Lower Greenville Neighborhood Association

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”

Last year, February was a good month for us, it was the lowest number of crime incidents in years with 35 incidents. This year, February was even better to us, with only 20 incidents. (See below) That’s with no ice storms and an extra day thrown in for leap year. That’s a record shattering great month for our residents, with only 7 total incidents across our 2500+ households. In fact it took me a little longer to get this report out this month, because I was certain there was a mistake in the data. But after triple checking everything, we were right on. According to Officer Keith, this was unique to our LGNA neighborhood. He tells me the number of crime incidents were actually slightly up in adjacent neighborhoods. Next month is yet to be seen, but let’s keep looking out for each other and keep this trend going!  Continue reading “February 2012 Crime Reports”