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New APD chief outlines 100-day review, evidence-based policing and wellness focus as crime falls in early 2025
Summary
Police Chief Tarek Maguire presented a state-of-public-safety update to council, citing a year-to-date decrease in several crime categories, plans for evidence-based policing, and a focus on officer wellness and school partnerships.
Alexandria Police Department Chief Tarek Maguire told the Alexandria City Council on April 8 that the department’s 100-day review has yielded changes in deployment, a weekly crime-review process and early signs of crime reductions in 2025.
"We are doing the work every single day," Chief Maguire said, and summarized early results: a reported 25% reduction in overall crime for the first quarter of 2025 compared with the same period last year, with violent crime down about 43%, property crime down about 23% and nuisance crimes down about 36%.
Nut graf: Maguire presented a framework to build a five-year public safety plan that uses evidence-based policing, data analysis and community co-production. He also emphasized officer wellness, youth mentoring and stronger liaison work with schools as part of a broader effort to sustain reductions and improve public confidence.
What the chief…
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