Happy 4th of July! Please be safe tonight whether out on the roads or shooting off fireworks in the community.
There have been a couple Pedestrian Robberies this week, including one near Gresham and Portland and one at Fayetteville and Flat Shoals this morning. These are traditionally the two highest risk areas for late night crime, so please be extremely alert if you need to be in either place in the early morning hours. For those leaving the EAV late at night, the whole area on and around Portland from Stokeswood to Brownwood is by far the number one place for robbers to lurk at night.
One more reminder that if you have a streetlight out in your area, please report it promptly to the EASP or Georgia Power. One resident reported that a streetlight has been out on Portland for several months, and we need to do better as a community in reporting these outages, especially in a higher risk part of our community. There have also been a lot of missing street signs reported, which are potential public safety issues if someone can't identify their location. Please also watch for road signs obscured by trees or bushes, as several of those have also been reported this week.
The detailed crime reports for the week ending June 11th have been posted. Hopefully APD will get caught up next week after the holiday weekend.
Through the first six months of the year in East Atlanta, our two most significant crimes project to be down by about 25% in 2016. Pedestrian robberies have totaled eight thus far, after twenty-two for all of 2015. Residential burglaries have totaled twenty-two through June, compared to about sixty for all of 2015.
Tomorrow is the final day to sign up for the EASP for the July - September quarter. Remember that more members enables us to provide more patrol hours, and more members on your street means more of the patrol time is spent on your street. EASP officers are dedicated to East Atlanta, something that isn't true of our beat officers, who regularly leave the community to answer 911 calls in neighboring beats. All EASP officers are off-duty APD officers, in uniform, armed and with full arrest powers.
There have been a couple Pedestrian Robberies this week, including one near Gresham and Portland and one at Fayetteville and Flat Shoals this morning. These are traditionally the two highest risk areas for late night crime, so please be extremely alert if you need to be in either place in the early morning hours. For those leaving the EAV late at night, the whole area on and around Portland from Stokeswood to Brownwood is by far the number one place for robbers to lurk at night.
One more reminder that if you have a streetlight out in your area, please report it promptly to the EASP or Georgia Power. One resident reported that a streetlight has been out on Portland for several months, and we need to do better as a community in reporting these outages, especially in a higher risk part of our community. There have also been a lot of missing street signs reported, which are potential public safety issues if someone can't identify their location. Please also watch for road signs obscured by trees or bushes, as several of those have also been reported this week.
The detailed crime reports for the week ending June 11th have been posted. Hopefully APD will get caught up next week after the holiday weekend.
Through the first six months of the year in East Atlanta, our two most significant crimes project to be down by about 25% in 2016. Pedestrian robberies have totaled eight thus far, after twenty-two for all of 2015. Residential burglaries have totaled twenty-two through June, compared to about sixty for all of 2015.
Tomorrow is the final day to sign up for the EASP for the July - September quarter. Remember that more members enables us to provide more patrol hours, and more members on your street means more of the patrol time is spent on your street. EASP officers are dedicated to East Atlanta, something that isn't true of our beat officers, who regularly leave the community to answer 911 calls in neighboring beats. All EASP officers are off-duty APD officers, in uniform, armed and with full arrest powers.