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Presenter reports declines in several offense categories and fewer homicides in early 2025
Summary
A police presenter said several crime categories are down year-to-date, reported a drop in homicides for the first quarter of 2025 and provided firearm-recovery numbers; presenters cautioned it is early in the year to draw long-term conclusions.
Eddy, a police department presenter, reviewed year-to-date crime statistics and told the meeting that crimes against persons totaled 429 in 2025 compared with 552 in 2024. The presenter said total Group A offenses were 1,266 in 2025 versus 1,427 in 2024, a decline of about 11.28 percent.
The nut graf: the presenter said those year-to-date declines include a notable absence of homicides in the first quarter of 2025 (compared with six homicides in the same period in 2024) and fewer firearm recoveries to date than the previous year, but he cautioned it is early in the year to draw definitive conclusions.
Details the presenter provided include that the department recovered 22 firearms year to date (21 handguns and one ghost gun), compared with 30 recovered by the same time in 2024. The presenter said calls for service are down (the transcript reports a decrease of about 6.75 percent year to date) and that some metrics — including arrests — are effectively flat when adjusted for the reduced call volume. He cautioned that percentage differences can appear larger than the absolute numeric differences and said he will monitor the numbers through the summer before drawing strong conclusions.
No formal enforcement action or policy change was announced at the meeting.
