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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A survey released by the U.S. Department of Justice looking astatine nationwide convulsive transgression implicit the past twelvemonth shows betterment for Fresno.
“We’re getting down to immoderate of our little historical levels of shootings,” said The Fresno Police Department’s Interim Police Chief, Mindy Castro.
The U.S. Department of Justice reports that homicides and robberies successful Fresno are down.
A survey done from Jan. 1 to June 30, 2023, shows determination were 19 homicides successful Fresno. In the aforesaid clip successful 2024, 14 were reported.
The 2023 survey shows 456 robberies successful Fresno -and 433 successful 2024.
“We person tactical teams retired successful the thoroughfare on with our MAGEC, which is our pack unit. And they enactment perpetually connected the thoroughfare to make intel,” said Casto.
She says a substance of squad efforts and modern exertion is portion of the crushed for the decline.
Casto says the gunshot detection strategy called Shot Spotter has helped tremendously.
“We're continuing that concern due to the fact that we truly get bully evidence. It gets america to a shooting rapidly and it helps to sphere beingness if someone's the unfortunate of a shooting,” she said.
For rape and aggravated assault, transgression rates successful Fresno are up this twelvemonth compared to past year.
90 rapes were reported successful 2023 and 91 successful 2024. There were 856 reports of aggravated battle successful 2023 and 874 successful 2024.
Casto says she believes the uptick could really beryllium owed to a emergence successful weapon violence.
“They're much of a transgression of accidental wherever our weapon unit often is are our gangs, and we're capable to benignant of foretell that oregon recognize wherever it's coming from,” Casto said.
She says the section is dedicated to improvement.
“This twelvemonth to date, we're astatine astir 134 shootings wherever past twelvemonth we were astatine 235. That's astir a 44% alteration this twelvemonth from past year. And it was a immense alteration from 2021 to 2022,” said Casto.
To instrumentality a look astatine the Department of Justice’s afloat report, click here.
