The News Sentinel has been asking how we can better serve our readers, like you.
We found out one of your big concerns is learning about crime in your neighborhood.
You want to know if someone has been burglarizing homes or stealing cars on your street. Is there a drug problem in your subdivision or a really bad intersection for accidents?
To help inform you, today we launch Watchful Eye on Crime on our knoxnews.com website. Monday through Friday on the site we will plot particular types of crime on a Knox County map over the previous seven days. On Mondays, we look at violent crimes including homicides and assaults. Tuesday the focus is robberies, Wednesday burglaries, Thursday drugs and alcohol, and Friday traffic.
We’ll point out problem areas, look for unusual occurrences and give you a better idea what’s going on in your part of the county.
As always we look forward to your suggestions and recommendations on how to better inform you. Send comments to news[at]knoxnews.com
Watchful Eye on Violent Crimes
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As part of our Watchful Eye initiative to keep readers better informed about crime in their areas of town, the News Sentinel is launching this web presentation. Each week day we will look at a specific type of crime for Knoxville/Knox County throughout the previous seven days. On Mondays, we look at violent crimes including homicides and assaults. Tuesday the focus is robberies, Wednesday burglaries, Thursday drugs and alcohol, and Friday traffic.
Watchful Eye's look at Violent Crimes for June 17-24 shows that it must be summer as violent crimes, mainly assaults, are up throughout the county from the previous week. A tight concentration on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard around Five Points is nothing new, but sprinklings around Cedar Bluff Road west and in Powell around Clinton Highway-Emory Road are a little unusual.
It's important to note that markers are placed by blocks and the structures on which they happen to fall are not the exact locations where the incidents occurred.
Follow KNS Watchful Eye on twitter at @knswatchfuleye.
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Comments » 14
slugdiamond (Inactive) writes:
"A tight concentration on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard around Five Points is nothing new"
3...2...1...
itsalwaysaboutthemoney writes:
That is so unfair. Every one knows that North Knoxville is the new ghetto.
knoxtaxpayer1 writes:
,,,,,and yes !, the cops are working very hard to reduce these cimes !, now lets get some coffee,crime fighting is hard, just ask batman and robin,,,,,,,,,,,
realcitizen writes:
It seems the 2 stabbings that happened at the Broadway Kroger shopping center during those dates isn't posted.
brian#367084 writes:
Why don't you just put them all on one contstantly updated map with different colored pins for different classifications of crimes? It's ridiculous to havea 'daily special' for crime reporting, unless the obvious goal is to get more hits/traffic by limiting the information available on any given day.
LoudonHopper writes:
The folks in some of those historic districts 'round those parts could buy your family out 5x over.
LoudonHopper writes:
There is a scene in Knocked Up making fun of one of the main characters for obsessing over a similar map that is soooo appropriate of a description for people who stare at these things constantly.
itsalwaysaboutthemoney writes:
...and your point is?
preoccupied2 writes:
Or you could go to raidsonline.com, a free service of KPD, and get these stats on a map realtime.
mikeford66 writes:
Bet most of these people have NO JOB and getting welfare.
stude54 writes:
In the West vs East talk always going on here, it appears that the West won this time period and buy a good margain!
Smooth_as_Eggs writes:
Ding, ding, ding! What do we have for him, Johnny?
preoccupied2 writes:
If you go to the sight the police department offers you can see different pins for different crimes. Don't waste your time with this KNS stuff.
Caneoverthere writes:
Great feature - thank you KNS!
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