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4500 Colley Avenue
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Norfolk, VA 23508
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Neighborhood Safety Suggestions
Q32 - (If dissatisfied with safety in your neighborhood) What should the City do to
improve your feeling of safety in your neighborhood?
I would like to see more police officers patrolling.
Across the street from where I live are suspect apartments. They need more frequent monitoring of those areas.
Have more patrols and quicker response times like the Fire Dept. Police are supposed to come out at night and
enforce the curfew law, but people holler up to 2:00 a.m. or there is noise pollution and music in this area. On a cool
night like tonight, you wouldn’t be able to get any sleep.
I don't think there is anything that can be done. I have security cameras around the house, and law enforcement
officers live nearby, but there still have been car break-ins.
I want more police officers patrolling.
I live on a dead-end road where some questionable activities go on. The police do respond, but it's still a problem.
I would like to see more of a police presence. Too often, the police are busy writing speeding tickets and not
focusing on public safety.
I've just had very bad experiences with the police not following up after 911 calls.
They need to increase police patrols and maybe increase the lighting in my neighborhood. I've had neighbors who
have been robbed. I’ve also seen people looking around for cars that are open.
It's just the area. More police presence may not do a whole lot toward my feeling safer.
I’d like more police officers to patrol.
Have more patrols at night. My neighbors were robbed six times. It has been on the news. I don't know if they cut
down on the number of the patrols in my neighborhood, but we need more police presence at night.
We need more patrols after midnight when all the riff-raff comes out.
We need more patrols. There are fights in my neighborhood, cars racing up and down the street, and theft, but I
never see a patrol car.
More police presence in some of the park areas would help.
More police presence would be nice. Homelessness is a problem. They are always begging.
My neighborhood is changing. There are more renters and Section 8 houses where people don't take care of
property like owners would.
My neighborhood is predominately black, and there's only one way out. I wish there was more police presence since
we have one way to drive in and one way to drive out.
It's probably impossible due to manpower, but we have had some daytime break-ins, so maybe seeing more police
cars would help.
I would hope to have more police officers patrolling.
Respond quickly when we call the police.
Somebody broke in and stole all my jewelry. I was satisfied with what the police did, though.
Somehow, get the crime out of my neighborhood. I don't have a solution.
There have been three recent break-ins. My cousin's car was stolen out of her front yard within the last ten days.
My car is a convertible, and I don't lock it because they would split the top to gain access.
There is nothing they can do because there are bars and other problems nearby.
They should have more patrols. Even bicycle patrols would be nice. If police were more present, without being
harassing, it would help.
We don't see cops in our neighborhood unless we call them. There is a known crackhouse in my neighborhood, and
they don't do anything. But, they give me a ticket driving down the road.
We need more police watching for speeding cars. Cars fly by like they are on a race track.
