JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Looking to address crime one door, and one step at a time – that\u2019s the mission of the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office\u2019s community crime walks. <\/p>\n
Saturday morning, Jacksonville Sheriff TK Waters and members of the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office completed their latest crime walk off of West Beaver Street and McDuff Avenue, just north of Jacksonville\u2019s Lackawanna area.<\/p>\n
Read: <\/b>\u2018Pack the Patrol Car\u2019 returns to support homeless students<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s no secret we\u2019ve had some violence over here,\u201d Sheriff Waters highlighted Saturday. \u201cWe wanna make sure that the folks in this neighborhood know that we are here and we\u2019re here to support everything that\u2019s going on in this community.\u201d<\/p>\n The walks serve as a chance for the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office to build trust with the community, helping its crime-solving abilities.<\/p>\n \u201cThe more we reach out and the more we answer the result, answer the issues that they bring to us, the more that they see us do that, the more trust that we earn and the more confidence that we earned and the more we hear from our community,\u201d Sheriff Waters explained.<\/p>\n >>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n However, while the neighborhood crime walks aim to improve JSO\u2019s ability to serve their communities, AJ Jordan – a leader with the anti-crime community organization MAD DADS – said Saturday it\u2019s also still on the residents to push the change they want to see.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not just the sheriff department. If you know these young men and young women are out here doing things, you got to make that call because we can curb it before it even happens,\u201d Jordan explained. \u201cSo I encourage the community to be proactive, not reactive.\u201d<\/p>\n Those looking to share concerns about crime in their community with police can also do so at the next Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office town hall event, scheduled for 6 p.m. on Tuesday at the First Coast Christian School on Blanding Boulevard.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Looking to address crime one door, and one step at a time – that\u2019s the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[7320,5229,7323,3188,723,7324,7310,7327,7325,7326,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,7322,7321],"class_list":{"0":"post-76416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-action-news-jax","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-cbs47","11":"tag-fl","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-fox30","14":"tag-jacksonville","15":"tag-jacksonville-fl","16":"tag-northeast-florida","17":"tag-southeast-georgia","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa","24":"tag-wfox","25":"tag-wjax"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114882163785343250","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}