OPD Weekly Update
10/09/2013 11:28
Hi,
The past week’s map:
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/OnePane/basicviewer/index.html?appid=ad6c7636e756431b9a87fa0b75517c17
Notable Trends:
- This week - eleven vehicle prowls, nine unsecured and five residential burglaries, all forced entry
Also, we had our monthly comprehensive meeting today:
- Current efforts –
- Continuing focus on auto theft activity – response by detectives has made a significant impact on Honda thefts on the Westside with the last one taken on 9/23
- Possible emerging residential burglary trend in SE (11 in the past month) – officers will be paying attention to problem houses and known criminals as well as increasing patrol
- Increase in felony assaults downtown – staff will be analyzing data and working with downtown groups to address the issue
- Three months ago, the trends were –
- Westside residential burglaries (numbers now down significantly after problem house and known criminals targeted)
- Main corridor commercial burglaries (numbers down, major criminal ring investigated resulting in multi-jurisdictional cases)
- Overall Part 1 crime 2013 total projections, in comparison to 2012
- Robbery – about the same
- Rape – down
- Aggravated Assaults – about the same
- Residential Burglaries – down
- Commercial Burglaries – about the same
- Auto Thefts – up (on track to be the highest since 2008)
- Vehicle Prowls – down
One of the reasons I share this information is to encourage practicing basic crime prevention and reporting of suspicious people/circumstances. Without information from citizens, we wouldn’t be able to identify crime trends accurately or have knowledge about problem locations. When a trend is stopped, credit also goes the residents for doing their part to deter crime.
Amy
Amy Stull
Senior Program Specialist
Police Community Programs
Olympia Police Department
(360) 753-8049