The excitement for community policing has quieted during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the progress moves forward.
The period of fewer public gatherings, fewer face-to-face interactions, and less of a feeling of community as people stay home, will pass. When it does, the Lubbock Police Department will have a greater presence in the communities it serves.
Lubbock s three police patrol division stations are nearing completion.
According to a recent presentation to the Lubbock City Council, the first division station located near 19th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard should be occupied by the end of June, 2021.
“It’s my hope that these division stations become a community meeting place, a place for us to connect with each other, a place to sit down and talk, and laugh over how much we are alike,” Police Chief Floyd Mitchell said at the groundbreaking ceremony in 2019. “A place to openly and honestly discuss our differences, and demonstrate how we can all co-exist des
City Manager defends VIP protection for council members to provide âcontinuity of governmentâ
City Manager defends VIP protection for Latrelle Joy By Kasie Davis | January 21, 2021 at 7:33 PM CST - Updated January 21 at 10:27 PM
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Lubbock City Councilwoman Latrelle Joy has been accused of using officers from the Lubbock Police Department as her personal security detail during an out of town trip.
The KCBD Investigative team continues to look into this possible inappropriate use of Lubbock Police Department resources. Specifically, how this approval effects the average Lubbock taxpayer.
Why would city officials authorize tax funds for police protection for a council member at a private out of town event?
Wrap-up of Work Session included 2020 police operations and vaccine discussion
Wrap-up of Work Session included 2020 police operations and vaccine discussion By Melanie Camacho | January 12, 2021 at 10:46 PM CST - Updated January 12 at 10:53 PM
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Tuesdayâs virtual work session with councilmembers highlighted a busy year for the Lubbock Police Department with a 105 percent increase in homicides from the year prior and councilmembers discussed the future of the vaccine in Lubbock, saying a growing and steady number of vaccines will make their way to the Hub City.
Lubbock Police Chief Floyd Mitchell and other leaders spoke on violent crimes against persons such as rape, robbery and aggrivated assault, saying the numbers went down and so did property crimes. Property crimes decreased by 11 percent with more than 11 thousand calls responded to. Lubbock Police leaders attributed this to more people at home during the pandemic.
When Lubbock Police Chief Floyd Mitchell looks at the crime data from 2020, he sees a lot of statistics trending down.
Total home burglaries were down 13% compared to 2019 s totals, thefts from motor vehicles were down 10%, and destruction or vandalism was down 3%. These are all property crimes, and all together, property crimes were down 11% compared to the year prior.
Chief Mitchell says COVID-19 may have been a factor in this. A lot of people were at home, so their houses did not get burglarized, Mitchell said. It s hard for us to pinpoint exactly what caused this 11% decrease right now, but that s what we believe was the biggest cause of that people were at home.