In case you missed this great Post article from Clarence Williams and Elissa Silverman this morning, be sure and read the whole thing. It’s the story of Simon Mahteme, owner of LeDroit Park Market, the center of a neighborhood struggling to improve itself in the face of continuing crime and violence. Mahteme’s store has been broken into ten times since October, and after this last incident, he had a customer help him place the security camera footage on YouTube. It’s not clear whether police actually used the video in their investigations, but an arrest has been made in the robbery, and apparently Police Chief Cathy Lanier has seen it.

The footage of the robbers is above. It’s encouraging to hear that neighborhoods like LeDroit Park are banding together to demand results from the MPD and find solutions to crime on the streets where they live. Stop by LeDroit Park Market, at 4th & T St NW, if you can and let Mahteme know you support his efforts to stay open despite all the damage and loss he’s suffered this year.