Story posted Thursday, November 5, 2009
Burglaries Boost Local Crime Rate
The total crime rate for Cook County increased between 2007 and 2008, a trend echoed in Rolling Meadows.
For the county, 2008 saw an increase of 2.4% in reported crimes including murder, criminal sexual assault, robbery, battery, burglary, theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson compared to 2007. Of the listed offenses, murder increased 11.9% while robberies, burglaries, and thefts all went by by between 2.4% and 6.5%. The other categories decreased slightly, arson dropping the most by 7.6%. There was also a drop of 15% in drug crime arrests between the two years.
In Rolling Meadows, the crime rate increased by about 6%, almost all of it represented by burglaries that leapt 161.5% from 39 incidents in 2007 to 102 in 2008. The number of criminal sexual assaults also increased from five to nine between the two years.
All other categories decreased: robberies went from 14 to five, aggravated assaults and batteries dropped from 34 to 28, theft lowered from 406 to 396, thefts of motor vehicles went from 23 to 16, and arsons decreased from seven to two.
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