Operation Brownsville is over. Here are the stats:
Suspicious persons/vehicles: 480
– Citizen assists: 138
– Agency assists: 68
– Traffic Stops: 304
– Warrant service attempts: 22
– Warrant services: 32
– Traffic stop arrests: 13
– DUI arrests: 12
– Narcotics arrests: 37
– Weapons arrests: 1
– Prostitution arrests: 24
– Miscellaneous arrests: 8
– Miscellaneous calls: 1140
– Total arrests: 128
– Total calls: 1278
The daily has a nice feature on the end of ECSO effort to clean-up the 44-block area. Experts they interviewed stress the need for the residents and business owners to “take ownership” of the problem.
I think that neighborhood watch groups and “keep green” efforts are both worthwhile. BUT the residents and businesses have to be confident that the sheriff and county will respond timely to their calls. It’s not the fault of a 76-year-old homeowner that a drug dealer rents a house next door. Who will protect him if he complains about drugs being sold…..the other elderly couples on the block?
It’s not the elderly couple’s fault that a slumlord doesn’t take care of his properties. Will the county stay vigilant on enforcing the codes?
Over the 30 days of Operation Brownsville, there were only 24 prostitution and 37 narcotics arrests. The prostitutes and drug dealers moved somewhere and I think it wasn’t out of state. The conditions that entice people into those crimes still exist.
They will make another run at Brownsville and test the waters.
Will the ECSO and the county be ready to help the area stop them?