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Lancaster leaders credit new hybrid police model, AI and drones for sharp crime declines and secure $2 million violence-prevention grant
Summary
City leaders and Lancaster Station deputies told the council that a hybrid Lancaster Police Department, new analytics, cameras and drone operations have coincided with reductions in multiple crime categories; officials also said the city received a $2,000,000 violence-intervention grant to expand prevention work.
Mayor (recorded in the transcript as 'Paris' and later as 'Perez') and law-enforcement leaders delivered a progress report to the Lancaster City Council on the city’s hybrid policing model, new technologies and a recently awarded violence-prevention grant.
The mayor said the city created a hybrid department to supplement the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and bring local control over staffing and technology. “We now have the Lancaster Police Department with very experienced officers,” the mayor said, adding the city deployed tools intended to make neighborhoods safer. He told the council that in 2023 Lancaster was the only comparably sized city he knew “with a 100% solve rate of the homicides.”
A Lancaster law-enforcement speaker identified in the transcript by references as Rod described the partnership as two…
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