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Kent County deputies brief Cascade Charter Township on crime trends and hotel licensing
Summary
Deputies Omar Dieppa and Kate Chase Oppoff told the Cascade Charter Township board that the East Precinct handled about 7,300 calls for service in the past year, with hotels accounting for roughly 6–7% of those calls; deputies described crime trends, a 39% clearance metric for cases with identified suspects, and progress on a new hotel licensing program.
Deputy Kate Chase Oppoff and Deputy Omar Dieppa of the Kent County Sheriff’s Office gave the Cascade Charter Township board an update on public-safety activity and the township’s hotel-licensing effort, saying about 7,300 calls for service came from the township in the past year.
"About 7,300 calls for service," Deputy Kate Chase Oppoff said, explaining the figure includes broadcasts, medical and fire calls, and proactive policing activity rather than only criminal complaints. Deputies said proactive work accounts for about 36% of those calls in some corridors and that 552 of the calls were tied to hotels along the 28th Street corridor.
Why it matters: the 28th Street corridor contains dense retail and several hotels that deputies said generate disproportionate service demands. The deputies told the…
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