City of Morgan Hill Public Safety Master Plan

emanating from the commercial establishments, to provide a more consistent and long-term approach to dealing with the crime, quality-of-life, and service demand issues that originate from this area. This would expand upon the current deployment of patrol units and motors, and any other resources the department chooses to deploy, in a coordinated approach to policing these areas. Conversely, many areas of the community see low levels of CFS volume. Indeed, the areas of the community that are NOT along major arteries or part of the downtown or commercial locations show very low call volume. On the plus side, the argument can be made that there are no problems in these areas in general, thus only a limited police presence is required. On the other hand, officers are initiating a small amount of calls in these “other” areas, which compromises a community policing philosophy that should be central to the department’s approach to policing the community.

Police Operations and Data Analysis Report, Morgan Hill, California

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