Friday, February 25, 2011

Baltimore Stats: A Message from Major Russell of the Eastern District from January 5, 2011


HAPPY NEW YEAR FAMILY!!! 

COLLECTIVELY WE HAD A GREAT 2010 WITH JUST A FEW INITIATIVES AND SCATTERED ENGAGEMENT. WITH THAT THE EASTERN DISTRICT STILL NETTED GREAT SUCCESS. THE DIFFERENCE FROM BEING ORDINARY AND EXTRAORDINARY HAS ONCE AGAIN HAS PROVEN TO BE DOING JUST A LITTLE EXTRA!


THE YEAR IN SUMMARY:

CITYWIDE THE CITY OF BALTIMORE HAD ANOTHER STELLAR YEAR WITH ANOTHER 4% DROP IN VIOLENT CRIME AND 3% DROP IN PROPERTY CRIME AND 3% OVERALL CRIME DROP COMPARED TO LAST YEARS HISTORICAL NUMBERS! BIG UPS TO BPD AND ITS LEADERSHIP!

LET'S SEE WHO LED THE WAY:

FACT - EAST BALTIMORE HAS ALWAYS WORN THE CROWN OF BEING THE MOST VIOLENT AREA OF THE CITY LEADING IN HOMICIDES AND SHOOTINGS. OUT OF 9 DISTRICTS THE EASTERN DISTRICT HAD THE 2ND BEST DROP IN VIOLENT CRIMES - 14%, 2ND BEST DROP IN PROPERTY CRIME - 8% AND 2ND BEST WITH OVERALL CRIME REDUCTION - 10%!  WE ARE ONE OF ONLY 2 DISTRICTS TO HAVE A DOUBLE DIGIT OVERALL CRIME REDUCTION.

THIS IS IMPRESSIVE WHEN YOU TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THAT EAST BALTIMORE HAS THE REPUTATION OF BEING THE WORSE PART OF THE CITY.

EVEN THOUGH THE WESTERN DISTRICT HAD A 1% GREATER VIOLENT CRIME REDUCTION THAN THE EASTERN DISTRICT IN 2010 THEY HAD 14 MORE HOMICIDE/SHOOTING VICTIMS THAN THE EASTERN DISTRICT!

EVEN THOUGH THE SOUTHEASTERN DISTRICT HAD A 6% GREATER PROPERTY CRIME REDUCTION THAN THE EASTERN DISTRICT THEY HAD 1,843 MORE BURGLARIES AND THEFTS!

THE BREAKDOWN:
                                                                    
HOMICIDES
THE FINAL NUMBER IS 39 PEOPLE MURDERED IN THE EASTERN DISTRICT IN 2010.
THIS WAS 3 MORE THAN 2009, BUT NOTE THAT 3 MURDERS WERE CHARGES TO 2010 WHERE THE VICTIMS WERE SHOT YEARS BEFORE BUT SUCCUMBED TO COMPLICATIONS OF THE INITIAL INJURIES. WITH THE 3 ADDED VICTIMS FROM PREVIOUS YEARS THAT GAVE THE EASTERN DISTRICT 3 MORE THAN LAST YEARS 36 PEOPLE MURDERED WHICH EQUATES TO A 8% INCREASE.

I KNOW 39 LIVES LOST IS UNACCEPTABLE AND WE ARE HARDLY REJOICING OVER IT, BUT PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS REPRESENTS A LOW NUMBER FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT WHICH WAS RECORDING A MINIMUM OF 50 PLUS PEOPLE YEARLY BEING MURDERED FOR THE PAST DECADES!

THE EASTERN DISTRICT FELL OUT OF IT'S 8TH PLACING LAST YEAR AND BACK TO LAST WITH THOSE 39 HOMICIDES. THE WESTERN AND NORTHEASTERN DISTRICTS WERE CLOSE WITH 38 AND 37 RESPECTIVELY.

                                                                   
SHOOTINGS
THE FINAL NUMBER IS 60 PEOPLE SHOOT IN THE EASTERN DISTRICT IN 2010.
THIS WAS 26 LESS THAN OUR 2009 STELLAR YEAR!  26 LESS PEOPLE SHOT IN 2010 THAN 2009 EQUATES TO A 30% DECREASE!

THE EASTERN DISTRICT FINALLY FELL OUT OF LAST PLACE IN THIS CATEGORY AND MOVED UP TO 7TH! THIS IS QUITE A FEAT CONSIDERING THE EASTERN DISTRICT HAD THE MOST SHOOTINGS (AND HOMICIDES) YEAR AFTER YEAR FOR DECADES. 2010 HAS THE WESTERN AND NORTHEASTERN DISTRICTS COMING IN LAST AND 8TH RESPECTIVELY WITH 78 AND 61 SHOOTINGS.

I ASKED GOD FOR LESS THAN 100 PEOPLE SHOT OR KILLED IN THE EASTERN DISTRICT THIS PAST YEAR AND HE ANSWERED MY PRAYER! THIS MAY SEEM LIKE A SILLY PRAYER, BUT NOTE THIS IS THE FIRST YEAR THAT THE EASTERN DISTRICT HAD LESS THAN 100 PEOPLE (99 TOTAL) MURDERED/SHOT IN WHAT I BELIEVE TO BE WELL OVER 20 YEARS!  WITH THAT I AM ASKING FOR AN EVEN LOWER NUMBER THIS YEAR. THIS WILL HAPPEN AS LONG AS THE POLICE AND TTT DON'T GROW WEARY AND CONTINUES TO FIGHT BACK!!!


                                                                    
ROBBERIES
THE EASTERN DISTRICT HAD THE LEAST AMOUNT OF ROBBERIES IN THE CITY WITH 250 COMPARED TO THE OTHER 9 DISTRICTS THAT HAD AS MANY AS 586 ROBBERIES.
THE SOUTHWESTERN AND WESTERN DISTRICTS CAME CLOSE WITH 260 AND 290 RESPECTIVELY (ONLY TWO OTHER DISTRICTS UNDER 300).

                                                                  
BURGLARIES
THE EASTERN DISTRICT HAD THE LEAST AMOUNT OF BURGLARIES IN THE CITY WITH 393 COMPARED TO THE OTHER 9 DISTRICTS THAT HAD AS MANY AS 1348 BURGLARIES! THE CENTRAL DISTRICT WAS THE CLOSEST WITH 498 BURGLARIES.
MOST DISTRICTS HAD DOUBLE AND TRIPLE THE NUMBERS OF BURGLARIES THAN THE EASTERN DISTRICT!

                                                         THEFTS AND STOLEN CARS THE EASTERN DISTRICT HAD THE LEAST AMOUNT OF THEFTS/STOLEN CARS IN THE CITY WITH 1367 INCIDENTS COMPARED TO THE OTHER 9 DISTRICTS THAT HAD AS MANY AS 3146 INCIDENTS.  THE WESTERN, SOUTHWESTERN AND NORTHWESTERN DISTRICTS WERE THE ONLY OTHER DISTRICTS WITH NUMBERS UNDER 2000 AS THEY HAD 1427, 1595 AND 1902 RESPECTIVELY.

                                                                   
ARRESTS
CITYWIDE ARRESTS DROPPED BY 13.4% WITH 71,288 ARRESTS MADE.

EVERY DISTRICT DROPPED IN ARRESTS AND THE EASTERN DISTRICT HAD THE 3RD HIGHEST ARREST DROP RATE OF 24.4% WITH 7,529 ARREST MADE. EVEN WITH THAT THE EASTERN DISTRICT STILL GOT THE MOST CRIMINALS OFF OF THE STREET COMPARED TO THE REST OF THE CITY. THE CENTRAL DISTRICT CAME CLOSEST IN ARRESTS WITH THE GREATEST DROP PERCENTAGE OF 28.4% NETTING 5,087 CRIMINALS ARRESTED.

PLEASE KNOW THAT THE EASTERN DISTRICT STAYED AT OR NEAR THE BOTTOM IN ALL THE CATEGORIES I'VE SHARED WITH YOU IN PAST YEARS, SO TO SEE WHERE WE ARE NOW ... BUT GOD!

I'VE SHARED THESE NUMBERS WITH YOU SO THAT YOU MAY KNOW THAT YOUR LABORING IS NOT IN VAIN. OUR PARTNERSHIP THROUGH TTT IS HAVING A  GREAT IMPACT ON OUR CRIME AND IT'S REDUCTION. I GET EXCITED WHEN I THINK ABOUT HOW IT WILL LOOK WHEN WE HAVE JUST 20% OF ALL TTT'S PARTNERS FULLY ENGAGED AND IN THIS BATTLE OF TRANSFORMATION. LOOK AT THE RESULTS OF WHAT A FEW BELIEVERS DID! YOUR PRAYER WALKS, COMMUNITY WALKS, OUTREACHING, AND MANY SORTS OF ENGAGEMENT TRULY MADE THE DIFFERENCE!
TOGETHER WE ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE. LET'S STAY TOGETHER!

HERE'S WHAT I BELIEVE IN MY HEART ... IN THE EASTERN DISTRICT WE HAVE ROUGHLY 120 CHURCHES,  18 SCHOOLS, 26 COMMUNITIES, HUNDREDS OF BUSINESSES, DOZENS OF BUSINESSMEN, MANY NON PROFITS, 130 POLICE, JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL AND MORE.  LET BUT 20% STEP FORWARD, ROLL THEIR SLEEVES UP AND GO TO WORK AND BY FAITH THE CRIME RATE WILL PLUMMET INTO OBSCURITY. THEN AND ONLY THEN WILL YOU CAPTURE THE HEART OF THIS CITY, STATE AND THE NATION. THIS CITY NEEDS YOU FOR YOU ARE THAT GREAT TTT AND I LOVE YOU ALL. SEE YOU MONDAY.

MAJOR

      ALL EVIL NEEDS TO PREVAIL IS FOR GOOD PEOPLE TO DO NOTHING 

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