Report from WDCA Safety Chair:
- District 3, Sector 2 is setting up a PNI (Place Network Investigation) team of 7 officers and 4 detectives as a means to address locations that are a focus of crime. They will not disclose their first target.
- A homicide in District 3 is extremely rare so the one in Fairmount Cemetery is a very big deal and they have the 15-year-old suspect in custody. Police canvased E Exposition for video footage and they even knew what the suspect was wearing, so they solved this quickly.
- Neighborhood Watch is used by a lot of folks and DPD even posts on it, but know that DPD does not monitor it so if you post don’t expect to get a response from DPD
- On the DPD website www.denvergov.org/police there is a blue box under Chief Thomas’ picture that says “report a crime.” If you want to file a police report for a minor crime that doesn’t require witnesses or camera footage you can use this site. It will generate a police report which you can use for insurance purposes. The types of crime that are covered are: Denver Track auto theft; vandalism/damage property; vandalism/graffiti; vandalism to a vehicle; lost property; lost or stolen checks, credit cards or ATM cards; identity theft.
- Crime statistics are presented at every CAB meeting, but the resolution is not fine enough for our purposes, the best we get is precinct 322 which is all of Washington Virginia Vale which goes down to Evans. There is way to do a manual search that can focus on Winston Downs from the Crime Map Dashboard, but is a multi-step process. First go to denvergov.org/police and find the large box labeled “crime information” and click it. There is a small blue box labeled “Launch Crime Map.” From the menus on the left you select “all crimes” and the “Washington Virginia Vale” neighborhood and a “time period”. Unfortunately, the time periods offered are just last week, last month or month-to-date. By enlarging the map you can focus on just Winston Downs and see the points flagged for crimes. There is a time delay on posting of approximately three days. Going back to last month the only incident listed is a burglary at the convenient store on the corner of Monaco and Alameda. You can look at Lowry because it is a separate neighborhood, there is a lot more crime there than in WD.
- LexisNexis has the information too at communitycrimemap.com, again with a lot of filtering.