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Published: October 19, 2009 12:30 am
NIAGARA FALLS: Crime down slightly in ’09
Police hope slight decline continues for remainder of the year
Niagara Gazette
Crime is down in Niagara Falls during the first eight months of 2009.
But not by much.
In the words of Falls police Superintendent John Chella, Cataract City cops have been on a “roller coaster ride” in fighting crime this year. The city’s top cop says everything from falling copper prices to the release and arrest of various criminals has impacted the efforts of police.
“In 2008, copper thefts killed us,” Chella said. “But car break-ins were down because a lot of our perpetrators were in jail. This year, copper went down in price and the perps got out and we got slammed with car break-ins. There’s always a situation you gotta deal with.”
Crime statistics given to the state Department of Criminal Justice Services last week show that year to date, so-called Tier 1 crimes, are down .03 percent. Tier 1 crimes include murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny and motor vehicle theft.
Despite a better than 14 percent drop in robberies, overall violent crime is up so far this year, 2.6 percent. Rapes are up just over 6 percent, while violent assaults, many tied to domestic violence, have climbed better than 8 percent.
Overall property crimes are down 0.02 percent, led by an almost 34 percent drop in stolen cars. However, a dramatic spike in thefts from cars over the summer months has pushed larcenies up by 6.5 percent.
Thefts from cars appear to be spiking again, according to a look at recent police reports.
“In 2007, we had a great year and (overall) crime was down 7.5 percent,” Chella said. “In 2008, we were up 4 percent. We’re told the state 2007 was a year we can try to match, but we’ll take the difference between 2007 and 2008 to measure 2009. We’ve declined (through the end of August) and we’re confident September numbers (when they are available) we be even better.”
Chella said he has been most encouraged by declines in the numbers of robberies and burglaries, disappointed with higher numbers of assaults and thefts.
“I’m not painting a rosy picture,” he said, “We’ve got our challenges. We’re doing better but not as well as I hoped.”
Chella said targeted details that led to several arrests are having an impact on car break-ins and those numbers are coming down. He said he believed continued aggressive intervention in domestic violence cases would bring the number of assaults down as well.
Summing it all up Chella said, “We need to reduce the number of assaults, we need to continue the (recent) decline in auto break-ins.”
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