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ORONO POLICE DEP'A RTMENT DATE: MARCH 2, 2010 TO: MELANIE CURTIS FROM: SCOTT BORIS RE: CRIME STATISTICS I have reviewed the database report from the Chaska Police Department. I have looked at the number and types of incidents that are normally associa ed with this area of Orono and I have concluded that if the Anna Weinstein house would oper:te at the proposed site then the increase in the number of calls would statistically insigni icant. We could anticipate a .007% increase in calls for service from this program. I have E-mailed Chief Knight from Chaska Police ask about any parking issues from the Chaska facility. As of this memo I have not heard back from Chief Knight. Chaska PD's report went from December 2000 through December 2009 and totaled 85 incidents all of which were non-criminal in nature. I was able to get data from Hennepin County regarding the number of calls for service in the area where the former Hill School is located. You will notice from the attached map the boundaries of this area. The data is from the Computer Aided Dispatch system (CAD) maintained by the county. Only calls that were generatld through this system by 911 calls or from an officer imputing a call in his/her squad computer will be in this report. For example if an officer made traffic stop and did not input the data into the squad computer then this stop would not be recorded. It would be rare for an officer not to input a call and therefore this data should be the most accurate we have available. The data is from 1999-2009. This particular patrol grid averages 1317 calls for service annually. There are a variety of call types to include medicals, fires, calls for service and crime reports and crimes in progress. When looking through the data starting in the year 1999 I have described the codes that are used for the various calls if the code was difficult to decipher. In 1997 you will see two listings for the same code. For example when looking at the number of 911 calls in 2007 you will see 15,then below that you will see 3. This is because Hennepin County was switching computer systems. So 15 911 calls happened before the switch and 3 happened after. When checking our local data base for the former Hill School we found that the police department responded to a total of 20 incidents between 1998-2007. I do not have breakdown on those individual calls.