Yet another really great month with only 27 total incidents.  This was mostly due to almost a complete absence of the minor incidents such as prank phone calls and graffiti. The numbers on car break-ins and home break-ins were about normal. Unfortunately the robbery string has continued. Please see the Continue reading “July 2012 Crime Report”

Overall crime numbers were fairly normal this month. There was a small uptick in car break-ins, but nothing trend worthy. These were mostly spread out across the neighborhood in time and place. There were only 2 home break-ins this month, which is way below normal. Continue reading “June 2012 Crime Report”

Looking at the numbers below, we had a fairly good month statistically. We were well below average on most of the catagories that I track. But behind the numbers we had a couple pretty serious incidents, read on for more. The good news is that we only had 2 burglaries (home break-ins) this month throughout the entire neighborhood. This has been a focus of ours for a while and I hope to see this stay low. The bad news is that one of these burglaries occurred while the residents were at home but Continue reading “May 2012 Crime Report”

Despite the awful news about the robbery on LaVista, April was a fairly routine month for us crime wise for the most part. There were only 5 home break-ins throughout the area. We a couple of car break-ins that were two-fers. Two different cars were broken into near each other on the same night. These pairs occurred just 4 days apart, so possibly the same bad guy. Again this month, in several of these car break-ins, the doors had been left unlocked Continue reading “April 2012 Crime Report”

Our unusual absence of crime last month was short lived. Our numbers for March were mostly back to normal with a little St. Pat’s bump. Car break-ins were up this month, mostly in the area north of McCommas and south of Belmont. These seemd to cluster around the Turtle Dove apartments and the area behind the Billiard Bar. We did have several very serious incidents this month which I detail below.   Continue reading “March 2012 Crime Report”