Is Crime Up Or Down In Sarasota?
Is there more crime in Sarasota so far this year than last year? Depends who you ask and how you frame it.
Is there more crime in Sarasota so far this year than last year? Depends who you ask and how you frame it. In Sarasota city limits, crime rates are down this year, the Sarasota Police Department says, but arrests have increased. That's for data through April 30. During that time frame, there have been 548 felony index crimes reported, representing a 5 percent decrease compared to the same time in 2011. A felony index crime includes murder, forcible sexual offenses, robbery, aggravated assault, aggravated battery, burglary, grand larceny, and car thefts. From Jan. 1 to April 30, 2011, there were 577. This also means 29 fewer victims were involved, according to the police department. However, in the first four months of 2012 arrests have …
Charles Schelle
10:09 am on Friday, May 18, 2012
Hi Lois, I reached out to Wendy Rose with the sheriff's office community affairs division and had this to say: "That is the concept that drives our Intelligence Led Policing philosophy/model. (The published theory is that roughly “six percent of offenders commit sixty percent of the crimes”). It is something we definitely track internally but is not available in published reports." more ›