cmseitz@mindspring.com
Below you’ll find three pages of crime statistics most of you are now accustomed to seeing. The first is the page that shows you how Altadena Station’s stats compared to all of the other areas served by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department for the first 11 months of 2011, and for purposes of comparison, how our current crime rates vary from 2006 and 2010. The second page shows you a breakdown of all Part I crimes for Altadena for 2006, 2010 and the current year, through November 30, 2011, and the third pages shows you the crime stats for the same period for both Part I crime and Property crimes.
Those of you who have been reading these stats for a year or so were aware that for the period of time which began toward the end of 2010 and continuing through most of 2011, Altadena showed the greatest reduction in Part I crimes of any sheriff’s department area. That happened because of the dedicated deputies and detectives at Altadena Station and the captain, lieutenants and sergeants who took what had been a monumental increase in residential burglaries and thefts from vehicles very seriously. Over a period of about a year to a year and a half, the hard work done by the Altadena Sheriff’s Station got a good grip on those crimes, and the result is what you see today. We aren’t seeing a 49% or 39% reduction in these crimes any longer as we’ve been catching up to the initial big reductions that showed up in the stats about 15 months ago.
The last two months, Altadena has had the second largest reduction in Part I crimes, and in both instances, it was the Avalon Station that experienced the biggest reduction.
One major element that contributed to the big reduction in these crimes is you, the members of the Altadena Community and the way you all stepped up to report suspicious activity, your willingness to report any and every form of unusual behavior and the fact that you’ve all kept such a close watch over your neighbors.
by Carolyn Seitz
cmseitz@mindspring.com
Those of you who have been reading these stats for a year or so were aware that for the period of time which began toward the end of 2010 and continuing through most of 2011, Altadena showed the greatest reduction in Part I crimes of any sheriff’s department area. That happened because of the dedicated deputies and detectives at Altadena Station and the captain, lieutenants and sergeants who took what had been a monumental increase in residential burglaries and thefts from vehicles very seriously. Over a period of about a year to a year and a half, the hard work done by the Altadena Sheriff’s Station got a good grip on those crimes, and the result is what you see today. We aren’t seeing a 49% or 39% reduction in these crimes any longer as we’ve been catching up to the initial big reductions that showed up in the stats about 15 months ago.
The last two months, Altadena has had the second largest reduction in Part I crimes, and in both instances, it was the Avalon Station that experienced the biggest reduction.
One major element that contributed to the big reduction in these crimes is you, the members of the Altadena Community and the way you all stepped up to report suspicious activity, your willingness to report any and every form of unusual behavior and the fact that you’ve all kept such a close watch over your neighbors.