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Robbery on P Street, burglaries on Oakwood, 30th
12/27/2011 6:08 PM by John M
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT (DOMESTIC)
12/23/11
9:20 p.m.
2112 Accommodation St.
A male reported he was stabbed by a known male with a knife.ROBBERY
12/25/11
7:00 a.m.
1500 block of Admiral Gravely Boulevard
A male reported he was robbed by an unknown male with a gun.BURGLARY
12/22/11 – 12/23/11
9:00 p.m. – 6:30 a.m.
1115 N. 30th St.
An unknown person(s) broke in and stole a television.BURGLARY
12/24/11
1:30 p.m.
1307 Oakwood Ave.
An unknown person(s) broke in and stole items.AGGRAVATED ASSAULT (DOMESTIC)
12/23/11
9:20 p.m.
2112 Accommodation St.
A male reported he was stabbed by a known male with a knife.ROBBERY
12/23/11
12:30 a.m.
2000 block of P Street
A female reported she was robbed by an unknown male and an unknown female.
TAGGED: crime
John Murden, why can’t I see all the comments anymore? I see that this story has 1 comment, but I can’t see it. Should I change the way I view this or something? I’ve noticed on a couple of other threads that I can see someone has commented when I look at the ‘recent comments’ but when I click on them, not all the comments are visible to me. Thanks for any advice.
Any reports of a guy with a gun on P St near 31st tonight? I got a call from a friend who saw someone show a gun. She called the cops, maybe these are connected?
As part of the recent switch in the way that the comments are handled, the comments now also pick up when someone retweets the post on twitter. Think of this as someone sharing or liking the post on Facebook. As a lot of the activity around a blog post happens off the blog now, on Facebook or Twitter, we needed a new way to pull the conversation together.
These actions show in the comment count. The 1st “comment” on this post was actually a retweet by @rosewood_ave. This is shown at the top of the comments by the 2 turning arrows and @rosewood_ave’s icon.
The image below shows the 2 comments and the retweet. For another example, here is a post on Fan of the Fan with no traditional comments but 3 retweets (as of right now).
John, any way you can set it so only actual comments show in the recent comments section? I use that as a way to track where there are new comments worth reading and am always disappointed to find that it’s just a retweet or like since that’s not worth reading. I agree it’s nice to see that stuff but unless they add to the discussion, probably not worth bumping down other comments for.
Good catch, I’ll look into it.
John and Alex both, thanks for the explanation. I agree with Alex, it’s nice to see the retweets and/or likes, but I would rather just see the actual comments.
Shot fired followed by blood curdling scream from a woman on the 900 block of 27th St last night around 8 PM.
Bret #7, you’ve made you point on the other thread and I’m not going to argue with you about the relative safety or lack thereof in Church Hill. However, I assume you DID call the cops the minute you heard the shot and scream? And tell them the direction from which you heard it?
friend of mine had a gun pulled on him outside blue wheeler last night (32nd & Marshall)
guy tried to get in the back seat of his car but the door was locked and he sped off.
it was reported to the police.
crd – I always call the police. They came by about 5 minutes later, but as usual no one was around.
I don’t think it’s fair to give Bret such a hard time. I am a new parent, and this recent rash of crimes has me trolling through Craigslist for a new place to live as well. It also doesn’t help that I have had to leave the park we enjoy with our son (the tot lot at Chimborazo Playground) TWICE in the past week and a half – once bc a teenage couple was flat out and full on having sex on a picnic table and another time bc the alley next to the park overrun with trucks and cars was full of drunk obnoxious young men and their unleashed dogs. Is that fair? Is it fair that the woman actually using the park for the reasons intended had to be the one to leave? No, but no one cares anymore. This place is overrun with assholes of all kinds, shapes, and colors. I mean, you get to a point where you are just sick and tired of defending your neighborhood and decide like those who have gone before you to simply leave. It isn’t getting better fast enough. The schools are absolutely awful. I have a one year old; 12 years is going to fly by and I can guarantee you that MLK middle school is only going to be worse by then (if that is actually possible). It’s sad, but true. It just isn’t worth it to stay.
Seriously about the gun at the Blue Wheeler? What time did this happen?
I heard the shot last night on 25th, but no scream. My two kids asked what it was. I lied and said a car back firing.
It does feel like it is getting a little out of control. I’ve actually been trolling the realty sites myself lately. I’m sure New Years is going to be out of control this year…
Bret #10 – glad you called the police, and again I think your mind is set so I won’t argue with your choice to move away.
Jaime #11 – there was a teenage couple having sex in broad daylight in the park? If so, why didn’t you make a noise and tell them you didn’t appreciate it? I say that because I wouldn’t think you would have a one year old out after dark. There IS bright light there at night, though – I’ve watched the petanque players from a neighbor’s porch, and trust me, the light in their area was seriously bright. Also, same with the drunken young men – you could have said something to them, although I’d be sympathetic if you felt threatened by them a bit, in which case if I were you esp. with unleashed dogs, I’d have walked away and called the cops on a cell phone. Again, with a one year old, I assume both issues happened during daylight hours.
As to the schools up here – I have several friends whose kids have grown up here and done fine attending nothing but public schools in Richmond, all graduated from decent colleges after that (hmm, in one case, William and Mary on early admission is probably more than just a decent college!)
In case you don’t know it, I would advise you that the moderator of this blog, John Murden, teaches at MLK, so I feel sort of like you are disrespecting him when you speak ill of MLK. But if that’s your biggest problem, there ARE other middle schools in town, too, some of my friends kids went to other middle schools and finished up at either Community or Open high. However, you may also be using a few recent incidents as a reason to move, and more power to you if that’s the case. I’m not giving Bret a hard time because I think he’s got his mind made up and a pretty serious chip on his shoulder about Church Hill, so he’s going to move no matter what anyone says. Might be the same with you, in which case I wish you luck with other neighborhoods.
It was in broad daylight, and I was the only person in the park with my son both times. It’s pretty shocking to see 2 large teenagers having sex with their pants around their hips on a table in broad daylight. I kind of figured they would just stop it and go away considering I was pushing my son in the bucket swings, but until another family came to play, all they did was look at me every now and again while they continued. Honestly, I was pretty shocked and I have seen a lot in my life.
As to MLK, my neighbor was also a teacher there before she moved to Spain and she certainly didn’t recommend we stick around for the schooling here in the Hill. I am certainly not trying to disparage anyone and their jobs, but I am also not going to pretend that the school choices here don’t matter.
It doesn’t end there. There have been a few break ins around my area lately, and there are problems in the park across the street from time to time. Our street has had a number of hit and run accidents late on the weekends and notes aren’t left, nor is anything done to make the street safer. 3 years ago my fiancee was attacked on our front porch and his phone was stolen from him as he tried to get into the house; just 3 weeks ago all 3 of us were walking into The Market and a woman followed us around the store screaming at us bc we had “the nerve” to use the pedestrian walk to get inside and she actually had to ::gasp:: stop driving to let us walk. She literally said to my fiancee (who is disabled and uses a cane regularly) inside in the meat dept. “I should have fucking killed you when I had the chance.” In front of my kid. In the middle of a public place. What do you do then? You call the cops to the grocery store? BC they’ve always been so quick to respond in the past…
I would LOVE to stay here. I love the neighborhood, the homes, how close I am to work, but I can’t pretend things are getting better when they really aren’t. Believe me, I would love to be persuaded to stick it out, but I am not going to risk my family’s safety and my child’s education and well being. If police presence is needed on every street, in every parking lot and grocery store, and at every hour to make people feel safe, then fuck it – I will go somewhere else. It isn’t WORTH IT anymore.
I live directly behind Chimborazo Playground. I work during the day so I guess that’s when the parties are because I have never seen the Grace Street alley–I assume that because the Broad Street alley is super narrow and runs behind buildings and parking areas–filled with anything. I have seen loose dogs, but not that many. A big crowd there in daylight hours, especially on a weekday, would have definitely attracted law enforcement notice.
Trish, you’re not the only one that was surprised by Jaime’s comments about Chimbo Playground. I walk my dog through and around there several times a day…been doing it for years. I’ve never seen anything of these sorts going on there. That’s a pretty quiet park. Basketball players…occasionally…Petanque players…occasionally…gardeners in the back. Gangs with loose dogs…never. As far as couples in the throws of passion…ummmm not so sure about that either. The table that Jaime references is quite a distance from the tot lot in the park. It’s on the opposite side of the restrooms. Jaime either has x-ray vision or a vivid imagination.
The picnic table is quite close to the bucket swings near the petanque fields (lots?). The group of guys drinking at 4pm with 2 dogs running loose was not my imagination and it was going on again yesterday. They are the guys that are always working on cars in that dead end. No clue if that giant blue truck/van is theirs, but there are a lot of trucks and cars in that small alley with the wooden structure that is about to fall down.
Jamie (and others who seem so discouraged),
As someone who has lived here for a couple years now (and who has grown up in Richmond and watched the progress that has been made up here) I can say that things are getting better, not worse. Recent events might make it seem like things are getting out of control, but as John pointed out in the recent article about the homicide statistics, we tend to get a spate of violence at one particular time and then it calms down.
That being said, violence, crime, and people having sex in the park in broad daylight are never acceptable. The best thing to do is to CALL IT IN. I feel like I am harassing the police at times but if they don’t know about it and it isn’t reported, they can’t do anything about it. Jamie, if I was you, when your fiance was threatened at the Market, I would have notified store management (they have security on site) and called the police. Same goes for the goings on at Chimbo Park.
If you feel like the police aren’t showing up or doing their job, talk to their supervisors or city council. Or the mayor. Squeaky wheels get grease, people!
I’m not saying we need to be a community of snitches, but it takes constant effort to make a change. This place is worth it if you stick with it!!
Here’s to a better 2012, Church Hill!!
I understand jamies frustration and fears. I have two small kids and I’m getting worried as well. When you see a body on the street it makes you think. We have the right to feel safe where we live….
More gun shots just now. Not close enough to pinpoint direction, but the dogs in the area just went nuts.
Jaimie, stop bitchin’ and start a revolution!
Get involved in the neighborhood: attend your civic association meetings (where the 1st Precinct always represents, go to the ABC hearings, CAPS meetings @ EDI, City Council Rep roundtables, etc, etc. And speak up!
There all sorts of ways you can be a force for positive change in this community. But you gotta get out there and get involved. Bring your kid–he’ll be welcomed and you’ll show you really care about not only your kid, but all the others in CH.
And BTW, there are now tot-swings in Jefferson Park (just got installed last week). Call the cops when you see/hear activity that disturbs you (like the guys who party in their cars @ the end of overlook on P-Anne). Get in people’s faces, and smile sometimes. Show your ownership and don’t back down.
Whining about stuff and never putting yourself out there isn’t gonna help things get better up here. You got the chutzpa–show it, and you’ll help make a difference.
I. Understand standing up for your neighborhood but you say get in peoples faces -do something….what happens if they put. A gun back in yours? I am all for making the hill a better place but as a mother it is not at the expense of my life or family. I own two properties here in the hill and am all about calling the police and going to meetings but it takes a village…And telling a new mother who is posting her fears on here needs support not to be told to stop bitching.
Observer: Yes things are getting better in fits and starts, I’ve put in my time and so have others,but there comes a point when you are tired of waiting, tired of a mayor who doesn’t seem to give a damn and just tired of fighting. It is a shame because everyone loses.
#23, I dunno, I think I’d at least have told the teenage couple who were fu**ing in the park in broad daylight to ‘go get a room and quit acting disreputable in public.’ I’ve done worse – once saw a couple doing it on the road behind Libby Hill Park (back when you could still drive down it), and hollered at them too. And they were adults, doing it up alongside a car plus it was dark out, however I did have a friend with me who started laughing loudly at them and that broke it up quickly! I’d say the kids in the park needed telling off, esp. since she reported that they kept looking at her – they were waiting to be told off.
And I would most certainly have headed straight for a manager in the Market if someone came at me like Jaime says happened to her – I’ve made friends with most of the managers there. No hesitation at all to complain, loudly.
I guess what I’m saying is she at least needs to start speaking up a bit. Or, move to Short Pump or Midlothian.
Did you do any research before you moved to Church Hill? I did, and everything I came across told me to avoid anything above M Street, east of 33rd and west of Jefferson Park if I didn’t want to see drug deals and hear gun shots all night. Just because Church Hill is “gentrifying” doesn’t mean the process is close to being over. I will say that I have seen a couple of drug deals since moving here (and this is on Broad Street) and I wouldn’t hesitate to call the cops if I heard gunshots or if people were being too loud too late. Crime will lessen greatly in an area where criminals know people are aware and will report, it’s been proven time and time again.
crd, I am sorry you don’t believe me and I am sorry you think I didn’t behave correctly. Thanks for all of your “support.”
Capital Gal (obviously you know me, who are you?), thanks for the info! We hung out at the new swings for a long time this morning – what an excellent addition!
I hate to be a pain…but who could I contact about putting a sign near the swings specifying that they are for children only? I would hate to see such a nice addition broken almost immediately due to teenagers using the swings as something to stand on (as I witnessed today).