From the listserv:
(After discussions during monthly PSA 102 meetings, MPD in February 2006 added a second evening footbeat to patrol H St NE, from 4th to 14th Streets NE. A one-officer day shift with Ofc. Williams happens Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. A two-officer evening shift with Officers Nguyen and Walsh happens Tuesday through Saturday from 2:30-11 p.m. MPD First District Commander Diane Groomes celebrated our recent PSA 102 success with this short write-up in the MPD staff newsletter.)
H STREET FOOTBEAT stomps out crime in FIRST DISTRICT
In late 2005, the H Street Corridor in Northeast, DC was suffering from a rash of robberies and also a source of many citizen complaints about the public disorder (drinking, drug sales). The PSA 102 team came up with a plan and ensured that there would be coverage via footbeat along the H Street Corridor. Due to this action crime and calls for service were reduced. Sergeant James Rogers reports that Officer Eric Walsh and Officer Phuson Nguyen volunteered to walk the beat during the evening tour. This dynamic duo made a dent in crime immediately. During the past ten months, these two officers have made over 180 arrests along the corridor. Majority of the arrests are quality of life but they also include two subjects wanted for homicide, three robberies and several drug arrests. Officer Albert Williams handles this corridor during the daywork tour of duty and has personally made over 56 arrests. It has been to their dedication to duty that crime and disorder have been dramatically reduced along this business corridor. THANKS FOR A JOB WELL DONE!
For a photo of Walsh and Nguyen click here.
1 comment:
Below is an email I sent to Commander Groomes and the nearly
immediate (!) promise to address the 200 & 300 blocks of H Street as part of the footbeat.
Best,
Alan Kimber
(c) 202-390-0235
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Commander Groomes,
Thank you so much for your team's dedication to helping us improve H
Street. Although many of the arrests are for quality of life
issues, taking care of these things is often the first step in
making an entire area safer, because there is less general disorder--which provides "cover" for those trying to perpetrate worse crimes.
Please consider extending the footbeats to 2nd Street NE--there are many problems such as public drunkenness, open containers, public urination, harassment of pedestrians and littering related to the liquor store at the corner of 2nd & H Streets NE. There are
residential units in the 200 and 300 blocks of H Street, and these
folks have told me that they end up essentially serving as "bathroom attendants"-pouring bleach and hosing down their sidewalks (and front doors!) to remove the urine stench from whichever intoxicated individuals decided that a door looked like the back of a urinal. Even worse, vomit is a particularly nasty thing to find on one's front door.
As many as 10-15 individuals consistently loiter along the South side of the 200 & 300 blocks of H Street NE after getting their
singles at the liquor store. Just a quick 5 minute extension of the
footbeats would make a huge difference for those of us living on the western end of H Street, and especially those most directly
affected. Thank you.
Again, we all deeply appreciate the outstanding efforts and
achievements of the officers to make H Street a more enjoyable place to visit.
Best,
Alan Kimber
(c) 202-390-0235
P.S., the liquor store owners are nice and fairly helpful as far as
behavior in front of the store, but that just sends the individuals next door where there is a place to sit in front of the abandoned building, and further East on H Street.
*****Response*****
From: Groomes, Diane (MPD)
To: Alan Kimber
Thanks for your email - I will make sure that 102 also addresses
this area as well -
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