But, above all, beat officers credit the drop in violence to the evolution of the geographic, patrol-based community policing plan that began in 2006.
“I was in investigations for six years before I came back out into patrol. I hardly recognized the place,” said Officer Mike Rood, rolling down Macdonald Avenue on a rainy night. “It’s night and day. This is a ghost town.”
Rood, a beat officer assigned to the Iron Triangle, works in a neighborhood transformed like no other.
Throughout the decade, the lower Macdonald corridor seethed with activity at all hours. Nevin Park, long an open-air drug market, now sits empty at 9 p.m.
In the past, a predictable crowd of drug dealers, prostitutes and their customers cluttered side streets, generating crime and also presenting reliable targets for drive-by shooters when disputes broke out among rival neighborhood factions.
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