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Here’s how you can share your concerns about crime with the city’s top cop

NEWPORT NEWS — The police department is organizing three neighborhood meetings – one in each district.

Officers are looking for input on how they can better serve the city and are asking the community “to help in establishing a partnership that fosters safety and security where you live and play,” police said in a news release.

Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew will be at the meetings:

South community meeting: Aug. 20 from 5-7 p.m. at the Piggly Wiggly Community Room (3101 Jefferson Ave.)

Central community meeting: Aug. 29 at 6:30 p.m. at First Baptist Church (12716 Warwick Blvd.)

North community meeting: Aug. 30 at 7 p.m. at New Beech Grove Baptist Church (361 Beechmont Drive)

John Mangalonzo
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John Mangalonzo ([email protected]) is the managing editor of Local Voice Media’s Virginia papers – WYDaily (Williamsburg), Southside Daily (Virginia Beach) and HNNDaily (Hampton-Newport News). Before coming to Local Voice, John was the senior content editor of The Bellingham Herald, a McClatchy newspaper in Washington state. Previously, he served as city editor/content strategist for USA Today Network newsrooms in St. George and Cedar City, Utah. John started his professional journalism career shortly after graduating from Lyceum of The Philippines University in 1990. As a rookie reporter for a national newspaper in Manila that year, John was assigned to cover four of the most dangerous cities in Metro Manila. Later that year, John was transferred to cover the Philippine National Police and Armed Forces of the Philippines. He spent the latter part of 1990 to early 1992 embedded with troopers in the southern Philippines as they fought with communist rebels and Muslim extremists. His U.S. journalism career includes reporting and editing stints for newspapers and other media outlets in New York City, California, Texas, Iowa, Utah, Colorado and Washington state.

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