Lt.Beazley’s Sector 112 June report (PDF) (covering Blackwell, Oak Grove, Shockoe Bottom, Shockoe Slip, Manchester, Old Town Manchester, and Hillside Court) is now available:

In June, Sector 112 experienced a 3% reduction in crimes when compared June 2009. This reduction occurred because of a decrease in violent crimes in the sector, even though there was a slight increase in robberies. Unlike the trend of previous months where we saw huge increases in the number of property crimes, in June we were actually dead even with last years number of property crimes. Although I would like to start to see a reduction in the future, this is a step in the right direction. Our larcenies from automobiles have finally started to level out, so please continue to keep you valuables out of sight when securing your vehicles. In reference to some of the robberies, their seemed to be a rash of incidents around the city related to a few individuals, arrests have been made and hopefully that spike of violent crimes will now stop.

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Lt.Beazley’s Sector 112 May report (PDF) (covering Blackwell, Oak Grove, Shockoe Bottom, Shockoe Slip, Manchester, Old Town Manchester, and Hillside Court) is now available:

For May 2010 Sector 112 had 7 violent crimes, this was a decrease of 46% when compared to May 2009. The reduction was shown in Homicides declining from 3 to 1, and Aggravated Assaults showing a reduction from 13 to 7. Unfortunately property crimes did not follow the same pattern, the sector showed an increase of 62% in property crimes, from 39 in May 2009 to 63 in 2010. This increase has been because of a major increase in theft from automobiles.

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A message from Sector 112 Lieutenant John W. Beazley:

Please be advised that the City will be utilizing street cleaners in the Bottom this weekend. The street cleaning will start at 2:30 am Sunday morning (Saturday Night) there are signs posted on Main Street at this time, however the area may be expanded.

Please provide me with any positive or negative feedback regarding the street cleaning. There is a possibility the city will continue this cleaning weekly; therefore, I wanted to reach out to you for comments or concerns. I’m aware that there are a few businesses still operating pass 2:30 am, so you may have some concerns regarding the time of the cleanings as well as some parking concerns.

Lieutenant Williams’ Sector 112 report for June (PDF) is available. Sector 112 encompasses the communities of Belle Island, Oak Grove, Blackwell, Manchester, Old Town Manchester, Ancarrow’s Landing, Brown’s Island, Shockoe Slip, Shockoe Bottom and Hillside Court.

During the next 30 days officers will continue to attack problems that tend to spike our crime. Officers will be focusing in the areas of Blackwell, Hillside and Shockoe to impact violent crime and theft from autos. Also in July, Hull Street will see the return of the “Beat Cop”, Officer Deadra Swilley will begin walking daily on the 6th. She has set several goals and hopes to build a strong community presence.

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I crashed the Shockoe Bottom Neighborhood Association meeting this evening at the soon-to-open Sheba Ethiopian Restaurant and it was super informative. If you’re neighbor a or business owner in the area and want to stay in the know, you should really be making it out for these every-3rd-Monday meetings.

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A neighborhood walk-through has been set for this Saturday, as part of the police department effort to identify citizen concerns about the area. A representative from Sector 112 will accompany citizens on a tour of potentially troubled areas. Meet at 11AM @ the Farmers Market. Once problems have been identified, including crime and environmental issues that could contribute to crime, the sector lieutenants and officers will develop action plans to address the problems and resolve them within a specified time period. [via]

There has been a leadership change at First Precinct. The new commander is Paul Ronca and the new Sector 111 lieutenant is James (JJ) Laino. Lieutenant Emmett William remains in place for Sector 112.