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Harlingen police report 17% drop in overall crime, highlight hot-spot policing and new units
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Police Chief Alfredo Alvar told the commission the department has a 17% overall crime decrease year-to-date, cited hot-spot deployment, a precision ‘crime suppression’ unit and planned new equipment and programs.
Harlingen Police Chief Alfredo Alvar told the city commission on Oct. 6 that the department has recorded a 17% decrease in overall crime this year and outlined tactics behind the reduction, including data-driven hot-spot enforcement, a crime-suppression unit and increased traffic and pedestrian contacts.
“We have, since January, a 17% decrease in crime overall,” Chief Alvar said, adding that robberies were down 32% and rapes down 33% compared with the prior period. He said motor-vehicle thefts were down 22% and burglaries down 28%, while aggravated assaults were down 16%.
Alvar described the department’s strategy as targeting red “hot spots”…
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