Caprini: “I don’t keep track of (crime) s...

Paul Liu and Other Patrol Organizers Respond

responses coordinated by Paul Liu The opinion piece above contains a number of mischaracterizations: Degree of Participation The original crowdfunding campaign was launched with the support of many neighbors. We held a neighborhood block meeting following the daytime armed...

By Paul Liu

by Paul Liu, Safer Rockridge | elieve it or not, lower Rockridge has been patrolled by private security professionals for more than five years.

By Paul Liu

by Paul Liu, Rockridge Patrols 4 ese Rockridge is excited to announce that we have a new patrol provider, Intervention Group, Inc. (IGI), a locally- owned and operated business serving many other Oakland neighborhoods as well as numerous high-end clie...

By Paul Liu

by Paul Liu and Gordon “Jake” Jacobs D* you know that lower Rockridge is patrolled by private security professionals in marked vehicles eight hours a day, six days a week, and that upper Rockridge has patrols too? In September 2013, robbers mass-mugge...

By Paul Liu

ROCKRIDGE BRANCH LIBRARY 5366 College Avenue at Manila | 597-5017 by Paul Liu, a patrol organizer We have now had patrols in Lower Rockridge for over a year, since November 2013. We take this opportunity for a year-end overview, including a recap of the service and recent changes, and a review of how well the patrol...

By Paul Liu

by Paul Liu, Ph.D. The use of private security patrols is increasing where traditional law enforcement is insufficient to ensure public safety. On September 23, 2013, with the support of the neighbors on my block and the adjoining block, I launched a ...

By Judith Doner Berne

...y patrols recently proposed for large areas of Rockridge fervently hope that it will help stem the muggings, robberies, burglaries and car thefts that have hit the area over the last year. But no matter what, many feel we owe our thanks to Paul Liu, Steve Kirsh and David Groves, and those who have worked with them, for providing us with a plan of action and listening to our concerns along the way. It was Liu, a straight-talking economist at Google, who started the ball rolling. “He’s...

By Josh Aycock

by economist and Safer Rockridge founder Paul Liu found that the patrols decreased robberies and bur- glaries by 30 percent. Our current drivers are Charlie, Eric, and Santana. We plan to hold periodic informal outdoor gatherings to “meet the drivers” and connect with other safety-minded ...

By Josh Aycock

A statistical analysis conducted by economist and Safer Rockridge founder Paul Liu found that the patrols decreased robberies and bur- glaries by as much as 30 percent. Since 2018, Safer Rockridge has partnered with Intervention Group, Inc. (IGI), a local, African Ameri- can-owned business serving many neighborhoods in O...

...idge, Safer Rock­ ridge expanded to provide vacation watch services, a security alarm response service, a security escort service (see sidebar, page 9) and company to promote public safety, is in new hands. The private patrol, initiated by Paul Liu in November 2013 to monitor the streets of Rockridge when crime in Oakland was rampant, has a new board made up of three relative newcomers to Rockridge. “I think they’re doing a major service as roving neighborhood eyes, Eyes on Rockridge...

By Judith Doner Berne

from Community Resource Officer Anthony Hutzol at a “Coffee With a Cop” session outside Philz Coffee. Feeling exposed and unprotected, residents Paul Liu, Steve Kirsh and David Groves organized Safer Rockridge, a non- profit, to pay for our current private patrol. I gratefully pay my fair share and depend on them to check out my house when I go out of town. at Hudson Bay coffee shop. “He wa...

...jority of car thefts in our neighborhood occur in the middle of the night. Twenty-four hour random patrols are necessary. — Sally Williams ■ ■Get together periodically to get to know each other – a few times a year is Patrol Fund Organizer Paul Liu Responds: may be used when a new tenant comes in, defeats the purpose of having use permits at all. The idea of a use permit is that a use might be acceptable, if appropriate conditions were attached to the use. Allowing a generic restaura...