{"id":1291291,"date":"2024-01-20T10:40:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T16:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1291291"},"modified":"2024-01-22T16:31:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T22:31:36","slug":"longview-crime-stats-trending-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1291291","title":{"rendered":"Longview crime stats trending down"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONGVIEW \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \"\"Our news partners at KETK report that the Longview Police Department says 2023 is on track to have one of their lowest incidents of crime since the 1990\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, as they are still vetting the numbers. KETK spoke with the department to break down these numbers in this KETK investigation. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just not a violent city. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not that. If we ever were, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not that anymore,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Captain Darin Lair. <\/p>\n

As someone who has been with Longview PD for 33 years, Lair has seen all sorts of crime in the city, but he said many people exaggerate how bad it is. <\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We get a bad rap,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The general public, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll tell you that crime is out of control.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n

Because of this, he made an appearance on Longview PD\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new podcast, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Longview PD on Air,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to clear some things up, revealing some shocking statistics in the process. <\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are on track to be one of the lowest crime years we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had basically in modern Longview,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Lair explained. <\/p>\n

This amazed their Multimedia Development Specialist, Mikaila Vaughn. <\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You just assume we live in a crazy world where crime is the craziest it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ever been. So, to hear the actual crime is just shocking a little bit,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Vaughn. <\/p>\n

Lair spoke about the crime index in the city, which is made up of the following categories: <\/p>\n

Murder
\nRape
\nAssault
\nRobbery
\nBurglary
\nLarceny (Theft) <\/p>\n

In 1991, he says Gregg County\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest city reported 8,943 of these crimes, but in 2022 that number was 2,712. <\/p>\n

Why is it, then, that the perception for so many people is that crime has gone up? <\/p>\n

According to Lair, it is social media. <\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If someone sees something, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re taking a picture. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re posting it. The bad stories seem to get the clicks and get the likes,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he explained. <\/p>\n

As far as why the numbers have gone down, Lair did not really have an answer, but he said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The police have an effect on crime stats. They do. There are a lot of things that affect crime stats. So, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take credit for all of it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n

Because of this, he hopes his department\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s strategy can continue the decrease in crime in the coming years, but most of all, he wants people to view Longview as a safe place to live. <\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I just wish the world would realize it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not as crazy out there as they think it is,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LONGVIEW \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Our news partners at KETK report that the Longview Police Department says 2023 is on track to have one of their lowest incidents of crime since the 1990\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, as they are still vetting the numbers. KETK spoke with the department to break down these numbers in this KETK investigation. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just not a … Continue reading Longview crime stats trending down<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1291295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/01\/police-longview-shield-175x153.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Longview crime stats trending down","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1291291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 17:18:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/01\/police-longview-shield-175x153.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Longview crime stats trending down","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1291291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291294,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291291\/revisions\/1291294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1291295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1291291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1291291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1291291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}