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April 2018
PRIOR LAKE POLICE DEPARTMENT
MONTHLY STATISTICS
April
2018
April
2017
CHANGE TOTAL
YEAR TO
DATE 2018
TOTAL
YEAR TO
DATE 2017
CHANGE
Homicide 0 0 0 0
Assault 3 9 -67% 12 16 -25%
Robbery 0 0 1 2 -50%
Burglary 3 7 -57% 6 13 -54%
Theft 46 60 -23% 201 206 -2%
DWI 8 8 25 33 -24%
Disorderly
Conduct/Disturbing
the Peace
35 37 -5% 125 132 -5%
Harassing
Communications
7 8 -13% 28 22 +27%
Criminal Damage
to Property
17 19 -11% 46 49 -6%
Domestic Violence 16 20 -20% 87 64 +36%
Medicals ** 73 62 +18% 299 295 +1%
Mental Health** 16 20 -20% 58 45 +29%
Vehicle Lock-outs 13 11 +18% 56 47 +19%
Motor Vehicle
Accidents
50 54 -8% 182 167 +9%
Traffic Stops 260 314 -17% 988 1479 -33%
Total Incidents 1473 1373 +7% 6039 5502 +10%
The incident case reports listed are just a sampling of the 24 crime index categories included in the Uniform Crime
Report and selected call classifications as requested by the City Council for tracking, therefore the totals of the
selected categories will not add up to the total number of incidents shown on the last line above.
The police department has been using the LETG Record Management system for over a year now and comparisons
year to year are now reported in the same system, so the comparisons should be vastly similar given the information
is gathered and reported in the same system for each category.
Heat maps as requested by council, are able to be provided through the new RMS system and additional crime
mapping software. Additionally, public access to crime maps was rolled out in June of 2017. Links to the crime maps
are provided on the police department webpage and at www.communitycrimemap.com
Total calls for service for the month of April were up over April of last year by 7%. This is a trend
we have seen for the last several years (63% increase since 2010). As we see growth in Prior Lake,
the volume of calls would be expected to grow as well. With the increase in calls for service we
have seen a decline in proactive police work in areas like traffic stops and DWI as officers time
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not on assigned calls diminishes. We have also seen in increase in drug related calls and Fentanyl
is becoming an increasing problem for our community, much like the rest of the region.
All Calls for service
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Part I Crimes
(murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, larceny-theft, and arson)
Traffic and DUI