Watch Your Back (Because Security Won't)!

Last month, one of our front desk workers was attacked by a tenant with a knife in the lobby. An eyewitness said that the tenant ran up behind the worker as she approached the lobby restroom, grabbed her by the hair, threatened to kill her, and managed to cut her on the face before being removed. The disturbed tenant claimed that the worker had been flirting with her man; the irony is that this took place a week or two before the worker's wedding date. After the attack, the tenant was taken away in an ambulance, presumably to a local psychiatric ward.

Well, the tenant was spotted in the building again this week. She's back, and we have no idea what frame of mind she's in now.

This attack just goes to show that nobody's really safe in the building, in spite of all the cameras - some of which have been installed this year. CAMERAS DON'T PREVENT ASSAULTS or other crimes. They only provide a record of something that's already happened - after the fact. It's a case of closing the barn door after the horse has run away. We have an alleged security director who is invisible most of the time, and nobody on staff who is licensed to actually provide security. When there are problems, we're all told to call 911, and the local police precinct seems amused by calls from Kenmore Hall.

My question is this: why are dangerous people allowed to return to this building after they've attacked people? Anywhere else, something like this could be legitimate grounds for an eviction proceeding. Management seems to cultivate more and more people like this. It's perverse, because they don't hold themselves accountable to anyone who gets attacked and they do nothing to prevent the attacks in the first place.

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