Druid Hills Civic Association - Neighborhood Safety

SERVING THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF DRUID HILLS

A COMMUNITY NESTLED IN THE HEART OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA

NEIGHBORHOOD SAFETY

The Druid Hills Public Safety Committee is chaired by Doug Rollins. We are working on multiple approaches to addressing crime within our community. Please send any neighborhood public safety concerns to: publicsafety@druidhills.org.

Neighborhood Watch

We believe that neighbors who know each other look out for each other, and that is our most effective method of deterring crime. With Neighborhood Watch, neighbors keep an eye out for one another. To make this work we need street captains (and co-captains for the longer streets). To date, we have 45 street captains!

Street captain responsibilities:

Maintain a contact list for every house on the street and share it with everyone on the list.
Forward monthly crime reports to your list. (It will be sent to you by the Druid Hills Neighborhood Watch Leader, Ellen Meshnick.)
If a crime does occurs, the victim must call the police. Then either email your neighbors or tell the street captain, who will do so.

Note that you don’t have to belong to the Druid Hills Civic Association nor the Druid Hills Patrol. (However, we encourage you to join both. If everyone joins the Patrol, it can extend its hours and its patrol area.)

Join the team!

Public Safety Committee, Doug Rollins, publicsafety@druidhills.org

Neighborhood Watch Leader, Ellen Meshnick, neighborhoodwatch@druidhills.org

The mission of the Druid Hills Patrol is to make Druid Hills safer by employing off-duty police officers to patrol our community and supplement services provided by the police. It is a separate organization from the DHCA. It is a non-profit organization, funded by members and managed by volunteers. The DHCA encourages all neighbors to join. The more members, the more hours can be spent patrolling the neighborhood! Join the patrol today!

PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY

Don't leave anything in your car. Even things that might seem like they aren't of value, may be desirable to someone else! Believe it or not, loose change can be the reason for a broken window.

Please remember to retrieve packages from your doorstep as soon as they are delivered.

Coordinate package security with neighbors by exchanging contact information and agreeing to either move packages to a secure location or take them inside for each other.

Remove mail from your mailbox as soon as possible after delivery.

Report ALL thefts.

Be a good neighbor and keep an eye out for anything unusual.

SEEN DOWNED SIGNS/STREET LIGHTS OUT?

Report street light outages here.

Report downed signs in DeKalb County by emailing Sharon Neal.

MONTHLY CRIME REPORT

Druid Hills Crime Report : June 2021 : 18 total crimes
In DeKalb County : 17 crimes
Case #	Type of Crime	Address	Date	Day	Likely comm’l or resident’l complex
21- 052711	Larceny. Resident accused her healthcare workers and her gardener of stealing items from her.	800 block Clifton Rd	6/30/2021 @ 4:46 pm	Wed
21- 051788	False pretense/swindle. Victim said checks he mailed from a post office mailbox had been stolen and fraudulently cashed.	1600 block N Decatur Rd	6/29/2021 @ 11:00 am	Tues	√
21- 050000	Burglary/breaking and entering, Victim reported his residence had been burglarized while he was gone for the day. No signs of forced entry.	1400 block Oxford Rd	6/24/2021 @ 10:30 pm	Thurs	√
21- 049826	Simple assault. Victim was standing outside Frazer Center and was approached by an angry parent and cussed out about not being able to pick up child without a car seat.	1800 block S Ponce de Leon Ave	6/23/2021 @ 4:50 pm	Wed
21- 047563	Larceny. Unknown suspect removed tools from victim’s International Bucket Truck.	1100 block Oxford Rd	6/16/2021 @ 8:00 am	Wed
21- 047245	Simple assault. Domestic altercation between boyfriend and girlfriend.	500 block Rock Springs Ct	6/16/2021 @ 4:00 am	Wed	√
21- 047143	Simple assault. Victim stated that while she was in her car at a Chevron Food Mart, the suspect jumped into her vehicle and tried to steal it.	2000 block N Decatur Rd	6/15/2021 @ 5:10 pm	Tues
21- 046187	Theft from motor vehicle	1400 block Oxford Rd.	6/12/2021 @ 8:30 pm	Sat	√
21- 045594	Theft from motor vehicle	1500 block N Decatur Rd	6/10/2021 @ 7:15 pm	Thurs	√
21- 045521	Theft from motor vehicle	1600 block Dyson Dr	6/9/2021 @ 7:30 pm	Wed
21- 045408	Theft from motor vehicle	1600 block Dyson Dr	6/9/2021 @ 5:00 pm	Wed
21- 046751	Larceny. Package delivered to friend’s residence was stolen from front porch.	400 block Burlington Rd	6/9/2021 @ 12:00 pm	Wed
21- 046312	Motor vehicle theft	1300 block Chalmette Dr	6/8/2021 @ 6:00 pm	Tues
21- 044446	Driving under the influence. (Unable to obtain information)	1500 block N Decatur Rd	6/7/2021 @ 1:53 am	Mon	√
21- 043584	Theft from motor vehicle	2000 block N. Decatur Rd.	6/3/2021 @ 8:00 pm	Thurs
21- 045526	Larceny. Tag stolen from vehicle and used on another vehicle that was involved in a crime in Cobb County.	300 block Rock Springs Ct	6/3/2021 @ 8:00 am	Thurs	√
21- 042998	Vandalism. Apartment resident who was locked out of apartment tried to get key from leasing office by kicking on the door.	500 block Rock Springs Ct	6/1/2021 @ 8:14 pm	Tues	√
In City of Atlanta: 1 crime
21 1561657	Auto theft	1200 Ponce de Leon Ave	6/5/2021	Sat	√
Compiled by E. Meshnick from crimemapping.com and opendata.atlantapd.org

PONCE CORRIDOR SAFETY

Ponce de Leon was designed as a part of the original Druid Hills plan by Frederick Law Olmsted to be a meandering, picturesque road showcasing the neighborhood. As Atlanta has grown (and so has the traffic!), it is a very dangerous corridor with frequent traffic accidents and incidents. It also has problems with flooding.

The GDOT has had several stakeholder input meetings as they try to address these issues while working within our neighborhood's historical landmark regulations. We maintain a special web page where we host updates about the "Ponce Corridor" here.

FLOCK Security Camera PILOT PROGRAM

FLOCK cameras were installed in Division 1 as part of a City of Atlanta grant beginning August 20, 2018.
Read about the DHCA Pilot Program

Important update on FLOCK contract (November 2020):

The DHCA wants to ensure all residents are aware of the expiration of the grant used to cover the first two years of our FLOCK camera system. Beginning in February of 2021, those living on Fairview, Lullwater, Oakdale and Springdale will need to pick up the contracting and payment process directly with FLOCK in order to maintain coverage. The current rate is $2,000 per camera/year or $4,000 to cover both ends of a street segment. The organizers of private FLOCK contracts on Cornell and Oxford tell us that the annual cost per resident varies from $88-$120 per year depending on the number of homes.

Read our analysis of FLOCK camera effectiveness.

DHCA SIDEWALK REPAIR PROGRAM

Sick and tired of our sidewalks?

Your DHCA is too!

And we want to do something about them! The first step towards any remediation of our abysmal sidewalks is to understand the size and scope of the problem.We can do this and we desperately need your help. Thanks to COVID 19, we’re all spending a lot more time walking, running, skating and riding up and down our streets.

Send me a quick email with a photo of the worst of the worst. Take a picture, note the specific address of the sidewalk and the side of the street if possible. We believe that neighbors who know each other look out for each other, and that is our most effective method of deterring crime. To that end, we’re going to create an inventory of our sidewalks that we can use to inform fact-based discussions with stakeholders including DeKalb County.

Send your sidewalk pics (with address) to publicsafety@druidhills.org. Spread the word to your friends and neighbors. #safewalk

CONTACT US

DRUID HILLS CIVIC ASSOCIATION
P.O. Box 363, Decatur, GA 30031

mail@druidhills.org
druidhills.org