Heh. At least they tried. Most TV news reports would just say “North Side” to mean anything between Downtown and Delaware County.

There have been a bunch in Old North/UD for about a month. We’re talking multiple ARMED home invasions a week, sometimes multiple a night all in the area Eugene points out. Bas soon as Clintonvile had one or two, (there were a couple just north of the ravine) it suddenly became newsworthy. The whole neighborhood is on edge, police have been here in force and undercover, I’ve heard the chopper more in the last 2 weeks than I did when I lived in, let’s say, les desireable neighborhoods and I heard it ALOT there.

The area is used to burglaries. It’s part and parcel to a neighborhood with so much rental and density. The occasional burglar who will walk in an unlocked door and pretend to be at the wrong address, apologize, and leave. What the community is concerned about is the fact that there appears to be a group of people who have escalated from breaking in to unoccupied homes to intentionally confronting residents with weapons.

While the news may be getting it wrong, and OSU hasn’t seemed to have reacted (though not sure they have much of a responsibility to do so so far off campus) CPD has been great, from what I can tell, about their response to the community. Response times are almost instant and they have been putting a lot of resources from what we’ve been told into this concerning crime wave.