Police: No arrests in Chesapeake disturbance

WOW all these comments must have gotten the attention of the 2nd pct they have been chasing speeders on Poindexster all day.....meanwhile drug sales on Ohio as usual

to clean up South Norfolk area of the city. It will take the citizens too. Also if you drive 300 feet in Norfolk and you will see the lovely Diggs Park (?) area. Criminals do stay in one area. Norfolk has to do their part too. Right now SoNo is just under a microscope because of all the press from the recent incidents. People will soon forget in about 2 months.

Used to be a nice place to live and raise a family. When I was 12, I had a paper route in that area. It was safe to walk the streets! This is the only place in Chesapeake with affordable homes. It is the City`s own fault for the condition of South Norfolk. This area has been neglected since its merger back in 64. The slum landlords and rental property have taken over. Hey City, have your own inspectors ride by these eye sores, and start handing out code violations to these slum landlords! The City seems to think that building high dollar Condos will solve the problem. Yea right! This will never happen, until this City makes an effort to clean up what is there NOW! Only one arrest made? Have Marshall law, no one on the streets after dark? Development, Development, Development! I get sick and tired of our City leaders crying about more development! This won`t resolve anything other than making a developer rich. This all sounds like Bovine Defecation to me!

Call it what it is. If quacks and walks like a duck, it may very well be a duck. Bottomline is that more and more gang activity has moved into the area. We have lived there now a little over a year, one street over from this mess, and the police were called Saturday night because the drug dealer and his transient girlfriend next door were in a domestic dispute in the middle of the street at 12:45 a.m. At 2:22 we were awakened by gunfire. My husband and I are both Marines so we know what a weapon sounds like when it goes off and these were not firecrackers. The very bunch of deadbeats that started this mess Monday night are the same bunch who stand in the middle of Ohio Street and will not let the cars pass through even though there are sidewalks to walk on. You have to wait until they decide they want to get out of the way - they try to intimidate with fear and their attitude of entitlement. There are nice folks, ones who have lived there for years and young families buying their first homes, who are law abiding and hard working folks, but they are being pushed out to make room for this kind of behavior.

Yeah...streetlights....that'll fix it...nevermind the gangs, drugs and Socioeconomic hurdles that exist in South Norfolk. City Council doesn't care about the citizens and even less about the employees whose duty it is to protect these areas. Council has already demonstrated the fact they are willing do whatever it takes to secure their own political future.

What they really need is to stop turning everything into section 8 housing. Spruce up the areas and tear down all those condemended houses and that will stop all the rif faf from coming into South Norfolk...I have been there all my life and never has it been this bad....We are a joke around the area and it's all our fault for electing people who don't care. Their focus is in their own back yard VIA (Great Bridge, Western Branch or Indian River), I think it sad to let and area go to hell like that, there is alot of History in South Norfolk but things like that you never hear about. So go right ahead a build that nice new building that is in the works, meanwhile the rest of South Norfolk is falling by the wayside and it's just sad to me that we have no representitives who care....

Can you imagine how insulted residents of South Norfolk were, when City Council members came to their neighborhood under armed security? It makes it seem as though, council members were scared or afraid to go into the area without police escort. Stop spending money on pet projects and clean up the crime in this area. These citizens deserve better leadership, than what we are seeing. Pay officers what they should be paid, instead of using that money for non essential projects. A city is only as good as its infrastructure, and thanks to the rate of development & growth allowed by our present council, our infrastructure is weak, and is not keeping pace with our population growth. CLEAN SWEEP CITY HALL. A new direction, that is focused on citizen concerns and quality of life is needed. We the people can make that happen. Come out and vote. May 6, 2008.

ditto on the lights! And look at this -- When police units arrived around 6:30, however, the crowd of about 20 to 30 people began to disperse -- seems like all it would take is the presence of more police officers other than when they're called. South Norfolk needs armed [law abiding] babysitters! Nix the lights and pay the police what would be spent on street lights.

You're getting more streetlights!!!