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High Point police report shows drop in major crime; department outlines alternative-response team and other changes
Summary
At a Prosperity, Livability and Safety Committee meeting, High Point Police Chief Cheeks presented the department's 2024 annual report showing declines in several crime categories, upgrades to body-worn and in-car cameras, a new real-time crime center and plans for a 2025 alternative response team and civilian crash investigators.
Chief Cheeks of the High Point Police Department told the Prosperity, Livability and Safety Committee that the department received more than 122,000 calls for service in 2024 and that overall crime fell compared with 2023.
The report, presented as an information item at the committee meeting, said overall crime was down 6% from 2023, property crime fell 3% and criminal homicides decreased by 77%; the department recorded three criminal homicides in 2024, its lowest total since 2013. "We answered over 122,000 calls for service," Chief Cheeks said, and he reported a homicide clearance rate of 66% (two of the three cases), above the national average cited in the presentation.
Cheeks described steps the department credited with driving those trends, including targeted focused-deterrence work, investigative partnerships and community campaigns that encouraged residents to lock vehicles. The department distributed steering-wheel locks to owners of certain vehicle models and said investigators and communications staff used social campaigns to…
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