Saturday, March 14, 2009

Crime Continues to Go Down in the Village

Our latest crime statistics are in, and they show that our "total crime index" is down by 3.4%. The Peoria Heights Police Department, under the leadership of Chief Dustin Sutton, continues to excel in its realm of expertise. Every area of crime was down this past year in relation to 2007, except in aggravated assault, which went from 25 cases to 32; theft, which went from 128 cases to 135; and arson, which went from 1 case to 2.

In every other area of crime (criminal sexual assault, robbery, burglary, motor vehicle theft), our rates went down, and dramatically so.

Drug arrests went up by 23.3%. Bear in mind, most of these arrests come from people who don't even live in Peoria Heights, but they get arrested while in the Village. The police dog, Achilles, helped in another arrest just the other day, and that incident was in the paper this morning. Achilles has been paying big dividends already in our war on drugs.

All in all, a fine job by the police department.

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