New crime stats web site
An Olympia company has dipped into the world of Internet-based crime stats. Looking Glass Analytics announced today they’ve launched a new web site, www.WACrimestats.net. Users can browse – for free –...
View ArticleMid-year crime report
The Washington Association of Sheriffs & Police Chiefs is out with its annual mid-year crime report. There’s some good news for Tacoma (and it’s a little surprising, at least to me, given the...
View ArticleCrime stats galore
I’ve got a story in today’s paper that reveals the 2006 violent crime stats for the Tacoma Police and Pierce County Sheriff’s departments. If you want to spend more time looking at and analyzing crime...
View ArticleStudy finds violent crime on the rise
The New York Times has a story in today’s paper about a recent study that found violent crime is on the rise again across the country. The story begins: Violent crime rose by double-digit percentages...
View ArticleSouth King residents now can check crime stats for their ‘hoods
The King County Sheriff’s Office recently added a searchable crime statistics tool to its Web site. The tool allows folks to search for crime stats for their neighborhoods. I gave it a quick try, and...
View ArticleViolent crime up, property crime down in T-town
The FBI released its first look at crime that occurred in 2007. This preliminary report covered only the first six months of 2007 but revealed that: Each of the violent crime offense categories (murder...
View ArticleWhich Pierce County city had the highest crime rate in 2007?
It wasn’t Tacoma, though the county’s largest city did come in third. Puyallup led the list with 86.7 crimes per 1,000 residents. Fife was second with 86.5. Tacoma’s crime rate was 83.4. (The crimes...
View ArticlePreliminary crime stats released
The FBI this morning released the preliminary crime statistics for 2007. The good news is there were declines reported in violent and property crimes. That mirrors what Tacoma and Pierce County...
View ArticleCrimes falls in 2008 across the nation
The FBI released a preliminary report today on the crime trends from last year in the country. You can find specifics here. Here’s the report from the Associated Press: WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI says...
View ArticleCrime declined in Tacoma, according to FBI report
Violent and property crime in Tacoma dropped last year, mirroring a national trend. Violent crime – murder, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault, decreased more than 3 percent, going from...
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