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jack
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 Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:56 pm Post subject: Recent crime rate data |
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Attached, a summary of crime rates in Mount Pleasant for the first five months of 2006, prepared for the PSA meeting this evening. Observations:
*Robberies are up. Most robberies in Mount Pleasant take place between 16th and 17th Streets.
*The robbery rate (expressed as reported robberies per 1000 population per month) remains well below the District average, and far below the rate observed in Columbia Heights (PSA 302).
*Thefts from auto are up. The rate is not as bad as it was in late 2002, but it's high, almost one reported theft per day.
*Thefts (other than from auto) are up. People are stealing stuff off porches, bicycles and mail.
* Auto thefts, for a change, are down.
-- Jack
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jack
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| Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:30 am Post subject: Re: Recent crime rate data |
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| jack wrote: | | Attached, a summary of crime rates in Mount Pleasant for the first five months of 2006, prepared for the PSA meeting this evening. -- Jack |
At the PSA meeting, Marika Torok said that calls to the MPD concerning two recent incidents in Mount Pleasant, one of an altercation between drunks on Mount Pleasant Street, the other a man committing indecent acts in an alley off 18th Street, yielded very poor response times, on the order of 40 minutes. Furthermore, calls to LiveLink are not being answered. It seems that Mount Pleasant is being left without police on call, much less on the street.
Captain Scott said that 3D was suffering from a massive overload of calls for service, so the officers were simply elsewhere. This problem is compounded by the usual matter of officers being off on sick leave, away for mandatory training, or in court, waiting to testify in trials.
Mount Pleasant has the lowest crime rate in the Third District. That's nice for us, but this results also in the police being sucked away to the higher-crime neighborhoods. I observed that yes, Mount Pleasant has a low crime rate, and we don't have much to complain about, but we cannot have our police coverage reduced to zero. At the least, police have to respond promptly to calls for service here.
Sergeant McLean had the role of "Lieutenant" for this meeting, Lt Vines being on vacation. We complained about the unfortunately rapid turnover of patrol officers, and of lieutenants (Vines is our fifth, in four years). Sgt McLean didn't know what "LiveLink" was, illustrating the problem: the turnover is so rapid that the new arrivals don't have a chance to come to know the neighborhood. The essence of "community policing" is the building of bonds between the officers and the people. Can't do that if the officers change every several months. Our new officers mean well, no doubt about it, and are trying to do a good job, but they don't know the community, and we don't want them to disappear as soon as they do come to know the community.
-- Jack
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