Chamb. Ave. Arrests

Capt. Kiniry attended the Civic Association meeting on April 18, 2000. He brought along a list of arrests on Chamberlayne Ave. during 1999. The release of these data (we have been trying to get them for three years) marks a new era of openness by the Police Dept. The data themselves are dramatic.

First, a caveat: Capt. Kiniry points out that the printout merely lists charges filed, not number of arrests. For instance, on Jan. 6 there are four listings at 3916 Chamberlayne: possession w/intent to distribute; possession of marijuana; maintaining a fortified drug house; and contempt of court. Those could represent four separate arrests at the same address or one arrest with four charges or something in between. The list does not distinguish. Given that limitation, here are the Big Winners north of Brookland Park Boulevard showing the number of offenses charged and the % of the 236 for the year:

That's right folks: The Redwood at 3916 had 17% of the arrests and Abbey Square (next door at 3918-20) had 12.3%.

Here are the same data displayed as a function of the number of offenses reports (crimes reported) at the same address:

FYI: 3916 is the Redwood Apartments; 3918-20 is the Abbey Square Apartments; 3207-11-15 is the large Northcourt apartment complex; 4924 is the check cashing store at Azalea; 3505 is Hawthorne Hall Apts.; 4930 is the BP at the corner of Chamberlayne and Azalea; 3905-43 is the Bellevue Gardens (the entire east side of the 3900 block).

Statute	Total	Offense
18.2-119	12	Trespass after having been forbidden to do so
18.2-456	5	Cases in which courts and judges may punish summarily for contempt
18.2-250	4	Possession of controlled substances unlawful
19.2-128	3	Penalties for failure to appear
18.2-250.1	2	Possession of marijuana unlawful
19.2-306	2	Revocation of suspension of sentence and probation
18.2-128	1	Trespass upon church or school property
18.2-248	1	Manufacturing, selling, giving, distributing or possessing with intent
18.2-248.1	1	Penalties for sale, gift, distribution or possession with intent to sell, give or distribute marijuana
18.2-255.2	1	Prohibiting the sale of drugs on or near certain properties
18.2-258.02	1	Maintaining a fortified drug house
18.2-346	1	Being a prostitute or prostitution
18.2-387	1	Indecent exposure
18.2-388	1	Profane swearing and intoxication in public
18.2-460	1	Obstructing justice
18.2-57	1	Assault and battery
18.2-95MV	1	Grand larceny
46.2-301	1	Driving while license, permit, or privilege to drive suspended or revoked
46.2-894	1	Duty of driver to stop, etc., in event of accident involving injury or death or damage to attended property
Grand Total	41

Viewed in context of the offense data and calls for services, and the long, unfortunate history of enforcement efforts at the Redwood, these data say, as clearly as can be said, that it's time to do something about the Redwood.