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ASU assessment: Phoenix community safety plans reduced some crimes but key issues remain, committees urge continued work
Summary
City staff and Arizona State University presented an evaluation of Phoenix’s community safety plans showing crime declines in some corridors but persistent drug, prostitution and encampment problems that residents want the city to keep addressing.
City staff presented an ASU evaluation of the Phoenix Community Safety Plans and described mixed results: the study found measurable reductions in overall crime in several focus corridors but identified persistent public-safety and quality-of-life issues that community committees want the city to keep addressing.
Special Projects Administrator Nick Valenzuela and police staff summarized ASU’s findings, telling the subcommittee that areas along 19th Avenue, 20th Street/7th Avenue corridors, Bell Road and Hatcher Road showed varying degrees of crime reduction tied to the multi-department safety plans. For example, staff reported a 43% reduction in overall crime on Bell Road and declines in aggravated assaults, trespassing, drug offenses and shoplifting in that corridor; the 20th/7th Avenue corridor showed 29% and 35% reductions in two subareas, while Nineteenth Avenue showed a 17% reduction…
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