August 11, 200816 yr Last night I was the victim of a bike-by spanking on Clifton Ave. I was talking to my brother on my cell phone walking south (uphill) and I heard something behind me. I turn and this guy is pedaling uphill and spanks me and says in broken English "Hey Sexy" and pedals off laughing. I actually looked around for some UC cops to report this to but I didn't see any. The guy was Indian or Bangladeshi and was dressed preppy so I'm thinking he was an exchange student. Anyway, he came close to getting his teeth knocked out and bike thrown into the mill creek courtesy of me.
August 11, 200816 yr Maybe it was Sacha Baron Cohen's new project, in which he plays an Indian preppy who rides around spanking Americans. It's a political satire.
August 11, 200816 yr The new taco hell in corryville is messing up district 4's crime stats. A murder this time...
August 11, 200816 yr So what was the story behind the Taco Bell murder? Has anymore come of this story?
August 12, 200816 yr Posted on: Today at 03:01:43 PMPosted by: unusualfire ^ Show me anywhere that a fast food joint causes more crime? Here's another fast food shooting. Man Found Shot In West End Last Update: 8:30 pm Cincinnati Police are investigating a shooting in the West End that left one man wounded Monday evening. Police say a man was found suffering from a gunshot wound right in front of the Popeye's Chicken restaurant around 5:17 p.m. Preliminary reports indicate this may have been a drive-by shooting. The man was taken to University Hospital His name and condition have not been released.
August 18, 200816 yr Cross posted in "OTR Developments": As of August 30, Martins (111 East McMicken) will close permanently. The owner signed an agreement with the city and CPD today to close permanently, sell or transfer the liquor license, and that the license cannot be used in OTR or the West End. This is a huge win for that part of the neighborhood, and is another great example of citizens and the city working together.
August 19, 200816 yr Crime stats usually spike when the economy goes bad. You will also see a spike in murder every X amount of years when new gang wars breakout for turf. Once the turf battle is over the murder rate will usually drop for X amount of years, rinse and repeat.
August 19, 200816 yr Crime stats usually spike when the economy goes bad. You will also see a spike in murder every X amount of years when new gang wars breakout for turf. Once the turf battle is over the murder rate will usually drop for X amount of years, rinse and repeat. Except Cincinnati has bucked the national trend here. Most large cities across the nation have seen increases in crime with the worsening economy. In Cincinnati both the City and Region have seen decreases, with the City experiencing rapid decreases. Crime is very much linked to economics, but the initiatives/efforts Cincinnati has put in place have payed off big time...and seem to be solutions that are solving the issue of why/how people resort to crime.
August 19, 200816 yr I think Cincy is doing a lot to fight crime and the numbers show it. Lets just hope the city doesn't face any gang turf wars in the near future.
August 19, 200816 yr I think Cincy is doing a lot to fight crime and the numbers show it. Lets just hope the city doesn't face any gang turf wars in the near future. The Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence specifically targets gangs/street networks. Those groups account for a HUGE majority of the crime that takes place in any city. So when you see cities like Cincinnati and Boston adopt the initiative, and see dramatic reductions in crime, you can safely assume that the reduction is coming from progress being made in those groups.
August 19, 200816 yr Things like increasing the chance of folks to finish high school generally reduces the crime rate as well. CPS is key here.
August 27, 200816 yr As of August 30, Martins (111 East McMicken) will close permanently That bar should have been shut down a long time ago, too bad it wasn't sooner. Four Shot, Two Killed In Over-The-Rhine Attack Police: Shooting Happened Near Bar POSTED: 12:29 am EDT August 27, 2008 UPDATED: 12:36 am EDT August 27, 2008 CINCINNATI -- Police are investigating a fatal shooting that happened in the Over-The-Rhine neighborhood. Officers said that four people were shot near Martin’s Bar in the 100 block of East McMicken Street. Two of the victims died, medics said. The shooting happened just before 12:15 a.m. Wednesday. Crime scene investigators have roped off the scene and are looking for evidence. Detectives asked that anyone would information call police immediately
August 27, 200816 yr Both, two people were shot inside the bar and the guy who died was on the street. And trust me, if it happened outside the bar, it was almost always related to the bar.
September 2, 200816 yr Cincinnati Police Get Almost $2M Federal Grant http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=9bb86f60-1151-4d5f-a918-eef2428f258c Cincinnati police are getting almost $2 million for surveillance cameras. The U.S. Department of Justice has finalized a grant to help pay for the project. Cincinnati police hope installing surveillance cameras around the city will reduce violent crime and help catch, then prosecute, criminals.
September 2, 200816 yr Web Site Lets Communities See The Crime http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=8e19f017-3fe1-491c-8530-90178835ea09 The Cincinnati Police Department is spreading the word about a new technology that allows residents to see what crimes are being committed in their neighborhood. The police department is hooked up to a new Web site that allows officers as well as people in the community to access a crime database.
September 4, 200816 yr Has anyone noticed a rise in crime in Pleasant Ridge and the lack of police response time? Just today when my wife returned home from an errand there were 4 man around various parts of our house in what appeared to be a breakin foiled. Our neighbor across the street called the police when she noticed the men, prior to my wifes arrival home. The police arrived 20 minutes after my wife and 5 month old were home. Thats scary slow response time for an attempted burglary or worse. I'll probably post tomorrow that they came back and burglarized the house... but I hope not. Too me as a 4 year resident of pleasant ridge, it certainly feels like crime is on the rise here.
September 4, 200816 yr Calls for service in Pleasant Ridge: Crime trends in Pleasant Ridge: If you combine all of those, this is the overall trend that comes through for Pleasant Ridge: All of this data was pulled from the Cincinnati Police Department's crime reports. The 2008 numbers are only updated through June as of right now. So I simply took those raw numbers and multiplied them by two.
September 4, 200816 yr symmetrical projections have their issues (higher crime in the summer) but if it goes through June it is probably pretty close
September 4, 200816 yr I would tend to agree despite the stats. These bumps tend to happen every few years though (been in the 'hood for 30 odd years). Call the folks at the Community Council. Usually, the cops pay a little more attention and it eases off. I wouldn't be surprised if the current economy will result in a rise in the home invasions. I'm also a little worried that the neighborhood clean-ups that have been moving around town might have displaced some of the troublemakers to PRidge.
September 5, 200816 yr In 4 years I haven't seen 1 random street patrol on either doerger or marmion. Now those are deadend streets, but there have been breakins on marmion within the past year. I don't think that Norwood police or golf manor have juristiction in this area, but could be wrong there. Its kind of an outpost for cincinnati city or at least it feels like an after thought. thanks for the stats. I realize most communities have breakin, but most of them don't walk from their house to your house to do some window shopping.
September 5, 200816 yr I can probably count on one hand the number of times, I've seen a cop on Doerger. I'm exaggerating but only just barely. Only Cincy PD control that part of the Ridge. PRidge gets bounced between District 2 and District 4 - it is pretty far away from both, so they move as they want to mess with the data. I've seen some sketchy stuff go down on Douglas in the last month or so. CPD generally has assigned a neighborhood liaison to the neighborhood so trying to speak with them might be more valuable than putting in a general call. I grew up on Doerger and my family still lives there. I've got friends down on Mapleleaf among other places. I know there are some vacancies around due to subprime and the like.
October 5, 200816 yr Ouch, now Cincinnati is ahead of last years murder rate. This is nothing like Tijuana thou, where 49 was killed in one week there. So we shouldn't complain too much. It could be worse.
October 6, 200816 yr In one of the stories in the paper it said something like, because none of these murders were random this underscores the importance of staying out of illegal activity.
October 28, 200816 yr Reach-out to criminals hits a bump Violence rate went up; did program get too big? http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20081028/NEWS01/810280330/1168/NEWS Police are making home visits to people they believe are leaders of gangs involved in shootings as they look for new ideas to combat Cincinnati's violence. The visits started in August because the pace of killings increased in July and the summer session of the city's anti-crime effort didn't work.
October 30, 200816 yr Well I was almost mugged about an hour ago but successfully eluded two 17 year-old boys. They asked to use my cell phone, I refused, then they said "well gimme everything then!" and flashed a gun. I kind of laughed at them and then a car came along at that very instant and I ran out in front of it to stop it, and the boys ran off. I trotted back to my house and called the police, who had them in cuffs within 3 minutes. Great work by the police. The boys were really stupid because the whole event took place right next to the 5/3 bank at Corry & Euclid and tried to prey on someone who was unintimidated a little faster on his feet than the average chump. I really wasn't worried about them shooting me because the dude had terrible one-handed technique, it was night when it's way tougher to aim, and it was a small gun so there was a good chance of not getting hurt too bad. Key in any of these situations is you have to think of how to use your environment to your advantage, and simply acting calm throws them off.
October 30, 200816 yr Wow...first the close encounter with the bus accident, then this. You've had a tumultuous last week or so. Glad you're alright.
October 30, 200816 yr Yeah I've been on a bit of a streak. The kid with the gun tried to scare me but he had such a high, almost prepubescent voice I actually laughed at him thinking 'is this for real'? Well according to the police it most certainly was because these guys had robbed quite a few people around the area recently but they hadn't fired the gun in any of those incidents.
October 30, 200816 yr If you get the UC emails, there has been a ton of robberies near campus. Far higher than I can remember this decade, though with universities it is quite possible they used some loophole to cover it up.
October 30, 200816 yr If you get the UC emails, there has been a ton of robberies near campus. Far higher than I can remember this decade, though with universities it is quite possible they used some loophole to cover it up. I tend to think it is people getting desperate and becoming bolder in their attempts and at higher frequencies. This kind of thing seems to happen when the economy tanks like it has.
October 31, 200816 yr It's proven that the economy doesn't have much effect on crime. Crime rates rose every year between 1955 and 1972, even as the U.S. economy surged, with only a brief, mild recession in the early 1960s. By the same token, a bad economy doesn't always bring more crime. Crime rates fell about one third between 1934 and 1938 while the nation was struggling to emerge from the Great Depression and weathering another severe economic downturn in 1937 and 1938. Surely, if the economic theory held, crime should have been soaring. http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed111500a.cfm Those kids didn't try and rob him because they needed the money, they did it to prove to each other how 'hard' they were. Most crimes don't pay very well. Drug dealers usually live with their parents or live off of their baby's momma's welfare check. The avg. one would make a lot more money from working at McDonalds but that doesn't give you street credit.
October 31, 200816 yr I do wonder if the rise around campus has more to do with some of the cost savings put in place by the police, like staying parked with the car off for half of every hour. Either that or the Chicago gangs are back (they were big in the rise in crime during and after the riots), things are getting really ugly in Chicago again.
November 4, 200816 yr It doesn't really matter where the source came from. Economic cycles and crime statistics are public information and well known. In my opinion, public policy (including gun control) and the media influence crime more than anything.
November 12, 200816 yr Crime stats usually spike when the economy goes bad. You will also see a spike in murder every X amount of years when new gang wars breakout for turf. Once the turf battle is over the murder rate will usually drop for X amount of years, rinse and repeat. Except Cincinnati has bucked the national trend here. Most large cities across the nation have seen increases in crime with the worsening economy. In Cincinnati both the City and Region have seen decreases, with the City experiencing rapid decreases. Crime is very much linked to economics, but the initiatives/efforts Cincinnati has put in place have payed off big time...and seem to be solutions that are solving the issue of why/how people resort to crime. That's such a contradiction to reports of Cincinnati Police increasing the number of arrests to get as many people processed and moved through the system as they can, in order to justify a new jail facility.
November 13, 200816 yr It doesn't really matter where the source came from. Economic cycles and crime statistics are public information and well known. In my opinion, public policy (including gun control) and the media influence crime more than anything. By gun control I mean lack of gun control.
November 17, 200816 yr Northside/Chase Ave Taliband gang rounded up. http://www.local12.com/mediacenter/[email protected]&navCatId=8&articleID=35924
November 17, 200816 yr Northside/Chase Ave Taliband gang rounded up. Wow, they used Facebook! And they called themselves - Taliband - it was only a matter of time!
November 17, 200816 yr Has anybody else noticed the 'CRUST' graffiti around town? It seems to be everywhere, is it some sort of gang or just a prolific graffiti artist?
November 18, 200816 yr Crust is just a graf artist, he has been around for awhile. Did anybody notice the huge gang tag on the temp work force building on Elm st OTR?
November 18, 200816 yr Crust is just a graf artist, he has been around for awhile. Did anybody notice the huge gang tag on the temp work force building on Elm st OTR? No, what's the intersection? There's also one on 71 on the Dana overpass, I believe.
November 18, 200816 yr Crust is just a graf artist, he has been around for awhile. I'd love to find out who "Crust" really is, so I could go over to his apartment and/or mother's basement and dump a few cans of paint all over his room. I'd call it art.
November 18, 200816 yr Crust is just a graf artist, he has been around for awhile. I'd love to find out who "Crust" really is, so I could go over to his apartment and/or mother's basement and dump a few cans of paint all over his room. I'd call it art. :laugh:
November 18, 200816 yr Wasn't the hip-hop summit held recently in the East End. I can't thing of the name. It attracts graf artists. Scribble Jam?
November 18, 200816 yr Crust is just a graf artist, he has been around for awhile. I'd love to find out who "Crust" really is, so I could go over to his apartment and/or mother's basement and dump a few cans of paint all over his room. I'd call it art. LOL!
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