The 2010 data in the Police Department's Incident Based Reporting System as of Jan. 29, 2011 report 2407 separate vice offenses for the calendar year. Just over 94% of those offenses involved drugs or drug equipment:
| DRUG EQUIPMENT VIOLATIONS | 134 | 5.6% |
| DRUG/ NARCOTIC VIOLATION | 2135 | 88.7% |
| GAMBLING | 4 | 0.2% |
| PORNOGRAPHY | 15 | 0.6% |
| PROSTITUTION | 110 | 4.6% |
| Assist PROSTITUTION | 9 | 0.4% |
(Actually, one of the 2135 drug incidents was labeled "Drug/Narcotic Violations." I give up as to the difference between Drug/Narcotic Violation and Drug/Narcotic Violations.)
The total is down slightly from the previous year and pretty much in line with the previous four years.
The % cleared by arrest continues to decline.
Here are the top fifteen blocks (those with 13 or more offenses reported) for total vice in 2010:
| Block | Total | Drug | What's There |
| 6300 Block MIDLOTHIAN TPKE | 35 | 34 | Commercial. Motel? |
| 1300 Block COALTER ST | 28 | 28 | RRHA |
| 200 Block E BROAD ST | 24 | 24 | Commercial |
| 4600 Block JEFFERSON DAVIS HWY | 23 | 20 | Commercial. Motel? |
| 3100 Block ENSLOW AVE | 21 | 21 | Residential |
| 1600 Block ROSECREST AVE | 17 | 17 | RRHA |
| 1100 Block ST JOHN ST | 17 | 17 | RRHA |
| 1500 Block SHERWOOD AVE | 16 | 16 | Commercial. Motel? |
| 000 Block E 30TH ST | 16 | 16 | Residential |
| 1200 Block ST JAMES ST | 15 | 15 | RRHA |
| 5000 Block SNEAD ROAD | 13 | 13 | Apartments |
| 4300 Block JEFFERSON DAVIS HWY | 13 | 4 | Commercial. Motel? |
| 3600 Block E BROAD ROCK ROAD | 13 | 13 | Apartments |
| 2000 Block N 29TH ST | 13 | 13 | RRHA |
| 2000 Block CREIGHTON ROAD | 13 | 13 | RRHA |
Essentially all that activity is drugs, except for some prostitution reports in the 4300 Jeff Davis block, perhaps at the motel.
As usual, we see that rental properties, notably RRHA, apartments, and motels, are at the center of the problem.
The really Bad News is the ongoing problem at RRHA, which is by far the largest public nuisance in the City.
Overall, these data show the vice activity in Richmond to be concentrated at identifiable places, almost always associated with rental property. State law declares this activity to be a nuisance and provides abundant criminal and civil authority to abate it.
Indeed, nuisance abatement (generally directed at the property owner) is the sole strategy that can be shown scientifically to control drug dealing and related crime at private rental places.[1]
As these pages also discuss elsewhere, RRHA is maintaining the largest drug nuisance in the City.
The RRHA Commissioners have demonstrated that they are unwilling or unable to properly run the organization. It is long past time for a housecleaning at RRHA.
[1] A 1998 National Institute of Justice report to Congress discusses the place-bound nature of crime as follows: “Most places have no crimes and most crime is highly concentrated in and around a relatively small number of places. If we can prevent crime at these high crime places, then we might be able to reduce total crime. [The] findings suggest that something about a few places facilitates crimes and something about most places prevents crimes.” Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn’t, What’s Promising, http://www.ncjrs.org/works/chapter7.htm. Of course, the something about most property that prevents crimes is an owner (and neighbors) who will not tolerate disorder. In my view, the focus of community policing should be to encourage and assist the law-abiding landowners and to target the others.