After a steep increase in violent crimes in recent years, Tacoma is making significant progress towards becoming a safer city.
On Tuesday, Police Chief Avery Moore and a team of researchers presented a years-worth of results from their Violent Crime Reduction Plan.. With results from July 2022 to June 2023, the city saw a 17.5% reduction in violent crimes.
The police chief and researchers from the University of Texas at San Antonio created the crime reduction plan to address rampant violence hitting record levels in Tacoma.During the one-year period, an area of enforcement included officers conducting "hotspot" treatments at known locations where crime was highest. Officials said those patrols proved to be effective. "15 to 16 hot spots per 60-day period," explained Smith.
"The last couple of weeks haven’t been very good, as far as crime. And I don’t want this to appear that we are being insensitive to victims," said Moore.. The police chief said the promising news is the suspect in that homicide, and other offenders in Tacoma, are getting arrested. Phase 1 of the three-phase violent crime reduction plan is complete. Officials said though data shows violent crime is going down, it remains substantially higher than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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