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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - For the past year, the Marjaree Mason Center has been tracking home unit crossed Fresno County with its home unit dashboard.
The dashboard was launched past summer, arsenic a mode for the nationalist and the halfway to amended way what benignant of home unit is happening crossed the region and who it's impacting.
One twelvemonth aft the motorboat of the home unit information dashboard, CEO of the Marjaree Mason Center Nicole Linder says the information is helping them larn much astir trends locally.
"I think what this shows is it does hap everywhere. And I judge that this benignant of lifts that lens. On the secrecy down home unit and say, okay, well, we person to recognize this is happening successful our assemblage and however bash we beryllium amended equipped to assistance a household subordinate and assistance a neighbor," Linder said.
The dashboard shows wherever calls are happening by city, and sorts the fig of incidents down to the zipcode. It adjacent sorts the information by race, gender, age, and marital status. It goes into extent astir what benignant of transgression happened and if a limb was used, but keeps each of the accusation wholly anonymous.
Linda says the information has been revealing a batch astir what's going connected implicit the past year.
"About conscionable shy of 25% of the victims place arsenic male. I deliberation that's a debased number. I judge that's personally, I judge that's underreported, but I deliberation it's higher than what astir radical successful our assemblage would think, and a smaller percent than I deliberation astir radical would presume are married," she said.
The dashboard besides shows that, by far, the largest property radical for victims and suspects is 25 to 34, with 32% of victims falling into this property group. It besides shows that 16% of victims autumn into the 18 to 25 property group. With this data, she says they're amended capable to people these groups with prevention measures and education.
The information besides revealed, there's an 18% alteration successful the fig of play reports year-over-year.
"I deliberation it's sometimes a small spot unsafe to beryllium excited astir a downward inclination successful thing similar home unit due to the fact that you don't privation radical to beryllium excessively acrophobic to report," Linder said.
Linder says she hopes the information shows the nationalist they're present to service anyone who needs help.
"If there's thing successful the backmost of the backmost of your caput oregon your gut that says this doesn't consciousness right, I don't consciousness safe, delight prime up the telephone and call," she said.
The halfway has since added Fresno Police hazard appraisal data, which shows who has high-risk factors for definite crimes, to the dashboard too.
To instrumentality a look astatine the data, click here.
