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DuPage committee asks for clearer crime data after board members podcast comments on Oakbrook Mall
Summary
Committee members debated a board members podcast remarks linking migrants to a rise in crime and sought detailed statistics from the State's Attorneys office, the sheriff and Oak Brook police. Members urged use of the countys crime-transparency portal and requested staff-run data to clarify trends.
At a March 4 meeting of the DuPage County Judicial and Public Safety Committee, members pressed for clearer crime statistics after a committee member said a podcast post had described "a spike in our crime" and cited shoplifting and escapes from Oakbrook Mall.
The discussion focused on where elected officials and the public should find reliable counts. The committee sought data that would show whether incidents at Oakbrook Mall and elsewhere constitute an unusual uptick or isolated recurring incidents. "We haveto be transparent, and we certainly need to explain via facts what is actually going on in DuPage County," the committee member who raised the podcast remarks said…
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