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General News: Arrests, Summonses Up in Village
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| Chief Charles Williams. |
May 02, 2008
Police in Cornwall-on-Hudson were busy in 2007, according to New York State statistics released recently.
The number of traffic tickets nearly doubled from the previous year, with 491 tickets handed out to drivers in the village for offenses ranging from speeding to talking on a cell phone. In 2006, 254 traffic tickets were issued.
At the same time, larceny and criminal mischief incidents were down by as much as 58% from 2006. In 2006 there were 35 larcenies from parked cars, a figure that fell to 19 in 2007. Criminal mischief cases decreased from 41 in 2006 to 15 in 2007.
Cornwall-on-Hudson police chief Charles Williams says the drop in crime results in part from more aggressive police patrolling in 2007. “We were taken by surprise in 2006,” Williams said, referring to a string of larcenies from parked cars and other incidents that occurred that summer. “We started early in 2007 with patrols to meet specific problems.”
Chief Williams said that more arrests in 2007 were a result of police being more pro-active and finding more crimes in progress, such as during traffic stops. A total of 82 arrests were made by the village police department in 2007, compared with 68 in 2006.
Williams also said that the increase in traffic tickets was a direct response to input the department received from the public and the village board about the need to slow traffic down. Mayor Joe Gross, who took office in April 2007, frequently has said that he would like to see the village become more pedestrian-friendly.
Drivers who are stopped by the police in the village face an increased chance of getting a ticket and not simply a warning, Chief Williams said. “Where we may not have given a ticket in the past, we may now because warning weren’t working,” he noted.
In the first four months of this year, the department has handed out 135 traffic tickets and arrested 21 people on a variety of charges.
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I'm looking for help to drive a speed limit change on all residential streets in the village. I welcome all thoughts and support for a safer village please email me if you would like to get involved at [email protected]
I Buescher
posted by jcbike1 on 05/02/08 at 7:20 PM
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Keep up the good work. One thing I would like to see more of is tickets for talking on cell phones. up and down Hudson St. and see how many people you see on phones. Not a day goes by that at least one person talking on a cell phone will pull out in front of me from a side street. It seems to be worse when school is about to end for the day.
posted by j. cornish on 05/02/08 at 8:24 PM
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