Welcome Officer Michael Swim and Officer B.J. Cassidy

Let’s hear it for the City of Atlantic Beach and Capt. Mike Classey for giving the Mayport Corridor 2 officers to bring back small town policing. Officer's Swims and Cassidy are going to do some serious foot work to get to know us. They are going to help improve our relationship with the police and get out meet us. The two officers will be patrol on foot and bicycle to make them selves more visible to us. Swims and Cassidy will be patrolling mainly on the weekends and early evenings to meet us and also talk about any problems we are having the area. So if you see them out and about feel free to flag them down and kindly introduce yourself to them. They should be starting their patrol in Mid-August.

I would like to personally welcome Officer Michael Swim and Officer B.J. Cassidy to your new positions and we will be seeing you around.

Lets Stand up For our Neighborhood

Over the years, we have had a horrible relationship with the Atlantic Beach officials. As you all know up until the most recent years we were simply the eyesore of AB. Now we are gaining attention, and in a positive way. The City of AB has employed a representative for the Mayport Corridor, Dale Hatfield, who is going to help up get the attention we need. They are taking the right steps towards improving our communications with the city and police. But it is our job to make sure that they are not going to do this until things settle down and we quiet down. We need to make sure that this becomes years of an on going program. This Blog is a way for all of us to let each other know about the issues in our neighborhoods. I personally know how hard it is to make it to the city meetings and/or the neighborhood meetings, hopefully this will help all of us to stay informed as to the happenings on OUR side of town. Just remember one thing, when we point our fingers in a negative way towards our officials, it is a natural response to block out negativity. We need to prove that we are here because we love this neighborhood and are a part of this great city of Atlantic Beach. We also need to take steps to get rid of the crime and make sure we all are informed about the issues. We can take back our neighborhood it will just take the assistance of all of us to do it.