The city of Norfolk is ramping up compliance visits to downtown bars and nightclubs, as well as securing and will aim to appropriate funding to staff a compliance unit and upgrade surveillance in parking garages, in response to the most recent Granby Street shooting.
Norfolk city leaders are pushing for ways to fight crime downtown after five people were shot, and two of them were killed over the weekend outside a popular nightspot. The city is moving forward with a violence intervention team out of New Jersey.