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Spokane police report: calls for service down year-to-date; vehicle-registration citations and downtown camping enforcement rise
Summary
Spokane Police Chief Hall told the Public Safety and Community Health Committee that calls for service are down year-to-date compared with the prior two years, while vehicle-registration citations and enforcement of unlawful camping and pedestrian interference remain concentrated downtown.
Spokane Police Chief Hall told the Public Safety and Community Health Committee that overall calls for service are down year-to-date compared with the past two years, but the department has increased enforcement of vehicle-registration violations and downtown pedestrian-interference and unlawful-camping infractions.
Chief Hall said the department does not yet know why total calls are declining. “We don't know why,” he said, adding the department can only offer hypotheses. The chief also said SPD recorded an increase in vehicle-registration citations and that those citations can be parsed into different categories on request.
The uptick in citations and in enforcement of pedestrian interference and unlawful camping is…
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