An important community cop walk is coming up Wednesday in Carrollton Ridge. Lest we forget, this is the neighbhorhood where the 5-year-old was shot and critically wounded, and where hundreds came for a walk to join the mayor and just about every other public official (Gene Sweeney Jr. captures the walk, with Mayor Sheila Dixon chatting with community activist Steve Herlth).

That was the easy one.

Now comes the test. Do the people the mayor and the police commissioner and the longtime community president, Connie Fowler, implored to help out actually show up? Or will this be another example of how we react to crime only to forget and move on a few weeks later.

Community activist Steve Herlth put out this e-mail as a challenge:

Carrollton Ridge, Wednesday, Wednesday, August 12 at 6:30 PM.  Meet up will be at the Recreation Parking lot, S. Pulaski and Ashton Streets.

Now, this Carrollton Ride walk will be an interesting walk, for some of us who participated in the Mega walk last month.  We all know how hard the Carrollton Ride Connie Fowler, The Mayor, the City employee's, the various community Walkers, and our fantastic Southwestern and Southern Officers were in participating in that walk to get the community residents out. Now is their chance to come out and join us in making their community safe and clean. 

All who participated in the last walk threw out the challenge to the community residents.  Many of the residents promised to be there on this Wednesday.  This is where I say, "We must have faith in the community" so let us back that faith up with a little pray that they keep their word.