Trending in the right direction

Homicides in Houston are down fourteen percent from last year (via the Chronicle):

Between Jan.1 and Sept. 17 last year, the city's homicide count was 290, Police Chief Harold Hurtt said.

In the same period this year, "we've had 248, for a reduction of 14.48 percent," Hurtt said last week. Houston recorded 248 homicides this year through Sept. 17, compared to 290 at this time last year.

Hurtt reviewed Houston crime statistics in a regular monthly press conference last week.

"Total violent crime in January through August 2007, versus 2006, is down 4.9 percent," Hurtt said.

This is very good news, for Houstonians as well as for Houston's hard-working police officers. Let's hope this trend keeps heading in the same direction.

Posted by Anne Linehan @ 09/24/07 07:30 PM | Houston Miscellany | Technorati | Sphere | Comments (7)

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