24 February 2022

Denver Police Response Time and Recidivism

Like many cities, Denver is suffering from a lack of police. Denver Police down 170 officers, Chief Paul Pazen says.

The details that are important are as follows.

  • The Denver PD is down about 10% in headcount of cops to answer 911 calls,
  • there are about 4% more calls coming in than the 3-year-baseline would indicate, and
  • In Denver PD's mind, a 12 minute response time to a 911 call is doing OK.

12 minutes is a long time to wait, if something bad is happening, assuming you can call 911 BEFORE the bad stuff starts happening. But that isn't what interested me in this article.

“How was it that 32 people in our city were killed? And the offender was on some form of supervision? That flies in the face of what supervision is supposed to be,” he said. “We need to get this figured out as quickly as possible because unfortunately people are being harmed in our community. Families are being destroyed by this type of activity.”

Because keeping violent offenders in jail is unfair, a number of them have been released on recognizance bonds, only to be arrested later in relation to a murder.

Oh, and that response time target that Denver PD had... They can't meet due to increase in calls and the decrease in officers. Response times have increased 18 percent.

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