It is a new way of reporting crime, tracking its category and location and keeping city council members and the public informed. A component of Fairburn Police Chief Charles Long’s Accountability Policing model, the new, weekly statistical analysis was presented to council members April 10.

“This is a new way of tracking and documenting serious crimes, quality of life calls, traffic accidents and other concerns,” Long explained. “The report is from the activities of our two teams, Adam and Baker, and shows their activities broken down into reporting tracks, or zones, within the city. The documentation provides weekly totals, 28-day totals and year-to-date totals from each of our two teams.”

Available to the public at city hall or at Fairburn Police Department beginning in May, Long detailed the three-page report. The first two pages provide a separate breakdown of the components of department’s two activity teams. The reports are divided into four basic categories and are broken into city zones, totaling nearly two dozen areas designed to pinpoint activity.

The categories include a range of serious crime, known as Part 1 Crimes. These include crimes such as aggravated assault, rape, murder, theft, vehicle theft, vehicle burglary, arson, robbery and burglary, each tracked by zone. A second category covers quality of life calls such as fights, simple assault and battery, alarms, noise and animal complaints, family violence and property damage. A third category covers traffic accidents while the final category documents items such as suspicious persons and vehicles and drug complaints. It is the numbers in this category that we want to go up, Long said, because that means we are investigating more activities.

Also included in the weekly team breakdowns are zone locations and the number of calls dispatched by 911 operators and those initiated by officers.

The final page of the report provides a weekly assessment of the documentation of both teams. That information is compared to the corresponding week in 2005. The report also shows a 28-day total and a year-to-date total, both comparing current totals to the corresponding periods in 2005. The combination report also tallies the number of dispatched and officer initiated calls by week, 28-day period and year-to-date along with police actions in unincorporated Fulton County and mutual aid assistance provided outside the city.

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