{"id":8995,"date":"2023-07-20T17:01:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T17:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=8995"},"modified":"2023-07-20T17:01:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T17:01:20","slug":"mayor-police-chief-hail-improved-crime-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/20\/mayor-police-chief-hail-improved-crime-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor, Police Chief Hail Improved Crime Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz announces mid-year crime stats as TPD Chief Michael Troendle looks on<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Truth Staff<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz and Toledo Police Department Chief Mike Troendle held a press conference last week to announce a dramatic improvement in the city\u2019s year-to-date crime statistics.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the biggest news story of the year,\u201d said the mayor opening the press conference. \u201cIt\u2019s pure newsworthiness, the fact that crime is so dramatically down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crime, for the first half of the year, is indeed dramatically down. With the exception of auto thefts, other categories show huge improvement over the last two years \u2013 a return to pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n

Burglaries in the first half are down 9.6 percent; robberies down 33 percent, theft from motor vehicles down 35 percent, people shot down 28 percent. The key statistic is homicides. In 2022 for the first six months of the year, there were 24 homicides in the city. This year, there have been 16, a drop of 33 percent.<\/p>\n

\u201cHomicides are down across the country,\u201d noted Kapszukiewicz. \u201cThe decline is part of a more encouraging national trend but we are well above the national pace.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mayor attributed the drop to a plan put together by the administration and TPD at the time Chief Troendle was appointed to his position in 2022. \u201cOur approach has been to develop a plan\u201d to deal with the violence issue an stick to iy, he said.<\/p>\n

Some of the elements of that plan included: beautifying neighborhoods, investing in youth (as much as $4 million, he noted), eliminating blight, attracting business development and improving housing stability.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur plan seems to be working, we are returning to a pre-pandemic norm,\u201d said Kapszukiewicz.<\/p>\n

Troendle also touted the newly released statistics but also added that \u201ccontrolling crime is bigger and the police department.\u201d He said that the \u201cstate of the city\u201d as such conditions as blight improve helps to lower incidents of crime. The chief also said that TPD is trying to emphasize ways to get officers closer to the community through such methods as increased bicycle patrols and re-introducing foot patrols.<\/p>\n

Additionally, \u201cwe want to be more proactive in addressing nuisance crimes which is directly related to the reduction of homicides.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201crest of the system is catching up,\u201d added Troendle, explaining for example that the courts held \u201cmore homicide trials this month than before.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mid-year stats are not required reporting for the city to any other government entity but Kapszukiewicz said that internally the numbers were helpful in possibly seeing how the year-end statistics might look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Truth Staff Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz and Toledo Police Department Chief Mike Troendle held a press conference last week to announce a dramatic improvement in the city\u2019s year-to-date crime statistics. \u201cThis is the biggest news story of the year,\u201d said the mayor opening the press conference. \u201cIt\u2019s pure newsworthiness, the fact that crime is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[184],"class_list":["post-8995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8997,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8995\/revisions\/8997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8995"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=8995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}