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fter cars and trucks cutting through Coral Ridge Country Club Estates, the
second most prevalent concern we hear around the community has to do with
A crime. Not violent crime, as that is rare, but robberies, burglaries and thefts.
Though crime has been trending downward, according to statistics published by
City of Fort Lauderdale Police Department (https://www.flpd.org/community/crime-
statistics), residents still regularly experience incidents in the categories listed above.
The following chart provides a summary of crimes in our neighborhood for the
14-year period from 2006 to 2019.
Source: Fort Lauderdale Police Department.
This next chart shows a year to date comparison for the past ten years, from 2011
to this year, 2020, for the months of January to October.
Tim Hernandez
Vice President
Board of Directors
These tables show crimes have dropped significantly, but we are still experiencing
Bruce Quailey slightly over 1.5 robberies, burglaries and thefts per week.
bquailey@flbondmtg.com
Like most neighborhoods in the City, CRCCE is an open neighborhood with many
Vicki Lynch ways in and out. Several neighborhoods in Fort Lauderdale, including Rio Vista,
vicki.lynch@aol.com
Sunrise Intracoastal and Harbor Beach have entered into arrangements with the City
Judy High which provide for off-duty police officers to patrol their neighborhoods in squad
judyahigh@gmail.com
police vehicles to augment the normal patrols conducted by on duty officers. These
Brian O'Connell communities have similar demographics as Coral Ridge Country Club Estates and
boconn4404@aol.com have voluntary associations with no mandatory assessments. In communications with
Bill Concannon of Sunrise Intracoastal and Mark Snead of Rio Vista, I learned the
Jason Ulbrich
jbonz25@icloud.com following:
Jeff Stich - Sunrise Intracoastal has 200 homes and budgets about $80,000 per year for off
jjs1717@aol.com duty police patrols in their neighborhood. The annual HOA dues are $700 per year,
about $400 of which goes toward the patrols; the rest goes for other expenses and
Tim Hernandez
Thernandez@ activities. They get about 40 hours per week of police patrols, an average of about
newurbancommunities.com 6 hours per day. Some days they get more coverage and some days they have no
coverage. According to Mr. Concannon, they get nearly 100% participation from
Leslie Donofrio
donofrio@hotmail.com their homeowners in the program.
- Rio Vista has 1000 homes and budgets about $180,000 per year for off-duty
police patrols in their neighborhood. They charge about $365 of their $400 per
household annual dues payment for the patrols. They have about 400 of the 1000
households participate. Their larger budget gets them about 70 hours per week of
Homeowners Association patrols, or about 10 hours per day, but Rio Vista is, of course, a much larger
neighborhood than Sunrise Intracoastal.
Rio Vista is probably the better comparison, given the diversity of housing stock,
multiple entries into the neighborhood, adjacent commercial uses and size.
According to US Census data, Coral Ridge Country Club Estates has about 1270
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