Murder rate down this year for BR

Instead of killing people, they’re just breaking into homes and vehicles all over South BR.

Paul is such a douche. I feel confident it is just random luck.

More jobs = less time to fight on the streets

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Chief Paul says the decrease is due to their efforts to change the perception people have of the department. He says they’re pushing community engagement to break down barriers within the city.

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Yeah, I'm not buying this.

Great that it's down, though. Fantastic.

That's really interesting because in May, this was the headline:

Murder rate for 2018 already ahead of 2017

https://www.wafb.com/story/38301745/year-to-date-murder-rate-for-2018-already-ahead-of-2017/

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Across the entire city, at this time last year (2017), there were 24 murders. So far this year, there have been 35. Remember, last year (2017) was a record setting year and the city's on track to have even higher numbers than that.

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There are a couple ways to spin this. You could say BR was on track for a second record-breaking year in a row until Chief Paul intervened with his community policing efforts and helped get those numbers down.

Or you could say the numbers were so inflated that you were bound to finally get some variance the other way. However, going from +11 in May to -10 just a few months later could be a statistically meaningful swing and not just variance.

They gotta stop holding the gun sideways.

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Chief Paul says the decrease is due to their efforts to change the perception people have of the department.

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I'm going to guess he is incorrect about his highly tested and verified theory.

If this dpish!t could make a decent sentence without "community" being the center of his pea-brained idea, he might just make it as popo chief. When you are a police chief, juss say community a lot. When you be mayor, say moving forward a lot = success.


He says they’re pushing community engagement to break down barriers within the city.

“When the community sees that we’re human and our interaction isn’t always based on negative and they see us in a different light, I think all of those things play into some of the successes,” Paul said.

Chief Paul says they can’t take all the credit though. In fact, he tips his hat to the community. Following the implementation of programs like the Prayer Patrol, that encourages the community to speak up, the chief says, they saw a shift. The homicide clearance rate is up 60 percent, compared to last year’s 46 to 47 percent clearance rate.

“When the community and those bad actors hear that we’re solving crimes at the rate that we’re doing it, that message gets out and they begin to realize their consequences to their actions,” the chief said. “They will be no longer pulling the trigger and running around freely.”

“It’s going to take the community,” he said. “When I was young, I remember it took a community. If you did something wrong, not only could a neighbor discipline you, but if your mom found out, she’d discipline you again.”

Chief Paul says there’s one other thing he thinks really makes a difference. "When we understand that we work for the community.


I'm sending him a thesaurus, I'd bet he thinks it's a book about dinosaurs.

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I'm sending him a thesaurus, I'd bet he thinks it's a book about dinosaurs.

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Are you saying cops are stupid?