FRESNO, CA (KMJ ) -Fresno Police gave an update on the city’s crime trends – year to date, violent crime is down for Fresno by 7.4%,
“After two consecutive years of seeing crime increase, we are starting to see it drop.”- Police Chief Jerry Dyer.
Police Chief Jerry Dyer says it’s a good trend, calling it “encouraging.”
Shootings are a different matter, in the last 28 days, there were 51 shootings in the city, 31 involved gangs, specifically 26 shootings involved African American gangs, which Chief Dyer says are the manifestation of feuds within the different gang factions.
Fresno experienced eight homicides in the last 28 days, four were allegedly at the hands of the accused shooter Kori Ali Muhammad.
Click to listen to a report by KMJ’s Liz Kern:
Police say Downtown Fresno has seen a drop in crime.
“The first 4 months of the year January through April, we’ve seen crime drop in Downtown 29% in robberies, 17% in larcenies, 18% in burglaries and 22% in stolen vehicles, but we are not celebrating because it’s very busy in there we still have too many cars broken into.” – Lt. Mark Salazar.
Lt. Mark Salazar says a criminal faction of the homeless population are keeping them busy.
“We know there’s a lot of homeless out there that probably should be in prison, if not for different propositions and they’re out there too, they’re on probation, they’re on parole, they’re running from parole, they’re running from probation so we’re taking them on as well.” -Lt. Mark Salazar.
Click to listen to a report on Downtown crime by KMJ’s Liz Kern
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