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Story By: Noelle Newton
New Program Successful
Watch This Video {NORTH TULSA, Okla.} July 5 - A known North Tulsa gang member and convicted murderer is off the streets tonight and so are other criminals. Police say it's all thanks to the Confidential Reliable Citizens Program where people can phone in anonymous tips to police. It's been in effect for more than a month. When people see a crime in progress, they call 911, give a secret code name and the details, and an officer comes right out. Police say with this program, they've finally broken the silence on the streets. July 4th is a holiday Dayo Adetula will never feel like celebrating. It's when he lost his son Joseph, who was shot nine times just down the street from his house. “I thought it was fireworks.” It's been two years and Dayo still doesn't know who killed his son. “They are out there and I know if they will kill again.” Dayo knows people saw something and he also knows they'll probably never tell. He was once like that too. “It used to be, ‘it's not my problem’.” But he's changed and so have 26 of his neighbors. Major Paul Williams heads up the Confidential Reliable Citizens Program. “They're trusting us to do the right thing. We're trusting them to provide accurate, factual information.” Williams says for the first time the trust is there. So far, those involved in the program have called in eight crimes. “Eight doesn't seem like a lot in the grand scheme of things, but those were eight calls we wouldn't have gotten before because people were simply afraid to call.” Dayo is happy to see this change in his neighborhood. “I would call them heroes.” He hopes more people will do the right thing and fight back against what cost him his son. “I think we need to stop looking the other way. When you see something. Do something about it. Call in.” The police department will train six more people for the program this month. But you can still apply. To do so, call the Citizens Crime Commission at 585-5209. Major Williams hopes to take the program citywide. However, it is still in the start-up phase. He is accepting applications though from people all over the city.
What do you do to keep your children safe?
Do you watch every move they make? Do you know their friends? Do you ensure they have safe places to play, go to school, and hang out?
I did. But my son Joseph Adetula is dead. He was the victim of a drive-by shooting. He was only eighteen years old, and no one knows why he was killed, or who did it. We may never know.
He was one of thousands of American teenagers and children killed every year in acts of violence.
I can't bring my son back. No one can.
But I can make things better for other children in our community, and so can you.
Today, when you look out your window, what do you see? Are your streets clean, well-kept, and filled with happy children playing, riding bikes, and having fun?
Or are they dark and depressing places, with weeds and trash everywhere, suspicious looking teenagers, and not a child in sight?
If you live in the first sort of neighborhood, you should count yourself fortunate. Many children in our city live in the second type of neighborhood. Some don't feel safe when they play outside. Others have family problems: single working parents, alcoholic or drug-addicted parents, or severe poverty.
Regardless of who these children are, they are all our children. It is our responsibility, as the adults of the community, to show them what they can be some day, to give them pride in their community, and to guide them as they become the new adults of all our tomorrows.
How You Can Help
Drive through the poorer neighborhoods of town and look around. Open your eyes. You may see run-down, dangerous playgrounds. You may see parks with not a single patch of green. You might see garbage on the streets, or weeds growing through old broken sidewalks.
What does this do to the children who live in this environment every single day?
Pay attention to the children, too. Are they happy and motivated? Do they do well in school, stay out of trouble, go to college to make better lives for themselves? Or are they dropping out to raise children or get jobs at fast-food restaurants and factories?
We can't fix the adults in our neighborhoods. But we can do things to show the children that we care, we are there for them, and we are willing and able to guide them. We can be role models. And we can all care for our city's children by giving them a better environment in which to thrive.
To do this in our world today, we need money. Money fixes the playgrounds, grows flowers and grass in the parks, picks up the trash and repairs the sidewalks. And money provides the children who would otherwise drop out with the places to go, things to do, and extra help and motivation that will get them to stay in school and make their lives everything we hope for them.
If you can't give today, at least look around and see the need. You can help today by being a good example, and by encouraging the children already in your life. But when you can, give to the Joseph Adetula Foundation. We are a 501(c)(3), 509(a)(1) under the National Heritage Foundation corporation, so your donations are tax-deductible. And even a little bit will help.
