“The mounted unit is decimated, and I’m told nobody is working auto theft now,” said Cleveland Councilman Michael Polensek.
Michael Polensek is the Ward 8 Councilman and Chairman of the Safety Committee, “We’re at 1283 police officers , so if we lose another 18 we’ll be at the same level we were in 1923, which is 1,265 police officers. Now, they’ll argue that well you had more people in 1923. Of course, we did, but I can assure you they didn’t have the level of violent crime that we have. They weren’t carjacking Model T’s in 1923.
According to a patrol officer’s analysis calculated by the city, Councilman Polensek tells 19 News that Cleveland is down 44 officers in the first police district and down 52 officers in the second district. The force is also down 41 officers in the 4th district and 39 in the 5th district and that’s just patrol officers.
Polensek says it’s hard to believe there are no officers working in the auto theft unit at a time when car thefts are up 116%, “We’re averaging 23 cars a day being stolen in the city. We have not seen figures like this in God knows how long.” Cleveland resident and taxpayer Randi Schofield says she feels robbed because her father Keith Schofield was critically injured after a reckless driver sent his car plunging off of an I-90 overpass.
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