Stamford = Shitden

Local crime jump mirrors U.S. trend

Violent crime around the country jumped about 3.7 percent during the first sixth months of last year compared with the same period in 2005, according to FBI statistics released last month. That followed a 2.5 percent jump from 2004 to 2005, leading experts to fear that an era of falling crime rates is over.

The number of violent crimes in Stamford jumped 16 percent in 2005 and 10 percent over the first six months of 2006 - more than the average national increase for each time frame.

But the number of crimes committed here remains far lower than most of the 232 cities with populations of more than 100,000 that sent data to the FBI.

The number is so low that an increase of only a few dozen violent crimes over a year can trigger a double-digit jump. The 10 percent jump in 2006, for example, amounts to less than one violent crime per week.

"I'm very pleased," Police Chief Brent Larrabee said. "We came out better than I expected."

The six-month period includes the killing of a city teen and the wave of gang violence that followed. The gang battles faded over the summer after a fragile truce and a massive undercover police effort to lock up drug dealers and gang members.

The operation, called Clean Streets, netted about 75 arrests over the spring and summer. Larrabee experimented with a special patrol shift during high-crime hours and raised the number of officers on duty on most shifts.

He said he is "confident the ranking will be even better" after the last half of 2006 is calculated.

Stamford's violent crime rate has increased for five consecutive years even as it stayed near the top of the safest-city rankings. The city finished seventh in 2004, fourth in 2003, fifth in 2002 and ninth in 2001. Stamford was easily the safest big city in Connecticut during the first half of last year.Waterbury and Bridgeport police reported more than twice the number of crimes as Stamford, and Hartford police reported about four times more.

The number of violent crimes dropped in Bridgeport and Waterbury compared with 2005.


-Taken from the Stamford Advocate

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