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Police report: Safe Hotels initiative shows large drop in applicable calls, some hotels reinvesting
Summary
Broken Arrow police reported that the Safe Hotels initiative has cut applicable police calls at city hotels from several high rates to only two hotels above the city’s target, and that multiple hotels have begun renovations and increased cooperation with law enforcement.
Chief Lance Arnold updated the City Council on the Safe Hotels initiative on June 3, reporting a significant decline in applicable police calls for service at hotel properties since the program began.
Arnold said the city’s assessment removes non‑police nexus calls (for example, medical emergencies) and divides applicable calls by the number of rooms at each hotel to produce a per‑room ratio. The city’s target ratio is 0.6 applicable police calls per room per year. Using a pre‑initiative reference year, eight of 14 hotels exceeded that 0.6 benchmark and five exceeded…
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