Friends of Heidi Harrison Chain
Office:
118-20 Queens Boulevard
Forest Hills, NY 11375
Mailing address:
72-11 Austin Street
Box 420
Forest Hills, NY 11375
heidi@heidichain.com
Issues
Public safety
Work with the NYPD to keep our community safe and reduce crime
- Heidi Chain will work to address the noise complaints in our community. People are being adversely affected in their homes and Heidi Chain will help restore their quality of life.
- Heidi Chain will work with the NYPD and the Department of Transportation to address the traffic issues in our community.
- Heidi Chain will work with the NYPD to resolve the constant problem of blocked driveways.
Heidi Chain has a 13 year record of working with and strongly supporting the NYPD and their needs to fight crime and terrorism. Heidi has been honored by the NYPD many times – most recently as 2008 woman of the year. In the city council, Heidi will continue to work with the police. Heidi will fight for money to hire police officers. She will continue to inform our community on important security, safety and emergency preparedness issues.
- Our safety and security must be protected.
- We must budget the funds to hire more cops and maintain required personnel levels.
- We must budget money to the DAs so that they can continue to prosecute all the crimes.
- We should insure that we have school crossing guards by every school.
- We should encourage police/community programs – the better the relationship, the better the communications, and the better the police services in our community.
- We must address the specific traffic issues of our community:
- Increase and enhance signage
- Increase the number of traffic lights and position them where they will most effective. We should have timed crossing areas – this will educate the drivers and the pedestrians – (this can be modeled on the programs in Washington, D.C.)
- Use traffic agents to help cross people on Queens Boulevard. Heidi started the auxiliary police officer program to have volunteers help cross Queens Boulevard. This program should be expanded to include traffic agents.
- As Chief of the Forest Hills Rego Park community emergency response team (CERT), Heidi knows that the CERT is a critical component of our safety and emergency preparedness program. People who volunteer to be trained and become members of the CERT team must have legal protection under the law. Heidi will support legislation to make it clear that members of the CERT will not be personally liable if someone gets hurt while they are performing their authorized duties for the CERT under the authority of the office of emergency management. This legislation can be modeled on the “good Samaritan laws”.
- Heidi has a record of support for cameras in our local subway stations. Heidi will continue to fight for this protection. This is even more important as the MTA is cutting services, including staff in our subways. See "When the Crime Fighter Is a Hidden Camera", New York Times, November 6, 2005.
- We also need a visible police presence in the subways
Article from the New York Times covering Heidi's efforts to get cameras in the subways
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