Crime in the 300 blocks of E. Little Creek Road, Fort Worth Ave, and San Antonio Blvd

July 11, 2011

Much has been said about the crime (and/or perception of crime) emanating from the three criminal cancer infected blocks of 300 E. Little Creek Road, 300 Forth Worth Ave, and 300 San Antonio Blvd.

Below is the crime report for the 300 blocks from June 1, 2011 – July 9, 2011.

Crime description:	Location:	                Date/time:
LARCENY (ALL OTHERS)	300 BLOCK SAN ANTONIO BLVD	7/9/2011 11:00:00
LARCENY-PARTS FROM AUTO	300 BLOCK SAN ANTONIO BLVD	7/8/2011 6:00:00
ROBBERY-INDIVIDUAL	300 BLOCK FORT WORTH AV	        7/6/2011 21:50:00
NARCOTICS VIOLATIONS	300 BLOCK FORT WORTH AV	        6/30/2011 20:55:00
LARCENY (ALL OTHERS)	300 BLOCK SAN ANTONIO BLVD	6/29/2011 18:40:00
LARCENY-PARTS FROM AUTO	300 BLOCK SAN ANTONIO BLVD	6/29/2011 7:20:00
ROBBERY-INDIVIDUAL	300 BLOCK FORT WORTH AV	        6/26/2011 1:30:00
VANDALISM	        7800 BLOCK GALVESTON BLVD	6/25/2011 16:00:00
VANDALISM	        300 BLOCK SAN ANTONIO BLVD	6/22/2011 12:06:00
BURGLARY-RESIDENCE	7600 BLOCK GALVESTON BLVD	6/22/2011 7:30:00
VANDALISM	        300 BLOCK SAN ANTONIO BLVD	6/21/2011 14:00:00
VANDALISM	        7800 BLOCK DALLAS ST	        6/12/2011 11:00:00
VANDALISM	        300 BLOCK SAN ANTONIO BLVD	6/9/2011 20:00:00
LARCENY-PARTS FROM AUTO	300 BLOCK E LITTLE CREEK RD	6/7/2011 6:00:00
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT	300 BLOCK E LITTLE CREEK RD	6/6/2011 23:20:00
BURGLARY-RESIDENCE	300 BLOCK SAN ANTONIO BLVD	6/4/2011 22:00:00
VANDALISM	        300 BLOCK SAN ANTONIO BLVD	6/1/2011 5:00:00
Crime in the 300 blocks of E. Little Creek Road, Fort Worth Ave, and San Antonio Blvd

Crime in the 300 blocks of E. Little Creek Road, Fort Worth Ave, and San Antonio Blvd

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Pilot Editorial focuses on Wards Corner

July 11, 2011

Again highlighting the City’s failure to adequately address the criminal cancer in Denby Park, the Virginian-Pilot printed an editorial in today’s paper stating, in part:

As it has been for years, though, the solution to Denby Park’s problems is not a playground. Or removing a playground. The solution is in a relentless attention to the problems of Wards Corner: a concentration of poverty, crime.

And that will take much more effort than moving a playground from one lot to another.

The following are the full comments sent to Pilot writer Harry Minium by Martin Thomas, Jr.

The Wards Corner area neighborhoods have been begging the City for years to do something about the criminal element in Denby Park.  The 2003 Wards Corner Comprehensive Plan called for the demolition of the
substandard housing in the 300 blocks of San Antonio Blvd, Fort Worth Ave, and E. Little Creek Road.  Not a single one of the approximately 47 buildings in those blocks has been demolished at this point.

We should not expect the citizens of Norfolk to have to raise their families in a neighborhood, which in those three blocks, is infected with a criminal cancer.

The park, almost immediately after construction, became a hangout for criminals.  I support the Denby Park/Monticello Village civic league in their request to move the park to a safer area where the families in those neighborhoods can enjoy the use the park without concern for their safety.

Pertinent quote from page 28 of the Greater Wards Corner Comprehensive Plan :

[T]he high-density walkup apartments constructed in the Texas Streets section of Denby Park are, for the most part, not desirable housing.  They have been built too close together, without appropriate provision of open space, and without amenities. The maze-like character of the resulting development, its proximity to highly-travelled Little Creek Road and to Interstate – 64 make it unfortunately suitable for drug dealing and for serving as a base for other criminal activity. The Norfolk police report that the situation in these buildings is getting worse. They recommend major change: the acquisition and demolition of these buildings, before the situation has even more adverse impacts on the surrounding neighborhoods.  The many respectable people who are living in these buildings are being victimized by the current situation.

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