{"id":25746,"date":"2025-04-29T13:09:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T17:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=25746"},"modified":"2025-04-29T13:09:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T17:09:22","slug":"decatur-pd-calls-show-large-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/decatur-pd-calls-show-large-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Decatur PD calls show large increase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Calls handled by the Decatur Police Department in March showed a significant increase over the previous month, according to the department&#8217;s monthly report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The department responded to 1,003 calls in March, an increase of 235 calls over the previous month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Traffic enforcement and building checks represented the two largest hikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"283\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Decatur-PD-front.jpg?resize=640%2C283&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Decatur-PD-front.jpg?resize=1024%2C452&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Decatur-PD-front.jpg?resize=300%2C132&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Decatur-PD-front.jpg?resize=768%2C339&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Decatur-PD-front.jpg?resize=1536%2C678&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Decatur-PD-front.jpg?w=2004&amp;ssl=1 2004w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Decatur-PD-front.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Decatur-PD-front.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The calls include a mix of emergency and non-emergency responses including, but not limited to, traffic stops, traffic-related<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>criminal offenses, vehicle accidents, and a variety of other traffic-related concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also included are property crimes, crimes against a person(s), and long-term investigations, as well as non-criminal issues such as VIN (vehicle inspection numbe) checks, civil disputes, animal complaints, vehicle unlocks, and neighbor complaints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the first three months of the year, the department has received 2,577 calls for service, an average of 859 calls per month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com Calls handled by the Decatur Police Department in March showed a significant increase over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,21],"class_list":["post-25746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25748,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25746\/revisions\/25748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}