“We very rarely run into issues with the data. The department has worked very hard to build trust in the reporting process and as that work continues, people feel safe reporting crimes,” said Detective Patrick Michaud with SPD Public Affairs.
After Tacoma Police Union President Henry Betts said the city’s crime information is misleading its residents, the Seattle Police Department wanted to ensure their data is as accurate as possible.
“Tacoma Police Department leadership recently presented to the City Council an update on violent crime in the City of Tacoma. That update was widely covered by the local media. The Officers, Detectives, and Sergeants represented by the Tacoma Police Union Local 6 interact daily with the community that is experiencing unprecedented crime in our city,” Betts wrote. “For us, the real message was lost in TPD’s presentation.
While that number would only qualify as the sixth-lowest month of crime in the previous year, Seattle has witnessed a 13% drop in crime from January through October, according to2022’s crime trends have been an anomaly compared to the previous two pandemic-riddled years. Whereas crime peaked in the month of January 2022 , 2020 saw a three-month high in crime from September to November, and 2021 peaked from October through December.
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