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Seaside police report: calls steady, mental‑health and homelessness contacts up; deflection program shows early progress
Summary
Seaside Police Department presented 2024 statistics showing high shares of mental-health and homelessness-related contacts, a small decrease in overall use-of-force incidents, flat crime numbers and growing dispatch workload; officials reported the county deflection program enrollment and early graduations.
The Seaside Police Department presented its 2024 annual report to the city council, highlighting that roughly a quarter of calls for service involved homelessness, mental‑health or related contacts and that the department’s time and patrol resources continue to be absorbed by those needs.
Chiefs and staff reported a total of 9,368 calls for service in 2024. “About 25% of those calls were dealing with either a homeless or mental health … type of contact,” the chief said, adding that those contacts “are keeping us pretty busy.” Traffic stops decreased slightly while traffic crashes rose, a pattern the chief tied to resource allocation and the need for more visible…
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