City of Morgan Hill Public Safety Master Plan

TABLE 3-2: CFS Efficiency in Morgan Hill

MHPD vs. CPSM Comps

Morgan Hill

Variable Description

Mean

Minimum

Maximum

Population

67,745.7

5,417.0

83,3024.0

41,799

LOWER

Officers per 100,000 Population

201.2

35.3 32.4

465.1

85.4 71.1

HIGHER LOWER LOWER LOWER LOWER HIGHER HIGHER HIGHER HIGHER HIGHER HIGHER HIGHER HIGHER HIGHER HIGHER HIGHER HIGHER HIGHER

Patrol Percent

66.1

96.8

Index Crime Rate, per 100,000

3,235.1

405.0

9,418.8 1,415.4 8,111.6 6,894.2

1,628

VCR (Violent crime rate, per 100,000) PCR (Property crime rate, per 100,000)

349.3

12.5

156

2,885.9 1,004.8

379.7

1,472

CFS Rate

2.2 8.1

503

Avg. Service Time Police CFS Avg. Service Time Public CFS

17.7 28.7

47.3 42.9

19.3 30.8

16.0

Avg. # of Responding Units Police CFS Avg. # of Responding Units Public CFS Total Service Time Police CFS (officer-min.) Total Service Time Public CFS (officer-min.) Workload Percent Weekdays Winter Workload Percent Weekends Winter Workload Percent Weekdays Summer Workload Percent Weekends Summer

1.2 1.6

1.0 1.2

1.6 2.2

1.4 1.8

22.1 48.0 26.6 28.4 28.7 31.8 11.0 11.2

9.7

75.7 84.0 65.0 68.0 67.0 69.0 26.9 26.0 13.1

27.0 55.4 41.0 39.0 53.0 57.0 17.3 21.4

23.6

5.0 4.0 6.0 5.0 3.1 2.4 3.2

Average Response Time Winter Average Response Time Summer

High Priority Response Time

5.0

7.6

Patrol Deployment and Staffing Uniformed patrol is considered the “backbone” of American policing. Bureau of Justice Statistics indicate that more than 95 percent of police departments in the U.S. in the same size category as the Morgan Hill Police Department provide uniformed patrol. Officers assigned to this important function are the most visible members of the department and command the largest share of resources committed by the department. Proper allocation of these resources is critical in order to have officers available to respond to calls for service and provide law enforcement services to the public. Deployment Although some police administrators suggest that there are national standards for the number of officers per thousand residents that a department should employ, that is not the case. The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) states that ready-made, universally applicable

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