STATE OF THE PRECINCT
| NIBRS Crime Metrics 28 days ending July 13 |
| Crime 2026 2025 3 yr. Ave. |
| Assault 91 7 0 87 |
| Incl. Domestic Ag.Aslt 13 7 8 |
| Burglary, B&E 20 33 27 |
| Destruction/Prop.Vandalism 106 54 76 |
| Homicide, non-neg 1 0 0 |
| Homicide, negligent 0 0 |
| Larceny/theft 149 158 172 |
| MV Theft 55 59 69 |
| Robbery 3 6 12 |
| Incl. Car Jacking 0 1 1 |
| Sex Offenses 7 7 6 |
| Stolen Property 1 0 2 |
| Weapon Law Violations 4 8 7 |
| Shots Fired 27 35 26 |
| Gun Wound Vics. 8 3 6 |
| Quast This is the last 28 days of statistics. Assault, as you can see, is up a little bit. Burglary, Break and Entry down a bit. However, property vandalism and destruction is way up.I now understand that has more to do with stealing cars. Homicides were fairly calm. Larceny theft is holding steady. I think the vandalism is tied to car theft. I’m not sure. Chris can correct me. Shots fired is up. With July 4th, I’m not going to worry about it too much, but I am concerned about motor vehicle theft and rise in vandalism. So, Chris, do you have a comment? Hudoc: It’s the same pattern that we’ve been seeing recently with the juvenile auto thefts and attempted auto thefts. Some of those vehicles are actually taken. Some are not, but they attempt to steal it and damage it in the process. Quast: So It ends up getting two charges, right? Hudok If it’s a completed auto theft, it should just be that. If it’s an attempted auto theft, it would be coded probably with that. If there was damage to it, that would be damaged auto with a notation of attempted auto theft to it.That should be two separate offenses either completed or attempted with the damage. Quast: Karl Smith has a question Smith: Last week, all of my neighbors on both sides of 19th Ave SE between Como and Fairmont had their car windows broken, sometimes more than one window. I thought that was kind of diminishing, but now they’re in my neighborhood. Hudok: Yeah, they seem to move through different neighborhoods for whatever reason. Maybe it’s they don’t want to spend too much time in the same one and, risk getting caught there. If they see valuables or they think they see valuables in the vehicle, that’s always an attraction.It has gone down somewhat from earlier this year, but we still do have the incidents of people just randomly breaking vehicle windows. There doesn’t really seem to be a desired attempt to get into the vehicle or take anything from it. It’s just simply causing that damage. Smith: That seemed to be the case here. Nothing was taken from inside any of the vehicles. Several of the people at my Wednesday Breakfast Club had their car windows smashed. Quast: Okay, any other trends you want to talk about, Chris? Hudok: Nothing that comes to mind, but you mentioned the Fourth of July with, obviously, an increase in some incidents due to the holiday and the weather Marie Meyer: I have a question. I was just in California. Because of the fires they have, they said no fireworks. And then they had the drones identify which homes, which residences fireworks were coming from. was a fine then sent to the property owner. But they were able to find the exact address where these fireworks were being shot up. Hudok : That it makes sense because most fireworks complaints we get, by the time the squad is dispatched, and gets there, it’s pretty much over with, right? But I suppose having a drone up in the air, they might see where that came from, go back, look at the video, triangulate from the drone’s position and know exactly what residence that came from. Meyer, As Gail was talking about drones, I was thinking that if our shot spotters, could home in and identify an area or property where shots are fired, it would seem like they could do surveillance? Apparently it really works for the fires in California. Hudock: I don’t know what the particular laws or statutes are out there but I think you would have to issue a citation to the person who was discharging them. Quast: If someone wants to pursue this further, I can ask City Attorney Okoronkwo to come in at a future meeting, and discuss it. Also, the ACLU has a couple of white pages posted on its website. They’re on open read, so you don’t have to be a member to get in there. Check:https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/domestic-drones Bonneville: Chris, can you give us any update on the event from a week or so ago? I don’t know if the second person is still alive or not. Hudok: It’s the 4th of July shootings you’re talking about? As far as I know it was just one homicide, but if they had expired I would, I would have that by now. One of them was at an unlicensed business, which has since vacated. I don’t know how long the business had been there, but it was unlicensed, unregulated, and they have since left. The other was at the Speedway, if I remember correctly. It it seemed to be some different groups of people. I don’t know if they had run into each other there or whatever. Obviously ended in violence there. I know they’re both, you know, being actively investigated. and officers are still working through the investigations. Quast: I’ve got one more thing we haven’t covered in the agenda yet. I have put a notice out that the Officer of the Month program is coming back to 2-PAC. When I started at 2-PAC some 17 years ago, the award was actually presented at our meeting. Then due to staffing loss, Covid sequestering and more, it was moved away. I believe that shorted both the officers who won the awards, and the people who actually live or work in the 2nd Precinct. We need to know and be able to identify the people on the MPD who are protecting us in the 2nd Precinct. We need to know those faces. We need to know those names. We need to know what they did and why they did it. We need that so we know why we can trust them. I believe the Officer of the Month never actually went away, but we never heard anything about it at 2-PAC. I spotted an OOTM award at MSTAT abut a year ago. so: We will not go through the (cited) expense of calling an officer to come in to get a round of applause from us, but I’ve asked Lt Hudok to supply us with the officer’s official photograph, and to read the citation into the monthly meeting so we can see who they are and learn what they did. Also, the Lt. has been doing the catch up work to bring our citation plaques (hanging in the lobby) up to date. Two years ago, the plaques were there but the name tags were blank. This will be kept current. 2-PAC now has a treasurer, Dan Miller. He and Lt. Hudok will coordinate the project. The cost of this project is still under $100, (unbelievably low), but 2-PAC really needs to also step up and contribute to other Precinct-related projects. Picnic foods for the annual Open House would be a good place to contribute. Table at an Open Streets event in the Precinct? 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