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A Report to Our Citizens 2021 (Released February 17, 2022) Mission We make safer places for you to live, work and play. 2021 Highlight The City of Star hired Jada Butterfield to be our new Administrative Assistant for the Star Police Department. That means you’ll have easier access to us by having Jada in the office, Monday through Friday, to answer phone calls and welcome walk-ins. Jada will also help us organize data and crime trend reports, order and purchase supplies, and support our staff so our officers can spend more time in town. The City of Star also added two patrol officers to increase the officer-to-citizen ratio. This allows us to have more officers in the community at our busiest time for a better response to calls and increased officer safety. This report provides a good snapshot of how our rapid population gain in Star has not brought higher crime rates with it, so that is good news. Check it out If you want to get an idea of what is happening in our town. Message from Star Police Chief Zach Hessing We would like to thank the residents of Star for their unwavering support of law enforcement. It is a privilege to serve such a great community as we work with one another to keep our crime rate low and each other safe. 2021 was a year of change. The ongoing challenges of COVID-19 kept us all apart more than I would like. Like the rest of the Treasure Valley, we’re having some growing pains — but I am thrilled say the City of Star still has that small town feel of helping one another and looking out for our neighbors. The Star Police Department remains committed to working hard, enforcing the laws that keep our community safe, helping our citizens solve problems when we’re able, and keeping a great relationship with our community. We look forward to 2022 and working with all of you to make Star a safer place to live, work and play. CRIME AND CLEARANCE CRIMES BY TYPE Crimes per 1,000 residents Percent of crimes solved Star Populations are based on COMPASS population estimates, April 2021 *State of Idaho Clearance % estimate, 5-4-2020. 2019 2020 2021* Person Cases 48 50 56 Person Felony 18 26 19 Person Misdemeanor 30 24 37 Supplemental on Persons Case 15 18 8 Property Cases 114 123 78 Property Felony 70 62 40 Property Misdemeanor 44 61 38 Supplemental on Property Case 46 33 3 On cases with both a Felony and Misdemeanor the Felony was counted as a count of cases not a count of offenses. *2021 Data is through November 2021 as of January 11, 2022; at this time there are hundreds of unprocessed Supplemental reports needing to be validated. 22.2 20.9 17.4 17.5 0 5 10 15 20 25 2017 2018 2019 2020 43.3% 61.8% 59.3% 53.8% 49.5% 51.5% 51.7% 55.1% 2017 2018 2019 2020 Star State of Idaho Reporting Crimes: State of Idaho Law enforcement agencies in Idaho report crime within their jurisdictions to the Idaho State Police under the National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS). They conform with definitions, rules and guidelines for reporting into the three categories of Persons Crime, Property Crimes, and Society Crimes. This allows for reliability of statistics and to inform the public about the nature of crime problems. ---PAGE BREAK--- Data references: CAD Data is from CAD SQL database, Offense and Arrests from RMS database: Ada County Sheriffs Office Training and Specialties City Population Budget 21-22 Officer Count Cost per Resident Garden City 12,570 $ 5,133,397.00 26 $408.38 Boise 241,590 $ 71,179,598.00 300 $294.63 Unincorporated 60,820 $ 14,388,401.00 68 $236.57 Nampa 110,980 $ 25,148,723.00 144 $226.61 Meridian 127,890 $ 24,036,074.00 129 $187.94 Caldwell 63,760 $ 11,067,230.00 73 $173.58 Star 13,400 $ 1,518,780.41 10 $113.34 Eagle 34,470 $ 3,572,671.12 24 $103.65 Kuna 27,570 $ 2,715,073.17 18 $98.48 Average 77,006 $ 17,639,994.19 88 $204.80 Star Budget Breakdown % Personnel 89.9% Vehicles 6.1% Operational 1.2% Equipment / Uniforms 2.3% Support Total Star Police Cost $ 1,633,097.21 Shared Services Credit $ (114,316.80) Net Star Police Contract $ 1,518,780.41 Star Calls 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Community Call 1,236 1,342 2,132 2,615 2,207 Officer Initiated 6,655 5,464 6,452 6,745 5,727 Total 7,891 6,806 8,584 9,360 7,934 Priority Calls 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 P3 – Emergency 11 26 38 22 34 P3-Avg Response (MM:SS) 2:13 4:26 3:18 3:28 2:07 P2 - High Priority 2,787 2,555 3,007 2,887 2,539 P1-0 - Low Priority 5,093 4,225 5,539 6,451 5,361 Call Activity / Arrest 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Case Arrests* 163 246 167 98 74 Traffic Crash Calls 78 57 106 121 132 DUI Calls 55 63 102 89 89 Crisis/Mental Hold/ Suicide type Calls 44 51 51 50 50 Narcotic Type Calls 19 10 9 12 7 Juvenile Issues Calls 54 83 92 101 149 School Security Calls 160 309 450 444 453 Offense Type 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Mental Hold Cases* 12 17 17 20 14 *At the time of this report these data, in NIBRS, are compiled through November 2021. Star Police Team Administrative Assistant Jada Butterfield Blue Team Deputy Derick Brashears Deputy Jon Cleveland Deputy Dale Morehouse Deputy Jacob Breckon Silver Team Deputy Michael Henderson Deputy Jason Woodcook Deputy Robert Denney Deputy Austin Eckhardt Detectives Detective Jonathan Steele – Property Crimes Detective Ashley Turner – Person Crimes School Resource Officers Detective Rob Fowler The Star Police Department is fortunate to have 1 SWAT Deputy, 2 Emergency Vehicle Operation Course Instructors, Crisis Negotiator, Honor Guard, 2 Drone Operators, 3 Patrol Training Officers, Fraud investigator, 2 Trained Acting Field Commander’s, Breath Test Specialist, 2 Crime Scene Investigator’s, US Marshall Task Force, Defensive Tactics Instructor, Cell Phone Investigations, Interview Techniques, Commercial Vehicle Specialist, Patrol, and a Fusion Liaison Officer (Intelligence).