On a sultry summer day, Sheridan Glen has the interior of his BMW cool as his pulls out of the parking lot of his home in the 4th Ward Lofts. A Madison resident for eight years, Glen has immersed himself in the historical fabric of one of Madison’s oldest neighborhoods on the isthmus.
….As the (Brittany) Zimmerman homicide illustrates, the neighborhood, despite its recent developments and new residents, is not immune from violence and criminal activities. Roughly 500 major crimes, including rape, murder, burglary, theft and aggravated assault, have been committed in the neighborhood over the past five years, according to Madison Police Department records. The numbers, though, have declined slightly each of the past five years.
Capt. Mary Schauf of the Madison Police Department’s Central District says major crimes have stabilized as the result of acute attention paid to the area in recent years.