Item 1C - Boulder Police Department Crime Update PresentationCrime Update
Boulder Police Department
March 1, 2022
Maris Herold, Chief of Police
Boulder Police: Positive Impact
On 02-27-22 at 4:25 PM Boulder Police responded with
medical personnel to a call
Unresponsive male inside a vehicle in a parking lot
Officers located unresponsive male in the driver’s seat
Acquaintances advised that he had “Smoked Fentanyl”
prior to collapsing
Officers immediately administered Narcan and applied
an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) to the male
The Narcan was successful and resulted in
the subject regaining consciousness
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Introduction: Chief Data Analyst
Daniel Reinhard, PhD (he/him)
•Doctorate from Texas State University
o Focus on Crime Science
•Born and raised in Alaska
Overview
•Crime rate comparisons
•Specific Crime in Boulder
•Person
•Property
•Motor Vehicle
•Bicycle
Crime rate: Violent crime
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Crime rate: Property crime
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2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021Crime Rates by 100,000 residentsUS Rate Colorado Rate Boulder Rate
Crime rate: Motor Vehicle Theft
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2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021Crime Rates by 100,000 residentsUS Rate Colorado Rate Boulder Rate
Boulder: Person Offenses
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Boulder: Aggravated Assault
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Boulder: Robbery
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Boulder: Property Offenses
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Boulder: Burglary
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Boulder: Commercial and ResidentialBurglaryBurglary
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Residential Burglary Commercial BurglaryOffenses
Boulder: Downtown Burglaries
City of Boulder
Police Department
•Multiple arrests of serial burglars in late January 2022
•Successes observed with Directed Patrol Activities
Boulder: Motor Vehicle Theft
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Boulder: Theft from Vehicle and of Vehicle Parts
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Boulder: Vehicle Offenses and Recoveries
Motor Vehicle Thefts Stolen Vehicle RecoveriesThefts from Vehicles, Theft of Parts
CATPA
Colorado Auto Theft Prevention Authority
•Generates state funds to support
•LE, prosecution, public awareness
•Grants, lobbying, training support
CATPA
Educational
Materials
Catalytic
Converter
Theft
Educational
Materials
Boulder: Bicycle Theft
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Boulder: Bicycle Theft Investigations
•Lock up your bicycle
•Register with Bike Index
•Report thefts and suspicious
activities
Previously Asked Questions
•On the creation of charts and inferential statistics
•On the complications of population-based rates per month
•A brief answer to a complicated problem:
Establishing best practices for measuring pandemic-relevant effects
Daniel Reinhard, Ph.D.reinhardd@bouldercolorado.gov
Thank you for your time, we will now respond to any questions
Daniel Reinhard, Ph.D.reinhardd@bouldercolorado.gov Crime Dashboardhttps://bouldercolorado.gov/crime-dashboard