Just some of the benefits of an IPNA membership include:
In addition to establishing your basic IPNA membership, you can also choose to make an online contribution to the Inman Park Security Patrol. Our patrol is composed of off-duty APD officers with arrest and citation privileges who help make our neighborhood a safer place to live. However, as of right now, they patrol our streets only about a third of the time. But the more IPSP members we have, the more we can increase the patrol's presence. Currently only about 38% of Inman Park residents support IPSP to pay costs averaging about $11,000 per month. If you live in an apartment or condominium, chances are your management company or homeowners' association makes a contribution already on your behalf. However, as an example, the large complexes in the neighborhood are typically asked to pay only about $20 per unit per year. Our security officers do patrol Inman Park's multi-family dwellings, and we all want to enjoy safer streets, so these are important reasons for apartment and condo dwellers to support IPSP. If you live in a private home, there are also many advantages to joining IPSP. One example is vacation patrol. Recently when a local family was out of town, an IPSP officer on vacation patrol discovered that a dog walker had left a door unlocked, so the officer was able to secure the house and prevent a potentially bad outcome. With more contributions, we can employ additional off-duty APD officers and increase their patrol hours. If we have as our goal to fund the patrol round-the-clock for the entire year, the annual cost would be only about $43 per household. That's less than 40 cents per household per day for full-time security patrol. |