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Let’s Communicate!

Jim Romine, Executive Director

Safety in Sun City Texas

When I was writing my May article for Sun Chart 1 shows crime totals for each of the four cities in 2013 as reported
Rays about safety in Sun City Texas, I did to the Texas UCR plus data for Sun City. As previously noted, Sun
not have crime statistics to share with the City crime is not reported separately from the City of Georgetown but
community at that time. Since then, Assistant Police is included in Georgetown’s crime totals to the Texas UCR. Sun City
Chief Cory Tchida of the Georgetown Police Depart- crime is presented separately in the chart for this analysis and that
ment has provided me with crime statistics about Sun data is also included in Georgetown’s crime totals.
City and Georgetown to share with our community.
It is reassuring and comforting to work with such a Chart 1
talented police team as Georgetown’s and to know
our community continues to be a safe one. Please see 2013 Crime Stats
the report on crime statistics to the right.
Table 3 lists the 2014 crime to-
The report was prepared in response to the commu- tals for Sun City and the City of
nity’s request for an analysis about local crime. In Georgetown. These totals were
this report, a comparison was made using statistics extracted from the Georgetown
reported to the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Police Department’s Records
Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) system and George- Management System that is used
town police’s computer-assisted dispatch system for to report monthly crime totals to
the 2013 calendar year. Crime statistics for 2014 are the Texas UCR System program.
not yet available through the Uniform Crime Report-
ing system. The report compares Sun City and the
city of Georgetown with other Texas cities of similar
population and demographics. The other cities used
for comparison were Cedar Park, New Braunfels and
Pflugerville. In addition, an analysis for calendar
year 2014 was done that compares crime in Sun City
with crime for all of the City of Georgetown. The fol-
lowing tables and chart provide the results of these
reports plus population information.

Table 1 shows the estimated population for 2013 as re-
ported by the U.S. Census Bureau for the listed cities.

Table 2 shows the number of incidents and offenses Table 4 shows the total number of calls received by the Georgetown
that occurred for the 2013 calendar year and were Police Department’s dispatch for the entire city of Georgetown compared
reported to the Texas Uniform Crime Reporting to calls received by
program. Sun City crime data is separated from Georgetown police
Georgetown for the purpose of this report and listed from Sun City resi-
in the table. Georgetown crime numbers include Sun dents and business-
City crime data. es only.

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