Paradise Drive activity

[Kapohocat]

http://www.hawaiipolice.com/pdfDocs/Annu...t04-05.pdf

Might try this PDF file and go to page 36 on....

Catherine Dumond
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[Chunkster]

Interesting stats, there, Kapohocat. While they are three years old, that is fairly recent for crime stats. The thing that interests me most was the fact that the percent of crimes cleared (presumably that means solved, resulted in arrest, etc.) has steadily and dramatically dropped since about 1998-99. In some categories only half as many are cleared in the latest years reported vs. a few years earlier. And this in the face of significantly fewer crimes reported in most categories. Unless I am grossly misunderstanding something here (quite possible) the effectiveness of the police in solving crimes has drastically declined. What's up?

[Carey]

Sometimes (don't know for sure if this is the case) PD dept. list the "cases cleared" as those that have a conviction. It can take a year or more for these cases to make their way through the court system, so it can also take a year or more for these stats to catch up. Good question to ask our Community Officer, at your next Neighborhood Watch meeting. (based on the buzz here, I hope all of you are at least thinking of joining your local group, no matter where you live - heck, we still are active in the HPP group, even though we no longer live there, weird no?)
This is a serious request to all of you, many of the Puna groups have dwindling #'s. If you are concerned about all of this, GET INVOLVED. (hubby says "quit posting, show up" I was trying to be more diplomatic)

[Kapohocat]

I dont know that my point of lower crime rate was made by finding the stats that seem to be most currently available on line, but crime in the last half of the nineties was higher by almost 25% than crime in the first half of the this decade. The population has increased by a significant percentage. (Someone will correct me I am sure but isnt it about 40% increase since 2000?). So the point is that although we in Puna have seen two incidents of violent crime in the last two weeks or so, the perception is that crime as increasing is not actually valid. It is actually decreasing. When Yvonne Mathison was murdered, many people said Domestic violence was increasing.... it wasn't - it stayed a constant %. The visibility was just very high as the person doing the blood analysis was the same as used by the OJ case.

Me - I too would rather live "dangerously" in Puna than drive the 5 Freeway in Cali, any day hands down.

-Cat

[Carey]

Cat, you are right, the population of the county has increased while crime has decreased.
At the HPP Neighborhood Watch meeting yesterday, Walt mentioned that HPP now has the 3rd largest population density in the county (behid Hilo & Kailua Kona, and above Waimea)