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18

 

The city is up 18 traffic related deaths for the year. 

 

 

3/7/19

 

1) The department has hit the retirement cliff. With two consecutive 27 week pay periods in a row and with none in the near future, the mass hires of the early 1990's are retiring by the dozens. A few are opting for the retire - re-hire program allowing officers to double dip for the new few years.

2) Despite the city increasing the allotment of officers by 49 to a total of 1001 officers, there are less officers working than the year before. 

3)t takes an average of 340 days to hire an officer. 

4)The new hire wash-out rate is increasing from 10-15 percent to 25. I know some training officers with a 57 percent wash-out rate for their trainees.

5) Calls for service are up 22 percent in the last five years.

6) Priority call response times are have in increase by two minutes since 2012. 

 

Down

 

Traffic fatalities are down from 45 last year to 34 in 2018.

The deaths are lowest amount since 2014. 

 

 

32

 

There were 32 homicides in the city in 2018.

 

 

Traffic Fatalities

 

 

This year nine people have died in the traffic crashes in the city.

Six are pedestrian. Three are motorists. Five have died in the last two weeks. 

 

 

 

 

Per Roll Call

Per Roll Call,

The department's average response time to priority one and two calls is nine minutes.

In the last year, there has been  an 18 percent increase in calls for service.

Officers  have 12 percent of their shift not occupied by calls

Needles

 

In 2013, the company contracted to clean up

the 213 blocks of the downtown core removed

5600 needles from the sidewalks and streets.

In 2016, they removed 16,000.

In 2017, the cleaned up 30,000.

 

 

Car Theft

 

Per an appellate court ruling, the state has to prove

the defendant has to know the car was stolen

in order to prove the case. So, unless a suspect

admits he knew a car was stolen,

the theft cannot be successfully prosecuted.

As a result:

In 2016, there were 4900 cars stolen in the city
In 2017, there were 6500.

 

 

2017 Stats

 

In 2017 the City had 27 Homicides.

Last Year, there was 20.

 

In comparison, in 2017,

there were 51 traffic fatalities.

 

 

 

 

 

Auto Theft

 

 

Car is up 31 percent in the pond.

 

Top Five Stolen Cars in the city. 

 

1994 Honda Accord

1998 Honda Civic

1991 Toyota Camry

1996 Subaru Legacy

1999 Ford Pickup (full size)