Cd’A crime rate continues decline

When Lee White talks about his department, he gushes.

It is the men and women under his employ who have stemmed the city’s crime rate, resulting in a drop like a black diamond ski slope.

In the last three years, according to the department, crime in Coeur d’Alene dropped 14 percent from 2014 to 2015, 4 percent the following year, and 22 percent so far this year, White said.

The Coeur d’Alene chief of police, stout and terrier-like wearing desert colored boots and cargo pants, attributes the dramatic drop in crime in the city to the uniformed men and women under his command.

“They don’t usually blow their own horn, so I am going to,” White said.

In the last four years, White and department heads including captains, sergeants and detectives, as well as the department’s patrol division and the men and women behind the scenes, he said, have developed a system to find bad guys that can be compared with patterning white-tailed deer, or chasing spring chinook. Full story. Ralph Bartholdt CdAPress