Methods to cut back particular varieties of crimes throughout Madison this previous summer season seem to have been overwhelmingly profitable, primarily based on knowledge launched by the police division Thursday — and never simply compared with a tumultuous 2020.
The one main exception? A criminal offense that’s maybe the simplest to forestall: automobile theft.
Final spring, Police Chief Shon Barnes directed captains in each of the city’s six police districts to give you three or 4 varieties of crimes they hoped to see lowered over the summer season months, and to decide to particular share reductions in order that success, or lack thereof, may very well be measured come fall.
All instructed, the captains dedicated to reductions of 10% or 15% for housebreaking, theft from auto, stolen autos, home disturbances, injury to property, retail theft, sexual assault, disorderly conduct/easy assault and pictures fired.
Citywide from Might 24 to Aug. 16, all of these crimes however disorderly conduct/easy assault and stolen autos fell by double digits compared to the identical interval in 2020, a 12 months when town noticed a file improve in gun violence amid the stress brought about the pandemic and sometimes-destructive racial justice protests. Reductions ranged from 30% for housebreaking to 68% for pictures fired. Solely disorderly conduct/easy assault and stolen autos had been up, by 3% and 1%, respectively.