If you're traveling this holiday season, get an automatic timer for your lights, and ask a neighbor to watch your home, shovel snow, and park in the driveway from time to time. If you're staying at home, watch out for criminals who pose as couriers delivering gifts or con artists posing as charity representatives. The MPDC offers these and other last-minute holiday safety tips. In an attempt to better gauge public satisfaction with police services and to measure residents' perceptions of neighborhood problems, the MPDC is conducting a telephone survey of D.C. residents. Macro International, a private, national research firm based in Vermont, will be conducting telephone surveys of residents during the months of December 1999 and January 2000.
All surveys are anonymous and voluntary.
The data generated from this year's survey will be compared to the results of a similar survey conducted in 1998, to determine what progress the MPDC has made in addressing residents' concerns. Drive carefully, look out for one another, and be safe.