Crime in Downtown Austin – APD CrimeViewer
The Austin Police Department has an application on-line called CrimeViewer where you can review crimes reported in Austin. You can review at the city level, by Council District, by APD district, by zip code and by several other filters. Crimes are segregated into two FBI reporting categories, Part 1 Crimes and Part 2 Crimes. Part 1 Crimes include homicide, aggravated assault, robbery, arson, burglary, auto theft and theft. These are categories that the FBI collects detailed information on and reports at the national level. Part 2 Crimes are everything else, mostly misdemeanor crimes or non-violent crimes which are reported by top-line numbers only.
Crime and Punishment in Austin and Travis County – a roadmap for reform
From the mid-1990s to the second decade of the 21st century, violent and property crimes decreased significantly in the United States. Austin enjoyed the same decrease in crime rates for the most part, until the last few years. Now the violent crime rate in Austin is higher than the national average (although still low for metropolitan areas), and the property crime rate is now almost twice the national average, and higher than Ft. Worth or Dallas. In some parts of Austin (East Cesar Chavez area) crime rates are almost three times higher than even the Austin average.
Is Donald Trump the Founding Father of America First?
On Monday, July 15, Georgia US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene delivered one of the first speeches at the Republican National Convention. It was filled with false and misleading statements – not the least of which was that Donald Trump is “the founding father of the America First Movement” Donald Trump’s America First Movement is a…
Crime in Downtown Austin
4th QTR 2021 In October of 2020 I reported on data from CrimeViewer, the on-line tool that allows you to view crime reports from the Austin Police Department. I reviewed the CrimeViewer data again in April of 2021. In that report, crime had not increased significantly from October 2020, but it certainly did not go down. I just…
We Still Have a Democracy – Let’s use it
A year ago, I wrote an article suggesting that we should replace politicians who are not accomplishing legislation in support of their constituents. The most recent polling data from November 2021 puts the Congressional approval rating at 20%. Congress achieved an approval rating in March 2021 of 36%, which just happened to coincide with passage of the…
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