The Port Jervis Police Department plans to enhance crime data collection and analysis to develop more effective policing strategies this year, according to police chief William Worden.
The department is partnering with the Albany-based John F. Finn Institute for Public Safety to dive deep into the city’s data and produce monthly reports.
“I truly believe that data—data that is simple to comprehend and actionable—will help us better focus our activities and turn around some of these increases of violence we are seeing,” he said.
In the past year, the number of aggravated assaults in the city jumped by 48 percent compared to 2021, weapons offenses by 20 percent, robberies by 20 percent, and arrests by nearly a quarter….