Please see ‘Norfolk police chief says targeted approach helped reduce crime rate in 2017’ at http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ODN/VirginianPilot/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=VIRGINIANPILOT%2F2018%2F01%2F12&entity=Ar00205&sk=41259598&mode=text

“We have some huge reductions,” Chief Larry Boone said in a recent interview.

“Last year was our safest year in 17 years,” he added Wednesday in a Norfolk Police Department news release.