Police doing a great job in Midland, Texas

The City of Midland released the crime stats compiled by the MPD which compare 2012 with 2011. As follows:

Crime	2011	2012	Change
Murder & Manslaughter by Negligence	4	4	0%
Forcible Rape	20	23	15%
Robbery	58	52	-10.34%
Aggravated Assault	252	321	27.38%
Burglary	715	559	-21.82%
Theft	2,435	2,313	-5.01%
Auto Theft	137	136	-0.73%
Total Part I	3,621	3,408	-5.88%

Note that aggravated assaults are up. That has to be a hard one for the police to get a handle on. It doesn't take a whole lot of effort to commit an assault. But an aggravated assault means the assault must have caused serious bodily injury or involved a deadly weapon. (Picture a drunken brawler breaking a bottle on the bar and wielding it as a weapon. I know, I know, I watch way too much TV.) Anyway, that's behavior that's hard to foresee and prevent.

Burglaries are down significantly. And the police department should get accolades for that. It probably took a lot of policing to catch the burglars they caught. And for every burglar sitting in the slammer, that's a number of burglaries that didn't happen.

Keep up the good work you guys and gals in blue.

Comments

[Janie]

Good to know! I think MPD is doing a great job...

[Geo]

I think so too, Janie. They are very dedicated.