Channahon Police Announce Drop in Crime and Overtime
Channahon Police Chief Jeff Wold shares numbers at village board meeting.
Newly-promoted Channahon Police Chief Jeff Wold shared the 2011 annual report with village board members Feb. 6.
"Statistically, 2011 was very similar to 2010," Wold said.
He shared numbers with board members from 2011, 2010 and 2007. Here is how the numbers stacked up.
- Car accidents: down 6 percent from 2010, 22 percent from 2007
- Response time: down 4 percent from 2010, 31 percent from 2007
- Overtime: down 5 percent since 2010, 36 percent in 2007
Conversly to the numbers that went down, the following numbers increased since 2007.
- Number of patrol officers: currently 17, which is the same as 2010, but down up from the 13 in 2007
- Miles patroled: currently 184,939 miles as compared to 180,218 in 2010 and 139,658 in 2007
- DUI arrests: currently 90, down one from 2010, which was at 91, but up from 2007, which was at 24
Tim
1:46 pm on Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Surely this has more to do with the upwards of ~20% population decrease in the village over the same amount of time, than anything the police force has done.
We were all hoping for someone with integrity to take over for one of the dueling ban(joes) - Joe Pena, but it looks like Mr. Wold is going to fit right into the old ways and indirectly claim credit for something that neither he nor the department as a whole, had anything to do with. Sad, really.
If anything, the fact that the amount of officers on the payroll have INCREASED while the population has DECREASED screams some severe fiscal mismanagement is still ongoing within the village, and needs to be addressed.
Time really is running out for the fiscal condition of the village, and every day that goes by with nothing done to stem the fiscal bleeding is making what was once a 90% probability of disaster, into a 99% chance of disaster.
Mike
4:22 pm on Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Tim, where do you get your numbers? Patch reported a loss of 123 people from 2007-2010, which would be about 9.8%, not 20%. Do you have a more recent source of population data than the 2010 Census?
Patch story: http://channahon-minooka.patch.com/articles/channahon-is-down-more-than-100-residents
Zipcodes.com is actually showing a current population of 13,006.
Get Cook Out
3:44 pm on Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Why in the world do we have more patrol officers now in a bad economy than in 2007 when the economy was booming? I imagine the village would state that they were under staffed to begin with. Channahon needs some serious changes within the Village Hall.
Bob
5:23 am on Thursday, February 9, 2012
There will never be any changes to this good ole boy village administration, just look at the recent changes, top administrators swapping jobs, telecommunication tax, because I didn't know what I was signing, mayor not paying taxes from money earned from the village and on and on, no wonder this village is just another sore in this corrupted state.