Busy Police Weekend & Local Crime Stats
After seeing a news item that highlighted a "busy weekend" for local police, I ended up doing some research into local crime statistics. I'm not sure why it was busier than usual recently. I began looking into the statistics to see if I could answer that question. Turns out the statistics didn't help me there... but they did inspire an interest in the statistics themselves. To try and find stats on daily incidents, I looked into the crime statistics published on their website. I looked at the two most recent monthly stats ( Oct and Sep ) as well as the most recent year end summary ( 2021 ) and didn't find any way to see a summary of incidents per day. Having looked for this information, I ended up seeing what I would think is the obvious "dashboard overview" part of their crime statistics... the last column of the year end summary report which compares the current year to the average of the past five years. It highlights better than average in yellow ...