News Next Door: Midtown Group Reviews Rash of Robberies
The Midtown Ponce Security Alliance takes a closer look at robbery trends in and around the nonprofit neighborhood group's service area, which includes Grady High School.
Street robberies comprise our most dangerous public safety challenge, as a robbery is but a step short of a homicide. Previous trends In the first few years of MPSA operations, the robbery suspects tended to be on foot, with incidents occurring largely in one of two scenarios. The most common was that the perps struck on Ponce, or in the lower third of the service area, and then fled on foot into the Bedford-Pine area. Proactive efforts led in large part by the MPSA have pretty much eliminated this trend by addressing street people activity in the Ponce corridor, driven by the broken-window principle that a reduction in blatancy and public disorder will lead to a reduction in overall crime for the area. In the other scenarios, thugs …
