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Windsor, our neighor to the south, generally has lower crime rates than Detroit. But its latest stats for 2018 are reason for concern.
Violent crime in the city rose 13 percent, compared to 2017, with 2,452 incidents recorded -- the city’s second-highest rate for violent crimes in four years, Taylor Campbell of The Windsor Star reports.Ten of those were homicides, more than triple the number in 2017. Property crime also rose, with a 24-per-cent increase in 2018. Break-and-enter incidents were up 35 per cent.
“When you see trends happening, that’s when you have to respond,” Mayor Drew Dilkens, the police board’s chairman, said following the monthly Windsor Police Service Board meeting Friday where the stats were discussed.
“We were disturbed by some of the calls for service that we were seeing, and the increase in some of the categories, which we responded to by hiring additional officers,” Dilkens said.
Detroit had 261 homicides in 2018. Windsor's population is about 217,000. Detroit has less than 700,000 residents.
