October 6, 2008
- Lewiston, Idaho
Arrests up in Nez Perce County
A deputy searches for online information at the Nez Perce County Sheriff's Office. By Hayley Guenthner
LEWISTON - The arrest rate in Nez Perce County is soaring according to the 2007 Uniform Crime Report. The statistical database showed an 84.8 percent increase in the county since 2005. Chief Deputy and Acting Sheriff Dale Buttrey said the jump happened because of hard working deputies and public support.
"There's no more patrols because we haven't hired any more employees since 2004," he said. "It's the deputies being more active. We are getting an increase in calls, as more people move out in the county, of course that increases our call load out there. And then a lot more self-initiated stops and investigations by the individual officers." Buttrey said Nez Perce County authorities cracked down on each of the four types of crime found in the report. "The statistics were broke down into four major categories," he said. "Crimes against persons, crimes against property, crimes against society and then what the call the B group which are offenses that are more bad checks, or disorderly conduct, DUI's that sort of thing. And those were the statistics they used to come up with these rates." Buttrey said the rising arrests don't necessarily mean the amount of crime is also significantly increasing. He said more offenders are being caught. "I don't see an overall crime increase," he said. "We have a slow steady increase. I think more of it is our officers being more aggressive against crime, more assertive out there." The report puts Nez Perce County arrests in the top five of Idaho's counties in 2006, and in the top third for 2007. |
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