Taking Precautions
While Roland Park is generally considered a safe place to live, work and play, it is not entirely immune from the problems of the modern world. Violent crime is unusual in Roland Park, but nuisance crime is not unheard of. Please exercise common sense.
- Do lock doors and windows when you go out.
- Do cut back hedges and shrubs near your first-floor windows.
- Do leave your porch light on at night.
- Do have your mail held for you at the post office while you are on vacation.
- Do have the newspaper company halt delivery while you are away.
- Do have an anti-theft device in your car.
- Do lock your car doors, day and night.
- Do lock your shed and garage.
- Do consider jogging/walking with a companion, if you are a late-night jogger or dog walker.
- Don't leave valuables on your porch or deck.
- Don't leave valuables on first-floor window sills or tables immediately under window sills in your house.
- Don't permit the postal service or delivery services to leave packages on your porch if no one is in to sign for them.
- Don't take a wallet with you if you go jogging or walking after dark, if you must go alone.
- Don't let small children play for long out of your eyesight or earshot.
For other safety tips, visit the "your community" section of the Baltimore City Police Department's web site: http://www.baltimorepolice.org.
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For information on ways you can get involved and help, visit the subpage of the Civic League's Crime & Public Safety Committee by clicking here.
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Crime Maps
For a regularly updated interactive map showing types of crime in Roland Park, and the place of the commission of each crime, click here.
Alternatively, you may view the Baltimore Police Department's local crime map by clicking here.
For an interactive map showing crime at the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus and environs, click here.
The linked maps are not part of the RolandPark.org web site, and the Roland Park participating organizations cannot vouch for their accuracy or their timeliness, and accept no responsibility for same.
If you like the Roland Park and Hopkins campus crime maps, you may sign up for free e-mailed crime alerts from the same provider. The sign-up box is in the top right corner of the web page for each.
Crime Updates
- 8/9/08: Larceny from "other premise," 5500 block of Springlake Way.
- 8/9/08: Larceny from "other premise," 200 block of E. Highfield Road.
- 8/8/08: Theft from car, 200 block of Club Road.
- 8/7/08: Auto theft, intersection of Overhill Road and W. University Parkway.
- 8/7/08: Burglary and forced entry, 300 block of Tunbridge Road.
- 8/6/08: Larceny from store (shoplifting), 4600 block of Falls Road.
- 8/5/08: Theft from car, 200 block of Oakdale Road.
- 8/5/08: Burglary and forced entry, 100 block of Cotswold Road.
- 8/4/08: Burglary and forced entry, 4200 block of St. Paul Street.
- 8/2/08: Burglary, 4600 block of Roland Avenue.
- 8/2/08: Theft from car, 4600 block of Kernwood Avenue.
- 7/31/08: Break-in/burglary, Cloverhill Road. Two men climbed in a second-floor window using a ladder and told homeowner to stay in room while they looked around. They took $20 and left.
- 7/29/08: Theft from car, 4200 block of Wickford Road.
- 7/28/08: Armed highway robbery (on street), with firearm, 4400 block of Roland Spring Drive.
- 7/28/08: Burglary and forced entry, 500 block of Edgevale Road.
- 7/26/08: Larceny from building, 5000 block of Lawndale Avenue.
- 7/26/08: Burglary from drug store, 4600 block of Falls Road.
- 7/25/08: Theft from car, 4400 block of Sedgwick Road.
- 7/24/08: Larceny from house, 4300 block of Roland Avenue.
- 7/23/08: Theft from car, 4500 block of N. Charles Street (Loyola College).
- 7/23/08: Armed robbery, 1 p.m., 5200 block of Roland Avenue. Woman about to enter M&T Bank was accosted by a man with a shotgun, who took her purse and fled in a getaway vehicle with two other men in it. Two of the suspects later arrested.
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