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Yucaipa police, fire report steady crime rates, describe large rooster-fighting raid and SOP team successes
Summary
At the Jan. 27 Yucaipa City Council meeting, the city's law enforcement and fire leaders reported routine call volumes for October'December, described a multi-arrest cockfighting enforcement action, and highlighted the SOP (Solution Oriented Policing) team's homelessness outreach successes.
Yucaipa police and fire leaders told the City Council on Jan. 27 that overall calls and Part I crime counts for October through December remained within normal ranges, while describing a large animal-cruelty and cockfighting enforcement action that resulted in multiple arrests and seized birds.
Captain Walker of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Yucaipa contract unit presented the police update and crime statistics, saying October calls for service were 3,669, November 3,418 and December 3,428. "We still maintained about that 5 minute average response time for our emergency calls for service in the city," Walker said. He gave month-by-month Part I crime counts and monthly arrest totals (October 99, November 78, December 96), and called the overall patterns "pretty normal numbers."
Walker also described an enforcement response on Jan. 19 to an anonymous tip of cockfighting at a residence. "As they got…
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