I remember hearing our Mayor Jim Ardis running on the promise to bring crime in our city under control, and how Dave Ransburg was clueless to the fact that we had crime. For people living in Peoria, they knew better, and saw right threw the rose colored glasses of now Ex-Mayor Ransburg.
Well Mayor Ardis is now in power and I wondered if crime was truly on the decline as promised or actually the same or even worse. I did some digging and our own Peoria Police have the information at hand.
Seems we are in worse shape then before, according to the 2006 report from Peoria Police.
http://www.peoriapd.com/2006stats.pdf
Let's compare 2005 to 2005 for January shall we?
First Offenders, up 12%
Repeat Offenders, up 17%
Oh some promise here, Arrest totals are up 16%, that must mean though more crimes or they are better at catching them.
Murders, well we are winning that one for January, -100%
Sexual Assaults, down 45%
Robbery, up 12%
Aggravated Assault / BAttery up 84%
Burglary, wow! A whopping 80%
Car theft is a break even, with 59 stolen last year and again 59 this year, at least our criminal element is holding even…
All in all, we are losing the battle for a safer Peoria. Seems to me that Peoria was promised a safer city by the new mayor, but yet to produce any results that would show his promise to be kept.
How about your Honorable Mayor Ardis, can we see some results, and not promises like all the other political hacks in our area?
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