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Show fpje jlalt fake tribune Program- - Seek lo Restart 'Street (an 1 I kiR Ialueation Hriirhtun illere-- t ' enue pet ' e I 'S Du' Local police departments worked long hours and 1985 to handle an increase in crime. late nights in ' After four years of steady decline, Dais Countys crime rate jumped roughly 10 percent. Po- - population figures for each city, only the enure county's crime total was divided by the number of residents to find the crime rate.) 0. CKK3 ' c lice administrators could not identif an specific cause for the increase among many ariables. Last Year Davis County Crime Jumped 10 Population Growth May Be Partial Cause of Increase SU Public Safety, and later toruardod to the FBI tor inclusion it national crime totals murdi r t .ip robbery , agg' a- Hie Part One' of fens v vated assault burglary, theft auto th tt and h,.u 2. Column I See l , The Tribune analysis used early totals for eight crimes to be gathered in several months by the Ctah Department of ur--o- n By Katherine Kapos And Rodd G. Wagner Tribune Staff Writers After four years of steady decline. Davis County's crime rate bounced up 10 percent in 1985, according to a Tribune analysis of preliminary police reports. Reported crime in all but two Davis County jurisdictions increased. Centerville's crimes were down four percent, and 12 fewer crimes in the small city of Clinton dropped its total by 10 percent. Leading the increase, because of the jurisdictions' size, were a projected 20 percent increase in Bountiful, 29 percent jump in Centerville and 28 percent rise in Kaysville. (The change in Bountiful's total was based on figures through Oct. 31. 1985; the full year's totals have not been completed.) Layton was the only city not included in the analysis because the city's police department has not yet compiled its SALT LAKE & DA VIS COUNTY CRIME statistics. throughout the country, violent crime contributed only a minor fraction to the overall rate. In Davis County during 1985 it increased 14 percent over the previous year. Property crimes were up 21 percent. Local police administrators were generally at a loss to explain the increase, most saying too many factors affect crime. There are many variables that contribute," said West Bountiful Police Chief Wayne Jeppson. 'Attitudes, economy, narcotic increase, all these put together have a definite ef1985 As it docs fect." Part, but not all, of the increase can be attributed to growth accurate in the county. (Because of the lack of year-to-yea- r Scurco: "Crime in (Jtab," I960-- 1 984- - So1 lose ana Dos s Lot-- v pc cc c s c - |
