With a rise in shootings and other crimes, it's turning out to be a deadly summer for the City of Tacoma. FOX13
, one person was run over while inside their tent, and I’m not sure if that was an accident or if it was on purpose."
"As of this weekend, for the year 2022, our homicide stats are at 27 for last year at this same date," said Shelbie Boyd with the Tacoma Police Department. "So, August 1st, 2021, we were at 16." "I do know in that in reading our shift recaps, there are now times where those police officers out doing that community-oriented type policing, and being in specific areas at certain times of the day, that there’s actually officers very close by to some of these situations. So, what I see is that offers a victim an officer there much quicker than if that wasn’t taking place," said Shelbie.
Boyd said a multi-prong approach to combating increases in crime will likely play a role in bringing numbers down. That includes:Hiring more officers to fill those roles"We are catching up. We are hiring as many as we can, as quick as we can," said Boyd. "We are looking at our training programs and trying to adapt it to a more adult-learning style, and the police academy has been working with us and trying to get as many into classes as we can get in.
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