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| PA STATE POLICE AUTHORIZED CRIME EYE & McGRUFF CRIME WATCH SIGN |
JULY 12, 2011. ON THIS DATE, ON JULY 12, 1995, PA STATE TROOPER PAT MOE, WORKING IN FULL CONSORT WITH THEN COPLAY POLICE CHIEF DONALD B. HILL, FRANK & ANN DICKMAN AND THEN COPLAY MAYOR, JOSEPHINE SHEMANSKI, PRESENTED A PROGRAM IN COPLAY COUNCIL CHAMBERS TO A FULL HOUSE OF INTERESTED RESIDENTS AND FORMED COPLAY CRIME WATCH. TROOPER MOE STATED THAT COPLAY CRIME WATCH WOULD OPERATE AS A SELF GOVERNING ENTITY AND WORK AS THE EXTENDED EYES AND EARS OF THE COPLAY POLICE DEPARTMENT. THE DICKMANS WERE NAMED CO-COORDINATORS AND WITH AN AVERAGE ATTENDANCE OF 25 MEMBERS AT A MEETING, MOVED THE PROGRAM FORWARD IN A TRULY DEMOCRATIC FASHION. IN OCTOBER OF 1995, NOTICE WAS RECEIVED THAT COPLAY CRIME WATCH HAD BECOME PA STATE CERTIFIED AND IN 1996 RECEIVED CERTIFICATES OF ACHIEVEMENT FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA COMMISSION ON CRIME AND DELINQUENCY IN RECOGNITION OF CITIZEN VOLUNTEER SERVICES PROVIDED IN SUPPORT OF COMMUNITY CRIME PREVENTION. THE PA STATE AUTHORIZED SIGNS, (DEPICTED ABOVE) THREE OF WHICH WERE PROVIDED THROUGH THE PA STATE POLICE AND SIX MORE THAT WERE PURCHASED THROUGH THE COPLAY POLICE DEPARTMENT (COPLAY DEPARTMENT REIMBURSED BY CCW) UPON THE SUGGESTION OF A MEMBER, AND PLACED THROUGHOUT THE BOROUGH WITH HARDWARE DONATED BY THE COUNCIL AT THAT TIME. THE SIGNS ARE NO LONGER VISIBLE IN THE COMMUNITY, AS A WHOLE, DUE TO THE EFFORTS OF B. LEINER, Jr., WHO CLAIMED THAT HE HAD "DISSOLVED COPLAY CRIME WATCH LIKE DROPPING ALKA SELTZER TABLETS IN WATER", WHEN HE AND A SPLINTER GROUP FORMED A DIFFERENT ORGANIZATION ON JANUARY 14, 2004. FALSE ASSUMPTION BY B. LEINER, Jr. COPLAY CRIME WATCH CONTINUED TO FUNCTION AND PUBLISHES A PERIODIC NEWSLETTER FOR CCW MEMBERS. STANLEY REINHARD, Jr.
CAME ON BOARD AS CO-COORDINATOR WITH FRANK DICKMAN AND ANN DICKMAN BECAME THE SECRETARY/TREASURER. COPLAY CRIME WATCH SIGNS ARE STILL VISIBLE ONLY AT SEVERAL HOMES IN COPLAY, INCLUDING CCW'S BIRTHPLACE. AS FOR THE ORIGINAL COPLAY CRIME WATCH SIGNS (DEPICTED BELOW) LEINER, Jr. CLAIMED OWNERSHIP THRU A TRUMPED UP COUNCIL DECISION. ALL OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS BELONGED TO HIS GROUP IN DECEMBER, 2007, WHEN THAT COUNCIL VOTED TO GIVE HIM THE SIGNS WHICH WERE BEING HELD BY POLICE CHIEF GENOVESE. WE HAVE ON FILE, A LETTER OVER THE SIGNATURE OF LEINER, Jr., STATING THAT HE RECEIVED THE SIGNS FROM THE POLICE CHIEF. A STRANGE THING HAPPENED IN 2010. WE RECEIVED (COPLAY CRIME WATCH) A PHONE CALL TELLING US THAT 3 OF THE ORIGINAL SIGNS HAD BEEN RECOVERED FROM AN ABANDONED CEMENT QUARRY NEAR COPLAY. HOW DID THEY GET THERE? THERE IS ONLY ONE PERSON THAT CAN ANSWER THAT FOR YOU. THE INDIVIDUAL THAT PUT THEM THERE, OR YOU CAN DRAW YOUR OWN CONCLUSION. COPLAY CRIME WATCH LIVES ON AND WILL CONTINUE TO SERVE OUR COMMUNITY IN A PASSIVE, NON HEADLINE GRABBING FASHION.
GOD BLESS,
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| THREE OF THE ORIGINAL COPLAY CRIME WATCH SIGNS THAT WERE RECOVERED FROM AN ABANDONED CEMENT QUARRY NEAR COPLAY |
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| COPY OF LETTER RECEIVED FROM BILL LEINER, Jr. STATING HE RECEIVED COPLAY CRIME WATCH SIGNS FROM THE POLICE CHIEF. AFTER READING THE ABOVE LETTER AGAIN, I WONDER IF B. LEINER, Jr. IS INSINUATING THAT NOW RETIRED PA STATE TROOPER PAT MOE IS A LIAR. B.LEINER, Jr. WAS NOT AT THE MEETING ON JULY 12, 1995, BUT THOSE OF US WHO WERE DISTINCTLY RECALL TROOPER MOE GIVING A TERRIFIC PRESENTATION AND INITIATING A NEW PROGRAM IN THE BOROUGH OF COPLAY. IT IS DOCUMENTED. |
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