The Huntsville Police Department releases a report on crime in 2021 in Alabama's most populous city.
You will not find any of the murders committed in Huntsville last year on a revised version of Unsolved Mysteries on Netflix.
“We’re broken down into major crimes and then we have violent crimes,” McCarver said. “Then we have our analytics here in the department, the NAMAC . All of them work very closely together, even with our drug unit. The collaborative environment that we have really helps to have a much higher solvability rate than we used to.”
In fact, Huntsville had the fewest homicides among the four largest cities in Alabama despite being the largest in population.“The fewer crimes you have to solve, the more resources you can put into each one,” he said. “Right now, when we have a 100% clearance rate, that means we have no active homicides to work. We are working older cases right now.”
“In 2021, we had 151 reported rapes,” McCarver said. “In 2020, it was 142. That’s a little more than a 6% increase. If you go back to 2019, we actually had 162. We’ve had a decrease compared to that year and in 2018, when we had 164 cases.”“Robberies, we had a drastic decrease,” the deputy chief said. “In 2020, we had 213 robberies. In 2021, we dropped all the way down to 162. We actually went weeks at a time with no robberies at all. In a city this size, that’s really unbelievable.
Huntsville police officers were able to clear 85% of drug cases, 85% of simple assault cases, 75% of aggravated assault cases, 65% of rape cases and 64% of robbery cases.
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