Crime Drops In Unincorporated Sarasota County
Aggravated assaults, however, doubled in Sarasota County in 2012 compared to 2011.
Crime in unincorporated Sarasota County has dropped by more than 16 percent in 2012 compared to the previous year, according to statistics released by the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office this week. Violent crimes plus burglary, larceny and car theft, known as Part 1 Offenses in the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Index, decreased nearly 18 percent, according to the sheriff's office. The number of violent crimes such as murder, robbery and aggravated assault, which account for part of the Total Index Offenses, is down nearly 16 percent. However, within that, aggravated assault has more than doubled—up more than 104 percent, going from 21 to 43 reported cases, according to the report. Larcenies have also slightly increased, by 3 percent, up …
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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 ›