January 1 - December 31, 2024
In a 1913 article, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote: "Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman."
The phrase is a metaphor for how transparency and openness in information are the best ways to prevent corruption, unethical behavior, and mismanagement. Just as sunlight can illuminate dark corners and reveal hidden problems, transparency can also expose and eliminate corruption.
The majority of cities in every state publish or post on the internet their city's yearly crime report, a report that typically mirrors the FBI Uniform Crime Reports (UCR). These reports allow a community to gauge the current state of crime and allow citizens to see any directional movement in crime numbers from past reported numbers. However, not since 1980 has a representative of the City of Springfield published any report on crime.
The City of Springfield's last annual crime report was submitted to the public in 1980. The Office of Justice Programs has made a copy of the 1979 report available below. https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/70163NCJRS.pdf
Please join SDVC January 28, 2025 as we present:
THE YEAR IN REVIEW
2024 CRIME IN SPRINGFIELD, OHIO
January 1 - December 31, 2024
This report presents official documented criminal victimizations. Data was sourced from Prosecutorial data, SPD report data, Clark County Municipal Court records and from the public records of the Clerk of Courts of Clark County, Ohio.
The presentation dives into statistics on fatal felony crimes and nonfatal violent crimes (murder, nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault), property crimes (burglary, vandalism, trespassing, motor vehicle theft) and other types of theft (household, commercial, white collar and shoplifting). In addition, the report covers other crimes against persons (domestic violence, menacing, stalking and strangulation). Lastly, the report covers all drug related crimes and gun related crimes. The report also describes the characteristics of criminal offenders such as age, sex, race/ethnicity and residence of criminal offenders.
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