police activity in brooklyn

[nagrom73]

Just finished driving down park street from downtown. Each road running north from park street had a police car blocking to road and as I looked north along each street, I saw multiple other police cars appearing to form a rrelatively tight perimeter in the area. I would like to know what is going on and why no news stations are aware. These are the things that should be reported, yet since JSO has taken the ability of the media to monitor activity, we are left unaware. I have reported it to a media outlet hoping to get details on the news or a website. If you know, please post.

[Dog Walker]

There was some sort of charity run in Riverside this morning and some streets were blocked temporarily by JSO, but what your are describing sounds like something else.

[nagrom73]

Yeah, the hale and hearty was this morning, but it didn't go through that area and the race was well over by the time I rode through.

[PATSY/AUTUMN]

Local media also chose to ignore the damage incurred to 100 year old historic Annie Lytle Public school #4 by a fool in a truck on Thursday morning.  Interesting what Jacksonville finds newsworthy.  Only mention "we" have found so far is in this forum, thanks to Dog Walker. 

[Jdog]

Yesterday evening I walked from the Convention Center to Brooklyn over the Park Street viaduct.  There were a solid fifteen or more homeless camps set up along the creek below the bridge.  Nobody was there --- except for two or three policemen giving the place a look over.

[MusicMan]

I just drove through the area and did not see any signs of criminal activity. Cops were standing around peacefully interacting with the locals.....................Looked more like astreet party than anything else:)

However I am still surprised at how poor that area appears to be. Hard to believe all the new stuff going in 2-3 blocks away.

[spuwho]

I highly recommend you keep a copy of the Twitter account or email address for the newsrooms with the local news outlets.

I have been surprised how responsive some of them have been in the absence of monitoring police radio. I have had newsroom producers contact me directly when I send themstuff.

WJXT seems more responsive in the downtown, no doubt due to proximity. Fox/CBS is based out on the Southside, so unless it is a prearranged deal or one where police are spending alot of time investigating, sometimes they just don't make it out there with a truck. It might be a reporter and his cameraman for a taped report.

[nagrom73]

I called the number online for ch 4 and first coast news. Doesn't appear anything came from the call.

I doubt this was a block party. It was much earlier in the day and I didn't hear any music or such. And there would have been no way to get far enough to see the police just standing around hanging with the crowd.

This kind of thing keeps happening and I am noticing in murray hill that a lot of crap has been going down and not being reported. About a week ago there was a shooting and the guy took off running through yards and finally was taken down next to my friend's house. Didn't see any reports for that. And apparently the week before that someone was shot at the intersection of post and mcduff. No news information on that either.

[Lunican]

JSO has a crime mapping tool:  http://www.coj.net/departments/sheriffs-office/crime-statistics.aspx

[Lunican]

JSOPIO twitter feed may also help: https://twitter.com/JSOPIO

[JayBird]

I called the number online for ch 4 and first coast news. Doesn't appear anything came from the call.

I doubt this was a block party. It was much earlier in the day and I didn't hear any music or such. And there would have been no way to get far enough to see the police just standing around hanging with the crowd.

This kind of thing keeps happening and I am noticing in murray hill that a lot of crap has been going down and not being reported. About a week ago there was a shooting and the guy took off running through yards and finally was taken down next to my friend's house. Didn't see any reports for that. And apparently the week before that someone was shot at the intersection of post and mcduff. No news information on that either.

I would venture to say less than 5% of police arrests are actually reported on the news, they would have to designate all of their airtime to takedowns! You will hear about crime in "nicer" areas only if sensational or a public threat.  JSO is actually a lot of good officers, everytime I have stopped and asked what has been going on, they've always told me.  Plus they do not publicize stuff for obvious reasons, in 2005 JSO was on COPS (A FOX tv show) and chased a car out to 95 downtown where they bailed and took off down the bank and down Beaver Street and got away.  My neighbor who is a FHP LT uses this example all of the time because in the six months after it aired they had 120- something police chases, compared to an average 30.  He says this is why FHP refuses to let such shows ridealong.  The public sees it and says "I can run from them."  As much as people criticize "police-state" mentality, JSO is much better than even Clay or St Johns.  Also, if interested in activities of the Sheriff, attend your monthly SHADCo meetings.  They are know they are public servants and are actually trained to talk with everyone, but you have to ask.  Finally, you should be happy to get the info from an on-scene officer anyway, without the newscast spin.

[PATSY/AUTUMN]

Let me say that Annie Lytle we have great police cooperation.  We have NO complaints with them.  My only complaint was with local media.  A 100 year old building being subjected to this kind of damage by a man in a truck who came off the bridge, down the ramp, across Park Street, down one street, missed the curve, crashed into debris in the street strewing it all over, breaks through the chained gate, goes airborne and finally hits the planter at the bottom of the steps.....THIS isn't news?  Beats a lot of the other things they cover.