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Juvenile crime up,
police report says
By TIMOTHY YAGLE (vandals)," Hawkins said.
THERE WERE 26 rapes in 1978, an
Juvenile crimes reported in Ann Ar- increase of one over last year.
bor last year, including murder, rob- One hundred fifteen robberies oc-
bery, burglary, and assault, increased curred last year, compared to 150 in
by more than 50 per cent, according to 1977. Reported burglaries dropped from
the Ann Arbor Police Department 1,628in 1977 to 1,553 last year.
(AAPD) 1978 crime report. Juvenile The cases of reported arson
burglary rose almost 300 per cent over decreased slightly last year with 35,
the 1977 figures, stated the report. compared with 37 in 1977.
POLICE DEPARTMENT Executive THE NUMBER of arrests for disor-
Major Walter Hawkins attributes the derly conduct remained about the same
increase to a higher rate of school van- with 335 being stopped last year as op-
dalism and more citizens reporting posed to 338 two years ago, according to
crimes, the report.
The number of murders rose from There were also 32 reported purse
one in 1977 to five reported last year, snatchings, the study said, down 11
the study, which covered the period from 1977. Five area banks were robbed
Jan. 1-Dec. 31,1978, said, last year, up four from 1977.
The reason for the city's low The report stated a total of close to
homicide rate, Hawkins said, is $2.5 million worth of property was
because "We have a lot of good, honest stolen last year. The 1977 figure is
people. They are mostly crimes of slightly less than that. The amount of
passion." He added that no organized goods recovered in 1978 was about
crime exists in the city, which he said $650,000, noticeably different from the
helps to explain the relative lack of roughly $600,000 figure of 1977.
murders in the city. MALES CONTINUE to commit more
THE NUMBER of assaults, the study crimes than females, as in the past.
stated, dropped from 239 in 1977 to 235 in Females committed less than 10 per
1978. Roughly two-thirds of last year's cent of the total assaults, less than
assaults involved a weapon. three per cent of the burglaries, and
The only reported crime statistic less than 17 per cent of the robberies.
showing a significant change was van- "Males have always committed more
dalism, which increased from 1,236 in crimes than females. It really is (a
1977 to 1,627 last year. psychological question)," said
Hawkins explained that the increase Hawkins.
possibly is due to an increase in school Out of 351 people arrested for driving
vandalism, or that "There simply is under the influence of alcohol, 311 were
more reported vandalism. People are male. The results from 1977 are almost
more confident that we can catch them the same.
Council looks at budget
for parks, tax office
By JOHN GOYER
Computer. updating of city tax
records will allow the city assessor's of-
fice to complete an annual assessment
of all property in the city, according to
city asssessor Wayne Johnson.
The effort to review the city's tax
rolls every year comes in response to
an opinion by state Attorney General
Frank Kelley that Ann Arbor's old
system of reviewing half the city's
property each year was invalid.
JOHNSON ALSO attributed the start
of a yearly property assessment system
to the "rise in price in single family
dwellings."
Johnson, speaking before a city coun-
cil hearing on the proposed $43.8 million
1979-80 city budget, told the council that
using a computer to update tax records
would allow his department to divert
manpower toward making physical
assessments of property. The
assessor's office now can look at onlya
about half the property it assesses each
year. But, according to Johnson,- the
computer program would allow the of-
fice to both maintain that level of
physical assessment and assess all city
property annually.
The city will spend $40,000 to $50,000
for the computer program needed to
use the city's computer for tax
assessment, if city council approves the
assessor's office budget request for
$20,000.
IN A SIMILAR budget review session
Wednesday night, Councilwoman
Leslie Morris (D-Second Ward) called
for the phasing out of two staff positions
in the Department of Parks and
Recreation.
Morris said she thought one person,
who fills the position of Manager of
Field Services, would soon be retiring.
The other position Morris said she
wants phased out would be the Manager
of Park Planning position. Morris said
that the same person would perform the
job, but that the person would be hired
on a consultant basis, thereby saving
the city money.
IN SUPPORT of her argument to
phase out the planning position, Morris
said she wasn't sure city voters would
approve another bond issue for future
parks expansion.
Defending the parks development
division, George Walker of Parks and
Recreation, said, "The projects that we
have on board now and those that I have
a feeling we'll be getting necessitate
retaining the three people we've got."
At last night's meeting, Council
members also questioned Richard Weid
of the city's Municipal Garage Depar-
tment. Weid spoke up for a study
evaluating the city garage that claimed
employees of the Solid Waste Depar-
tment are abusing city vehicles
because of the incentive system, in
which they are paid on a unit-of-work
basis and not on an hourly basis.
Council members received a letter
from Ulysses Ford of the Solid Waste
Department, which said that on the
contrary the incentive plane en-
couraged employees to take care of the
vehicles, because if a vehicle broke
down, the operator would have to wait
around for it to be fixed, thus adding to
the length of the operator's workday.
City Council will review the proposed
city budget for another two weeks
before it suggests changes and finally
passes a budget in about three weeks.