{"id":29209,"date":"2025-09-15T19:28:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T23:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=29209"},"modified":"2025-09-15T19:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T23:28:17","slug":"police-service-calls-down-then-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/police-service-calls-down-then-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Police service calls down, then up"},"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>The Decatur Police Department saw a major decrease in calls for service in June, but an increase in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>June&#8217;s calls, according to the department, totaled 1,134, 512 fewer than in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>July&#8217;s calls amounted to 1,293, a jump of 159 over the previous month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"140\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DecaturPolice.jpg?resize=140%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3497\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first seven months of the year (through July), the department has handled 8,215 calls for service, an average of 1,174 per month.<\/p>\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 criminal offenses, vehicle accidents, and a variety of other traffic related concerns, the report said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number also includes property crimes, crimes against a person(s), and long-term investigations as well as non-criminal issues such as, VIN (vehicle inspection number) checks, civil disputes, animal complaints, vehicle unlocks, and neighbor complaints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com The Decatur Police Department saw a major decrease in calls for service in June,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3497,"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-29209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DecaturPolice.jpg?fit=140%2C150&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29209","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=29209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29210,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29209\/revisions\/29210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}