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Sheriff’s data: property crime down since 2022; traffic enforcement and high‑priority calls rose
Summary
Chief Mendoza presented Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office data comparing 2022–2024. Property crimes fell in 2023 and have held roughly steady; person crimes show a modest upward trend; traffic stops rose as patrol staffing increased. Council praised deputies and asked for comparative county percentages.
Chief Mendoza presented data gathered from the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office dashboards comparing 2022–2024 counts for Estacada. The slides summarized three-year trends: a notable drop in property crime from 2022 to 2023 followed by relatively flat numbers in 2024; modest increases in some categories of person crimes (assault, harassment, menacing); and an increase in traffic stops driven in part by additional patrol staffing.
Mendoza noted that some categories remain small in absolute numbers, so year-to-year changes appear large on charts but represent low raw counts. He highlighted a sizeable increase in deputy-initiated parking complaints and in high-priority calls dispatched to deputies between 2022 and 2023; those numbers remained elevated in 2024. The department emphasized traffic enforcement and transient-behavior response as current patrol priorities.
Councilors asked about a per-capita comparison to countywide trends; Mendoza said countywide reported crime is on a downward trend and offered to provide comparative percentages to help quantify Estacada’s position relative to the county.
Council members expressed appreciation for deputy work and encouraged continued partnership between the city and the sheriff’s office. No formal policy changes or budget actions were taken during the report.
Dosing: the sheriff’s dashboards and graphs were presented as background data to inform future traffic and public-safety committee discussion.
