[misterrob]

Reading Is Fundamental:

According to police, the officers had been in the neighborhood since about 2:45 p.m., and had made five drug-related arrests.

[org.whodat]

the officers had been in the neighborhood since about 2:45 p.m.

How many square miles in a neighborhood?? Does that mean they had been a mile away , two miles away, a half mile away. Had been in neighborhood is a meaningless statement.