Children, stop.

The kids have been out on dates at crappy KPC or CKF.

 

Kalifornia Pizza Citchen?  Cheese Kake Factory?

Yes, I didn't feel like typing it out.  LOL ;)

Yes, I didn't feel like typing it out. LOL ;)

 

With what, your thumbs??

Bank Robbery at bank in Willoughby Hills

Women beat up and robbed in Walgreens parking lot during the day on route 91 in Willoughby by Willoughby Hills border

Riot at Beachwood Place Mall

Two kids abducted/held to gun point in Mentor Walmarts parking lot, then let go.

 

Trouble in paradise...

 

Another story from that area

 

<b>Man robs Key Bank in Willoughby</b>

 

WILLOUGHBY, Ohio - Willoughby police are looking for information after a Key Bank branch was robbed Thursday.

 

The robbery happened around 12:44 p.m. at the Key Bank in the 34000 block of Euclid Avenue....

 

http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/man-robs-key-bank-in-willoughby

So I saw some story about a University Heights man who was carjacked and kidnapped in his driveway and taken down to East Cleveland.  His abductors demanded a ransom from his family.  But the guy managed to get away and police found him on the street gagged and handcuffed.  Crazy stuff.  I can't remember ever hearing about any ransom driven kidnappings around here where the abductee was just an average joe like this guy seems to be.

Maybe more to the story than was told.  Maybe he owed them money from, or was a partner or competitor in some illicit enterprise.  Can't sue for damages, then, so kidnapping may have been their "best" way of seeking redress.

^^I read the article, and while it is pure speculation on my part, I got the feeling that there was more to it than an average joe being kidnapped from his driveway.

That's why I said "seems to be"

 

As of yet, there is nothing to corroborate the conspiracy theories.  But, yes, I have my suspicions.  It would almost be too random just to be random.

^

Agreed. Sounds too random to be random. Sounds like a shady cover story to me. You usually don't tell the police or the newspaper  that you owe your bookie or dealer $10k and he was looking to get the money one way or another.

 

If it isn't, talk about bad luck on that guys part.

 

 

Pepper Pike:

 

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2011/01/men_posing_as_the_law_invade_h.html

 

ಠ_ಠ

 

So I saw some story about a University Heights man who was carjacked and kidnapped in his driveway and taken down to East Cleveland.  His abductors demanded a ransom from his family.  But the guy managed to get away and police found him on the street gagged and handcuffed.  Crazy stuff.  I can't remember ever hearing about any ransom driven kidnappings around here where the abductee was just an average joe like this guy seems to be.

 

Here's the link to the original story

 

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2011/01/university_heights_man_escapes.html

 

Of greater interest is the fact that this is the second time in as many years that this has happened...to the same guy.

 

Oh...and he's an (ex?)drug dealer apparently as well

 

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2011/01/tuesday_night_kidnapping_was_s.html

 

 

^ I am guessing that wasn't very random after reading that. At least they let him go so he could make his court date on Monday.

Of greater interest is the fact that this is the second time in as many years that this has happened...to the same guy.

 

Oh...and he's an (ex?)drug dealer apparently as well

 

I just saw this second story last night.  They also mention that it is believed it was the same SUV that kidnapped him the first time, and likely the same people.  It's a strange story, but I think the Pepper Pike home invasion is even more strange.

I think the Pepper Pike thing was a planned hit too.  There is more to that story for sure.

Something awful just happened in Euclid.  A cop under investigation just took his own life.... right there at the station... in the Captain's office from what I hear.

Gah, that's terrible. Wonder what he was under investigation for?

He was a narcotics officer from what I heard and there was a question of missing evidence (money or drugs, most likely).

That's horrible. Dramatic, but horrible.

Wow.  I drove by the Euclid Police Station on my lunch break and noticed a couple TV vans.  Sad story...

Boom. Smash and grab at the Apple Store in Crocker Park. $30k stolen  in 30 seconds.

 

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/05/10/another-smash-and-grab-at-the-crocker-park-apple-store-in-westla/

 

Another smash and grab at the Crocker Park Apple Store in Westlake, OH

by David Winograd (RSS feed) on May 10th 2011 at 5:00PM

 

 

 

On Friday morning, a smash-and-grab robbery of yet another Apple Store took place at the Crocker Park Apple Store in Westlake, Ohio, an upscale suburb of Cleveland. Around 4:30 AM, three burglars smashed in the front window activating the burglar alarm as well as the store's security cameras, which caught it all on tape. The well-organized thieves were in and out in thirty seconds after stealing twenty-four notebooks and one iPod touch. The culprits, wearing all black, left no apparent trail, and so far, the Westlake police have no disclosed leads....

 

 

Is the CHPD really this incompetent?  This is part of the reason why I always say that CH has its priorities all wrong.

 

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2011/05/cleveland_heights_police_faile.html

Well... we all know how much you love the CHPD, Clevelander17.  Nevertheless, no need to indict an entire department for the mistake of an investigator that did not properly follow up. Your indictment really applies to police in general.  Cleveland PD also failed to follow up with Sowell evidence.  The state is actually looking into handling all rape evidence itself

Well... we all know how much you love the CHPD, Clevelander17.  Nevertheless, no need to indict an entire department for the mistake of an investigator that did not properly follow up. Your indictment really applies to police in general.  Cleveland PD also failed to follow up with Sowell evidence.  The state is actually looking into handling all rape evidence itself

 

No, my indictment is only upon the CHPD at the direction of those running CH that seem to have their priorities all wrong.

I have no idea if this type of thing is endemic to the CHPD or not, but it seems outrageous that the kit wasn't sent out for testing and that there records weren't even in good enough shape to be able to answer a press inquiry about it properly.  Certainly the type of thing worth firing someone for.

Lets play a game, no cheating.

 

Rank these cities in order for violent crime/1000

 

Here are the Cities

 

Amherst

Avon

Beachwood

Chagrin Falls

Chardon

Cleveland Heights

East Cleveland

Eastlake

Euclid

Lakewood

Lorain

Maple Heights

Mentor

North Olmsted

Parma

Rocky River

Shaker Heights

Solon

Strongsville

University Heights

Westlake

Willoughby

 

And if you want to try, rank in order of Non-Violent/1000

 

Total shot in the dark..... not much rhime or reason

 

East Cleveland

Lorain

Maple Heights

Euclid

Parma

Amherst

Lakewood

Mentor

University Heights

Cleveland Heights

Shaker Heights

Willoughby

Chardon

Eastlake

Beachwood

Solon

Strongsville

Westlake

North Olmsted

Rocky River

Avon

I know that Univ. Hts. always comes out awful because of the rapes.  I wonder how many of those are JCU "date rapes".

 

Are you using the one year stats (that they use in Cleveland Magazine)?  It's nearly impossible to rank cities with relatively small absolute numbers of crimes because they fluctuate so much from year to year.  I believe Elyria and Painesville were right up there with East Cleveland one year and then both were way down the next.  Cleveland Heights was ranked as 16th safest or something a few years back and the next year was about 50th.  The only constants are that East Cleveland is always the worst and Lorain tends to be not too far behind.

 

Cities with a lot of retail also tend to have higher crime rates (especially non-violent) both because retail presents more opportunity for crime, but also because it brings more visitors to the city which aren't residents (thereby raising the crime opportunities without raising the denominator in the per capita rate).  I believe this is why Mentor always fares pretty poorly in these rankings.

East Cleveland

Lorain

Euclid

Maple Heights

Shaker Heights

Cleveland Heights

University Heights

Eastlake

Lakewood

Parma

Avon

Beachwood

Mentor

North Olmsted

Amherst

Strongsville

Rocky River

Solon

Westlake

Willoughby

Chardon

Chagrin Falls

Hts., you cheated!  I saw you move Univ. Hts. up after my little hint. :)

East Cleveland is automatic lol. And Ill give the answer around 5, give people more time to participate if they feel like it.

My complete guesses:

 

East Cleveland

Lorain

Maple Heights

Euclid

Parma

Amherst

University Heights

Lakewood

Cleveland Heights

Mentor

Eastlake

Willoughby

Shaker Heights

North Olmsted

Beachwood

Solon

Chagrin Falls

Rocky River

Chardon

Strongsville

Westlake

Avon

Hts., you cheated!  I saw you move Univ. Hts. up after my little hint. :)

 

That's defamatory.  I certainly did not.  I was in the process of editing and didn't even notice your post until after modifying.  When I looked at my list and thought about it, I made quite a few adjustments.  The key here is not overall crime but crime per 1000.  That made me make the changes I did.  My reasons for moving UH up actually had nothing to do with JCU or rapes.  It had more to do with the fact that it has such a low pop, doesn't have any really high-end areas, and is in the inner ring.

 

EDIT:  Look who's cheating now.  Did you just cut and copy my list?  Funny how neither one of us even bothered to list Chagrin Falls.

EDIT:  Look who's cheating now.  Did you just cut and copy my list?  Funny how neither one of us even bothered to list Chagrin Falls.

 

LOL, yes, I cheated.  I copied your list and just modified it a little.  Take that as a compliment!

 

EDIT: I mean, what do you mean?  I listed Chagrin Falls!  :wink:

 

I'm waiting for someone with Cleveland Magazine to actually cheat.  (I'm assuming that's where the "answers" will be coming from.)

^ hahah yes thats were the answers will come from. NO CHEATING  :wink:

I'd guess:

 

East Cleveland

Lorain

Parma

Lakewood

Cleveland Heights

Eastlake

Maple Heights

Shaker Heights

University Heights

Euclid

North Olmsted

Willoughby

Mentor

Avon

Chardon

 

Rocky River

Amherst

Solon

Strongsville

Westlake

Beachwood

Chagrin Falls

Violent Crime/1000

 

East Cleveland - 130.64

Maple Heights - 22.60

Euclid - 11.35

Lorain - 10.95

University Heights - 7.31

Eastlake - 5.76

North Olmsted - 5.59

Amherst - 5.07

Shaker Heights - 4.96

Lakewood - 4.93

Chagrin Falls - 3.65

Westlake - 3.30

Cleveland Heights - 3.17

Chardon - 3.11

Mentor - 3.10

Parma - 2.90

Rocky River - 2.47

Beachwood - 2.34

Solon - 2.23

Strongsville - 1.63

Avon - 1.60

Willoughby - 1.48

Chagrin Falls in the middle of the pack. Surprising.

 

Nothing else in there is very surprising. 130/1000 is absurd. That's a failed city. Shut it down.

the chagrin falls park. part of chagrin falls, but a whole nother world... its their dirty little secret.

What's Cleveland's rate?  For comparison purposes...

the chagrin falls park. part of chagrin falls, but a whole nother world... its their dirty little secret.

 

Chagrin Falls Park is in Bainbridge Township.  But, yeah, it's Bainbridge Township's dirty little secret.  If you look closely, though, you'll see that all of Chagrin Falls's violent crime was assaults (11), the "least violent" of the violent crime, usually.  They had 0 murders, 0 rapes, and 0 aggravated robberies.  This is why, even though their violent crimes/1000 people stats wasn't that low, they were ranked much better in the Safety Ranking (where they presumably weight murders and rapes much worse than assaults).

 

Also of note is that Chagrin Falls Park residents attend Kenston schools.

 

http://www.chagrinvalleytimes.com/NC/0/2271.html

 

Also, some children who live in Bainbridge -- and whose parents may think they live in Chagrin Falls because of the postal address -- do attend Chagrin Falls schools because of some old, confusing delineation of district boundaries. But children who live in the Chagrin Falls Park neighborhood, which is quite close to Chagrin Falls schools, happen to live in Bainbridge and attend Kenston schools.

What's Cleveland's rate?  For comparison purposes...

 

According to City Data, in 2009 it was 13.95, and they based that off a population estimate of 433,000.

I had 6 of the top/worst 8 correct, and 4 of the safest 6.

 

Was way wrong on the bloodthirsty residents of Chagrin Falls. I gave Parma and Cleveland Hts. an undeserved bad rap.  Also surprised to see North Olmsted and Amherst toward the top.

 

 

What's Cleveland's rate?  For comparison purposes...

 

I could be wrong but Clevelands rate was 13.95/1000 in 2009.

 

Edit: I did the math from the numbers reported from the FBI

Really, every City listed between Lorain and Strongsville are probably all equally within a margin of error..... with a lot depending on probability of reporting crimes, especially assaults.

Edit: I did the math from the numbers reported from the FBI

 

(1) City Data must use the FBI numbers.

 

(2) We must either both be good or both be bad at math. :)

 

(3) Interesting that even with all of the non-city residents boosting the city's population when they come to the city for work (as well as people coming to the city for sports, plays, Rock Hall, etc.), Cleveland still has about half the violent crime of Maple Heights.

 

(4) East Cleveland is simply off the charts.

Cleveland has half the violent crime as Maple Hts?

Few cities not on the list I suspect are on the higher end...

Cleveland has half the violent crime as Maple Hts?

 

Violent crime 'rate'...... big difference.

Cleveland has half the violent crime as Maple Hts?

 

Violent crime 'rate'...... big difference.

 

I'm sure that's what he meant.  I think it's a surprise to many people that any city has a higher rate than Cleveland itself (other than East Cleveland), especially when you consider that Maple Heights only has 5% of its population below the poverty line.

This happened just a few minutes away from me and my mother probably won't let me forget about it for a while.  I periodically go down the street on my bike when I don't want to stray very far from home.

 

http://www.fox8.com/news/wjw-twinsburg-murder-investigation,0,7636002.story

 

By Lindsay Buckingham

FOX8.com Reporter

3:27 p.m. EDT, June 5, 2011

 

TWINSBURG, Ohio— The Twinsburg Police Department and the Summit County Medical Examiner's Office are investigating the death of a 36-year-old man.

 

Investigators said the man's wife returned home Sunday morning to find her husband dead in the bathroom of their Country Club Lane home.

 

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