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income families, and we’re
just a community.”
When presented with
the crime statistics, Byrnes
responded, “No way man.
Not my home. Life’s easy
out here.”
Even Will Johnson, a
geography who had
a generator stolen off the
porch of his Highland Park
home earlier this year, said
the area is “pretty quiet.”
When asked about
crime, Johnson simply said,
“I haven’t noticed any.”
However, Highland Park
Drive has been labeled a
“hot spot” for crime and
receives extra police atten
tion as a result, said
Athens-Clarke County Maj.
Carter Greene.
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“We don’t have the man
power for someone to be
there all the time,” Greene
said. “It was a hot spot for
a while, so we put more
[officers] out there. It will
slow down for a while once
we get the right people
locked up.”
Rico Holt, a four-year
Highland Park resident,
said he has noticed the
increased police presence.
“It’s a good thing
though,” he said. “Cause I
know they had a lot of
break-ins over on that end
a couple years ago when I
first got here... I don’t feel
safe here but it hasn’t hap
pened yet.”
Greene said Highland
Park is not alone in dealing
with a high number of
property crimes. Instead, it
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problem area.
“Residential burglaries
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country,” he said. “We’ve
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ty crimes up and down
Cedar Shoals.”
Despite these crime
issues, Highland Park
Drive’s quiet, suburban
appearance has lulled
many residents into a false
sense of security.
University Police Chief
Jimmy Williamson said stu
dents all to often fail to
understand the possibility
of crime in their neighbor
hoods.
“I would tell people to
never assume where you
live is perfectly safe,” he
said. “People can’t always
judge by how it appears. I
would encourage you to
look around, not just your
house, but also canvas the
area before moving in. Too
often people get tunnel
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vision and look just at the
house and not what’s going
on around it.”
Police are able to
respond to crimes after
they occur, but they can’t
force residents to take pre
cautions.
Greene said it’s the res
idents’ job to take mea
sures to help prevent
crimes from happening
the residents must take
responsibility for their own
safety.
Among other things,
Greene suggested resi
dents could be active in
setting up neighborhood
watches, getting to know
the neighbors, locking
doors and installing alarm
systems.
“It takes a combined
effort of all these things in
order to help us be suc
cessful in keeping crime
from happening in the first
place,” he said.
NO. 1 PARTY
SCHOOL
Weekend
arrest
numbers
spike
BY JACOB DEMMITT
The Red & Black
As the 2010 Georgia
football season got
underway Saturday,
University and Athens-
Clarke County Police
were busy locking up 33
individuals on drug and
alcohol related charges.
Five weeks have now
passed since Georgia
was named the No. 1
party school in the
nation, and the arrest
numbers continue to
remain high.
Although the stops
that led to many of these
arrests seemed deserved,
others appeared to be
more random.
Lauren Danielle
Tharp, 20, told The Red
& Black she was stopped
early Saturday morning
simply for being
“unlucky.”
“Me and my boyfriend
were going into Little
Italy,” she said. “We
didn’t do anything. [The
arresting officers] were
just like, ‘You two, stop.’
I didn’t stumble, didn’t
fall. I didn’t even know
what I got arrested for
until about five hours
later.”
The ACC police report
listed the reason for the
stop as Tharp “stagger
ing on the sidewalk.”
Saturday’s arrest
surge is just the most
recent episode in what
has already been a school
year of high police activ
ity.
After The Princeton
Review crowned Georgia
the No. 1 party school in
nation on Aug. 2,
University Police Chief
Jimmy Williamson told
The Red & Black it
would not affect the way
police enforced the law.
Still, in the two weeks
after receiving the title,
University Police report
ed 23 drug and alcohol
related arrests were
made. This was up from
15 during the same time
period in 2009.
The numbers spiked
again after classes began,
with 34 arrests in only
three days.
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Police Documents
CRIME
NOTEBOOK
Off-road DUI
No one likes to hear you
talk behind their backs,
especially police officers.
Gregg Ryan Coyle, 25,
who is listed as a student
assistant for the
University’s recreation
sports department, was
arrested and charged with
DUI and disorderly con
duct Sunday.
According to the
Athens-Clarke County
Police report, he was
arrested after getting in a
“physical confrontation”
with a property owner
regarding trespassing.
Coyle told officers he
had been drinking and was
driving his four wheel ATV
through the property to
get to a nearby river.
Since the owner did not
wish to press charges, offi
cers told Coyle not to ride
in his intoxicated state.
As the arresting officer
left, he heard yelling and
saw “Coyle driving the
ATV up the hill past the
creek,” according to the
report.
The officer then report
ed hearing Coyle say a
series of insults and exple
tives directed at the officer.
Coyle was breathalyzed
and registered a .120.
> Coyle was then arrested
and transported to Clarke
County Jail.
While in route, he con
tinued to argue and said
the officers “should be
arresting rapists and crack
dealers instead of him,”
according to the report.
Compiled by Jacob
Demmitt