Last week, the The Oro Valley Police Department arrested 31 year old Robert Brush, a marketing teacher at Ironowood Ridge. Allegedly, Brush acted in an inappropriate sexual manner with a student. What was this guy thinking?
Saturday, we reported the robbery of the Rancho Vistoso Bank of America branch, the third Oro Valley bank robbery in the past two years.
Last week, the police department issued its monthly update of its police statistics. For 2012, there were:
- 2 Homicides
- 65 Residential Burglaries
- 553 Thefts
- 82% of most urgent calls within 5 minutes. The average response time was 3:37. The goal is 90%
- 97% of the lowest priority within 10 minutes. The average is 7.19 minutes.
Our police are also busy delivering citations, most, we suspect, along the Oracle or Tangerine Corridors. In January and February there were:
- 368 citations for speeding
- 204 citations for insurance violations and
- 101 for registration violations.
These three categories comprise 70% of the 966 violations issued.
These numbers, the arrests at Ironwood Ridge, and the bank robberies remind us all that Oro Valley is not immune from crime. Having an alert, responsive police force matters.
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1 comment:
Seven days and not a single response from those who want to cut the police budget.
Maybe, just maybe, the reality that we do have crime in Oro Valley and do need a very good, well trained and fairly compensated police department is sinking through their obviously dense cranial matter.
Oh yeah...I forgot. They aren't any good. They don't solve crime on their own. They need help from witnesses. How shallow of me.
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