Crime rates are dropping amid the coronavirus crisis as people stay at home, but that doesn’t mean everyone at home is safe.
April 4, 2020, 12:00 PM UTC
At the same time, calls for domestic disturbances and violence surged by between 10% and 30% among many police agencies that contributed data. Several also saw upticks in public nuisance complaints such as loud noise from parties. Baltimore Police Department, for example, received 362 loud music complaints in the last two weeks of March, nearly matching its total for all of February.
“It’s not that we’re not enforcing ,” Campos said. “It’s that we’re finding alternative ways of dealing with the issue rather than make physical arrests.” “We’re kind of refocusing our commitment and trying to make sure our officers are safe,” Jones said, adding that two of the department’s 1,300 officers have tested positive for coronavirus and a few others have had to self-quarantine.
One of the fastest jail-booking declines happened in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, where on Friday the 185th coronavirus infection was announced in the community of about 100,000 people. The Lafourche Parish Correctional Complex is now booking about as many people per week as it booked per day in February. It has eliminated in-person visitations.
Several police departments also recorded significant drops in drug, narcotics and alcohol crimes — some of the most common ways people land in jail in America, according to FBI data. Such incidents over the second half of March fell 76% in Denver, 87% in Providence, Rhode Island, and 45% in Seattle, the epicenter of the nation’s first major coronavirus outbreak, data show.
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