GREENVILLE, Miss.–Greenville’s police chief is claiming success in getting a reduction in violent crime, shots fired calls and disturbance calls since the implementation of the city’s curfew five weeks ago.
Chief Marcus Turner told the Greenville City Council at Tuesday’s meeting that violent crime was down 51 percent, citing numbers that compared calls both before and after implementation of the curfew.
“We went back from January 21 until this present day and we did the numbers before the curfew and after the curfew,” said Turner. “There were 420 calls from January up until the curfew of shots fired within the city. Since the curfew has been implemented there have only been 47 calls of shots fired.”
According to numbers he presented, the average number of shots fired calls went from an average of 20 per week to 9 per week.
Turner said disturbance calls were also down.
“The Greenville Police Dept. had received 724 calls of disturbance within the city limits (from Jan. 1 until the curfew). Since the implementation of the curfew we have received only 47 calls of disturbance,” he said.
He did not provide numbers on actual shootings or violent crimes worked by his department for both periods.
