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Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Officials discuss public safety in Anthem BY ALLISON BROWN Foothills Focus Staff Writer
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epresentatives from the Phoenix Police Department, Daisy Mountain Fire and Medical District, and Deer Valley Unified School District gave public safety updates at a June 7 meeting. Darren Viner, commander of the Phoenix Police Department Black Mountain Precinct, started the meeting by reporting recent crime statistics. From April to May, violent crimes were down 16.4% and weapon offenses were down by 8%. Property offenses were up 3.3%, drug and alcohol offenses were up by 6.5% and fraud offenses were up by 27.5%, according to Viner.
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Study: Some police calls should go to civilians BY PAUL MARYNIAK Foothills Focus Staff Writer
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hoenix officials are working to implement “within a matter of months” the recommendations of an ASU study for handing off thousands of calls for police service to civilian employees. After analyzing 200 types of calls from
examining the 2 million calls for service to Phoenix police in 2021, the ASU study group recommended that civilians — or citizens who made the calls — handle them rather than bother officers. Of those 2 million calls, it said, at least 200,000 could have been handled by someone other than a uniformed officer or self-reported by the person involved. Those calls include minor accidents
with no injuries, “civilian matter stand by” where an officer is called to be on hand for things like exchanges of a child between two people sharing custody, welfare checks, noise and parking complaints, burglar alarms, abandoned vehicles in neighborhoods and property found by someone.
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