A New Bike Trail, Neighborhoods with the Most Guns Stolen from Cars, and Traffic Enforcement on Hull Street Road
Cheers RVA!
Today will be mostly sunny and windy, with a high of 48. The evening is expected to be cold with a low of 26.
the juice:
Richmond police have shared the most common neighborhoods where guns are stolen from vehicles, via WTVR.
Investigations into instances of gun theft from cars is up about 20% as compared to last year, with 602 instances so far this year.
The number of instances of firearms being stolen from vehicles between Sept 1 to Dec 8 are as follows:
Shockoe Bottom – 21
The Fan District – 12
Chamberlayne Industrial Center – 8
Diamond District – 7
Old Town Manchester – 7
Lt. James Hogan suggested places with an active nightlife contribute to the high number of gun thefts from cars.
the pulp:
Ground has been broken on a new pedestrian and bike path on Southside, from WRIC. The two-mile James River Branch Trail will run from Westover Hills boulevard to Hopkins Road. South Richmond News reported back in March that this location has been on the radar since 2008, including a Concept Plan from 2010.
Chesterfield County Police will conduct a traffic enforcement operation today on Hull Street Road, with a focus on the area between 288 and Courthouse Rd, via the RTD.
the dive:
David Cunningham, a sociology professor who studies the legacies of historical conflict, analyzes places where Confederate statues were removed and says Richmond has gotten it right, in a recent article in The Conversation.
Cunningham is visiting the 113 communities that removed or relocated Confederate statues between 2015 and 2023.
This year he visited the display of the toppled Jefferson Davis statue at the Valentine Museum.
He writes:
Moving the statue from its public perch on Monument Avenue and into a museum transformed it from a commemorative object glorifying its subject to a historical artifact. And presenting the statue in its prone and damaged state makes its removal the center of that historical story.
Indeed, this unscrubbed statue still allows viewers to consider why Davis was celebrated in the first place. But they can no longer avoid reckoning with those who refused to allow him to remain standing.
Read the full article here.
the vibe:
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