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West Chester police report rising nuisance calls; council hears university citation data
Summary
Police Chief Josh Lee presented monthly public-safety statistics, highlighting arrests for public drunkenness and noise complaints; a council member and chief discussed more frequent sharing of citation data with the university after statistics showed students were a minority of citations this year.
Police Chief Josh Lee told the West Chester Borough Council that while overall call volumes were largely steady, nuisance categories require substantial officer time and attention. For November, he said there were 23 public-drunkenness arrests and 9 noise violations among other counts; in November the borough logged 48 noise complaints, nine of which led to prosecution or citation.
"A large portion of that number of public drunkenness arrests are the police intervening in an…
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