Editing Lincoln Heights, Ohio (section)

==Crime==
[[Illegal drug]] distribution activity occurred in Lincoln Heights in the 2000s,<ref name=VelaSavor/> and the 2010s. In 2014 Lincoln Heights Chief of Police Conroy Chance stated that the most common illegal drugs were [[crack cocaine]] and [[marijuana]] prior to 2012, but the preferred drugs shifted to [[heroin]] that year.<ref name=Marottivexes/>

In 2010 Quan Truong and Jennifer Baker of ''[[The Cincinnati Enquirer]]'' stated that Lincoln Heights had a history of violent crime, one that "plagues" Lincoln Heights.<ref name=Attackofficer>Truong, Quan and Jennifer Baker. "[http://archive.cincinnati.com/article/20100916/NEWS010701/309160023/Gunmen-attack-officer-Lincoln-Heights Gunmen attack officer in Lincoln Heights]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20150715023442/http://archive.cincinnati.com/article/20100916/NEWS010701/309160023/Gunmen-attack-officer-Lincoln-Heights Archive]). ''[[The Cincinnati Enquirer]]'' (cincinnati.com). September 16, 2010. Retrieved on July 15, 2015.</ref> Circa the 2010s typically Lincoln Heights experienced about one or two shootings each year.<ref name=Marottivexes/> In 1993 and 2001 there were incidents of Lincoln Heights police cars being set on fire. A man broke into the Lincoln Heights police station on fire in 1998, causing about $100,000 in damages. Persons shot the windows of the village hall and shot at police cars during the same evening.<ref name=Attackofficer/> In June 2001 authorities accused 33-year-old Stan Fitzpatrick of murdering community activist Elton "Arybie" Rose after killing Fitzpatrick's girlfriend and the girlfriend's daughter.<ref name=VelaSavor/> In the summer of 2010 a man fired bullets at [[Sharonville, Ohio|Sharonville]] police officer who was chasing two suspects while in Lincoln Heights. In September 2010 men with semiautomatic weapons shot at a [[Woodlawn, Ohio|Woodlawn]] police car.<ref name=Attackofficer/> In 2012 there were four shootings, with one of them being a homicide, and in 2013 there were nine shootings, with four of them being homicides. In May 2014 a joint task force made up of the [[Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation]], the county sheriff's department, the [[Cincinnati Police Department]], and the Woodlawn Police Department was established to reduce violence stemming from illegal drug issues.<ref name=Marottivexes/>

In 2014, Chance stated that due to the nature of crime in Lincoln Heights, "we police the way that big city polices."<ref name=Marottivexes/> Since then the Lincoln Heights police department had been disbanded.<!--See "Government and infrastructure" section for information on this-->