Vestavia
Hills Police Department
Crime
Statistics
Data
For Fiscal Year 2003-2004
| During
this fiscal year the City of Vestavia Hills Police Department
received a total of 40,723 calls for service. The department
responded to each call. The majority of these calls required
no follow-up beyond the initial response. Many reported
incidents turned out to be different from the original report
made to the Police Department. Actual Criminal and service
activity handled by the Department in this period included
the following: |
|
Reported
Criminal Activity
|
| Assault |
32
|
| Bomb
Threat |
1
|
| Burglary |
110
|
| Crime
Against Child |
8
|
| Domestic
Crime |
245
|
| Fight |
17
|
| Firearms |
6
|
| Forgery |
21
|
| Fraud |
132
|
| Prowler |
50
|
| Rape |
2
|
| Recovered
Stolen Auto |
36
|
| Robbery |
14
|
| Sex
Offenses |
12
|
| Suicide |
5
|
| Theft |
525
|
| Vandalism |
319
|
|
Total
|
1535
|
|
Traffic
Stops
|
6278
|
|
Traffic
Citations
|
4239
|
|
Other
Arrests
|
440
|
|
Incidence/Offense
Reports
|
2697
|
|
Traffic
Accident Reports
|
1074
|
|
|
Criminal
Cases Assigned To The Investigative Division
|
| Cases
Assigned |
2795
|
| Cases
Cleared |
2299
|
| Clearance
Rate |
82.3%
|
| Arrests
Made |
436
|
|
Case
Type
|
Number
|
| Crimes
Against Persons |
358
|
| Violent
Crimes |
62
|
| Internal
Investigations |
11
|
| Property
Crimes |
2174
|
| Other
Cases (including Juvenile) |
190
|
|
Total
|
2795
|
| Value,
Stolen Items |
$1,189,041
|
| Value,
Recovered Items |
$734,945
|
| Percent
Recovered |
61.8%
|
|
|
Courtesy
Rides
|
155
|
|
Fingerprints
|
500
|
|
Unlock
Auto
|
596
|
|
Welfare
Check
|
174
|
|
Inspect
Auto
|
121
|
|
Other
|
619
|
|
Total
|
2165
|
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Unified
Crime Reports - City of Vestavia Hills
|
All
subsequent information is taken from the the Uniform Crime
Reporting (UCR) data published by the Alabama Criminal
Justice Information Center. The latest reported information
is for calendar year 2004. Crime Index is defined as the
sum of Violent Index Offenses and Property Index Offenses.
"UCR
data deals with criminal activity in a specific geographical
area rather than with law enforcement agencies' activities;
therefore it should not be used to evaluate or compare
one agency with another. UCR is only one aspect of the
activities and responsibilities of the law enforcement
community."
The
above quote is part of an introductory message from the
Center's Director, Maury Mitchell.
|
|
Unified
Crime Statistics, Vestavia Hills, Year 2004
|
|
OFFENSE
|
REPORTED
|
CLEARED
|
CLEARANCE
RATE
|
| Homicide* |
0
|
NA
|
NA
|
| Rape* |
1
|
0
|
0%
|
| Robbery* |
23
|
12
|
52%
|
| Assault* |
15
|
10
|
67%
|
| Burglary* |
77
|
3
|
4%
|
| Larceny* |
169
|
29
|
17%
|
| Car
Theft* |
49
|
11
|
22%
|
|
*Violent
Crime
|
*Property
Crime
|
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Cumulative
Unified Crime Statistics - City of Vestavia Hills Years 1998-2004
|
The
cumulative data have been analyzed and are presented graphically:
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Over
- The - Mountain Crime Experience
| The
"Over - The - Mountain" region of the Greater
Birmingham Area is the location of several municipalities.
To get a feel for the crime experience in this region, the
Unified Crime Statistics for the municipalities of Homewood,
Hoover, Mountain Brook and Vestavia Hills have been analyzed
and is presented here in graphic form. It should be noted
that the population figures for these municipalities (2000
Census) are as follows: |
|
Homewood
|
Hoover
|
Mountain
Brook
|
Vestavia
Hills
|
Vestavia
Hills*
|
|
25,043
|
62,742
|
20,604
|
24,476
|
32,000
|
|
*Estimated
population after annexation of Cahaba Heights in 2002
|
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