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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)

 

 

Numbers.........

 

The Number of Officers in the City are down to 883. At one time, we had 1047.

 

Calls for Service are up by 4000 for the first four months of the year  for the same time period last year and 15,000 more than in  2012.

 

Self-Initiated calls are down 12,000 for the first four months of the year for the same time period last year.

 

 

13

 

 

This month, 12 Officers have retired from the department.

Another officer resigned to help take care of family. 

 

 

 

Pursuits: 2014 Stats

 

 

For the City:

Average pursuit length:  2 minutes and 20 seconds

Times pursuits occurred: 11 PM to 3 AM.

Days most likely to have a pursuit: Tuesday, then Wednesday and Thursday.
(almost twice as many than during the weekend.)

70 percent of pursuits awere traffic related.
(As opposed to driving a stolen car, robbery, DUII, etc.)

37 percent were terminated.

 

 

Ill Tidings

 

For May, the city had a record number of shootings for the month at twenty-five.