by Jim Scarantino | Aug 2, 2020 | Politics
Former Port Townsend Free Press contributor Scott Hogenson has an article in the August 2, 2020 edition of the Wall Street Journal. Scott and his family have moved to Texas. But he and his wife received ballots inviting them to vote in the August 4 primary election—in Jefferson County, Washington.
The WSJ story is paywall protected (sorry) at this link.
The Hogensons lived on Mats Mats Bay until late spring this year when they moved to Texas. As he points out, the fact they received Jefferson County ballots raises the question of how many nonresidents are voting in Washington state and local elections. The Hogensons won’t be among them. They know that would be fraud.
The article explores the problems with vote by mail. Hogenson writes, “Even if every bureaucrat and election volunteer involved in every part of the process of vote by mail was honest and efficient, it is still fraught with problems. In my case, I don’t suspect any sort of malfeasance on the part of election officials. It takes time to purge voter rolls and it’s entirely reasonable for this to not happen in the month between my moving away from Washington state and receiving my ballot in Texas.”
Two votes here, two votes there, two more over yonder. They could be enough to decide an election, for example the recent neck-and-neck Hospital Commission and PUD races.
The featured photo for this story is a shot of the envelope delivered to Hogenson’s house.
In an email to The Port Townsend Free Press, Hogenson writes: “I did not mention this issue [in the WSJ article] but a look at the envelope shows that it is labeled ‘Address Service Requested.’ Because this is an election ballot with a number of federal, state and local issues, shouldn’t the envelope be labeled, ‘Change Service Requested,’ or ‘Return Service Requested’ so the ballot is returned to the sender instead of being sent to an ineligible voter?”
The point of his questions is that when the Jefferson County Auditor’s staff sent the ballot with “Address Service Requested,” it gets forwarded, in this case to an illegible voter. If Jefferson County election officials had instead requested “Change Service Requested and “Return Service Requested,” the ballots would have been returned to sender and not delivered in Texas. But because county election officials sent this and presumably other ballots out with the “Address Service Requested” instruction people no longer living in Jefferson County can vote in county elections.
From the USPS website:
- Address Service Requested provides forwarding and address correction services when possible. If the mail is undeliverable and not forwardable, it is returned to the sender with the reason identified on the mailpiece.
- Change Service Requested provides address correction services without forwarding or return. If undeliverable, either the new address or the reason it is undeliverable is provided to the sender.
- Return Service Requested provides address correction services and always returns the piece.
Because the Auditor’s Offices is now closed, I am unable to publish their response to the story. I will update this as soon as I can contact them.
UPDATE: I sent an email the morning of 8/3/2020 asking for comment and have yet to receive a reply.
by Jim Scarantino | Aug 1, 2020 | Politics
Illegal immigration hurts Black Americans. The evidence is overwhelming and incontrovertible.
Port Townsend’s liberal elite wanted to jump on the sanctuary city bandwagon. In March 2017 City Council declared the city to be a “welcoming city” and directed local government and law enforcement to deny cooperation to federal immigration and border security agencies. They also prohibited police from cooperating with the federal authorities who battle human trafficking–an abhorrent form of modern-day slavery that sadly exists even here on the Olympic Peninsula.
Liberal elites embracing policies that hurt Blacks while also hampering the fight against modern-day slavery–these are yet more manifestations of the systemic racism that runs through Port Townsend’s ruling elites. In the first installment of this series we examined how Port Townsend’s liberals have celebrated Black Genocide. In the second we examined how they have embraced slavery in the cobalt mines of the Congo in order to power their green cars.
“Black Lives Matter” is painted in fading letters on the street outside City Hall. Those words may be worth less to the self-described liberal, progressive politicians behind the old brick walls than the $500 they allocated to buy the paint and declare themselves virtuous for a day.
“The white liberal is the worst enemy to America, and the worst enemy to the black man.” Malcolm X
Illegal Immigration Hurts Black Americans
There is “little doubt” that illegal immigration hurts Black Americans. That was the testimony in 2008 of Vernon Briggs, Professor Emeritus of Labor Economics at Cornell University before the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Black Americans are the “major loser” to illegal immigration. Because most Black Americans seek to enter the workforce through lower paying and lower skilled jobs, they find themselves having to compete with illegal aliens who depress wages and compete unfairly. While Black citizens work subject to state and federal wage and occupational safety laws and regulations, illegal aliens commonly work under the radar of those same laws.
The influx of millions of illegal immigrants has worsened the economic standing of Black Americans, a conclusion reached through research conducted by Dr. Augustine Kposowa (1995) of the University of Delaware and David Howell and Elizabeth J. Mueller of the New School for Social Research (1998).
Recent research has confirmed the findings of decades ago. The economic displacement of Black workers, particularly Black men, contributes to disproportionately high incarceration rates for lower income Black Americans. Dr. George Borjas and his team of researchers from Harvard’s Kennedy School, after examining four decades of data, concluded:
As immigrants disproportionately increased the supply of workers in a particular skill group, the wage of black workers in that group fell, the employment rate declined, and the incarceration rate rose. Our analysis suggests that a 10-percent immigrant-induced increase in the supply of a particular skill group reduced the black wage by 4.0 percent, lowered the employment rate of black men by 3.5 percentage points, and increased the incarceration rate of blacks by almost a full percentage point.
These adverse impacts on Blacks are exacerbated by illegal immigration.
The top six sectors for illegal immigrant labor–farming, maintenance, construction, food service, production and material moving–are also sectors that each employ hundreds of thousands of Black Americans. “Illegal immigration hurts low-skilled, low-wage workers of all races,” says Professor Carol Swain of Vanderbilt Law School in Debating Immigration.“The greatest competition occurs among people at the margins of society; a multi-racial group that includes poorly educated blacks, whites and Hispanics who compete against each other and against new immigrants for low-wage, low-skill jobs.”
“But Blacks,” Swain concludes, “are hurt the most because they are disproportionately low-skilled.”
Dr. Carol Swain
Swain, who has withstood reprisals for her research, adds that any parallel between the Black civil rights movement and immigrant interests is weak. “Most illegal immigrants have willingly left their homelands to seek their fortunes in a more prosperous nation. They were not brought in chains.”
U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow, who has also served on the National Labor Relations Board, for years has highlighted the disproportionately adverse impacts of illegal immigration on Black Americans, particularly young Black men who suffer the highest unemployment and incarceration rates of any demographic.
“Forty percent of the decline in labor participation rates among black workers over three decades was attributable to competition from illegal immigration. The figure comes to nearly 1 million fewer jobs for black Americans as a result of the competition from illegal immigrants.” U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow
Peter Kirsanow
Blacktradesman.com documented how, using data focusing on Texas, illegal immigration has destroyed high-wage jobs for Black construction workers. “Texas black tradesmen have had it worst off as tradesmen of other states, due to more than half of the state’s construction industry being made up of illegal aliens.”
The Anti-Black Racism of Port Townsend’s City Council
On March 27, 2017, the Port Townsend City Council unanimously declared the city to be a sanctuary city. They chose, for PR purposes, the phrase “welcoming” instead of “sanctuary,” but the intent and result were the same. The Port Townsend City Council embraced and directed that the city and all its employees, including police, condone, protect and promote illegal immigration.
During the debate councilors professed to be thoroughly informed on the issue of illegal immigration. No one engaged in the debate about illegal immigration can claim to be unaware of the harmful impact of illegal immigration on Black workers.
The Port Townsend City Council just didn’t care. It was more important to them to burnish their liberal, progressive cred than to stand with Black workers against lawlessness that keeps them chronically un- and under-employed and confined to urban plantations of hopelessness and despair.
Not bothering to pause to consider the impact of their actions on Black Americans is a manifestation of systemic racism. It means Black Americans did not matter enough for their concerns to even enter the Councilors’ deliberations. Black workers and their interests were invisible and meaningless to these liberal, progressive politicians.
A goal of the Black Lives Matter movement is increasing economic opportunity for Black Americans. The Port Townsend City Council lined itself up squarely with one of the major forces that has been suffocating Black economic aspirations for decades. Those words on the street outside City Hall are indeed just fading paint.
Welcome Human Traffickers!
The resolution adopted by Port Townsend City Council instructs police not to cooperate with the Customs and Border Protection agencies of the Department of Homeland Security or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It also asks the Sheriff not only to deny those agencies information, but also to advise persons in its custody that they do not have to talk with those agencies.
The agencies whose jobs City Council wants to frustrate are the agencies that lead the fight against human trafficking.
Immigration enforcement is one of the strongest and most effective tools against human trafficking. Indeed the essential key to combating human trafficking is border security and enforcement of immigration laws. Slavers and smugglers are, after all, importing human beings illegally into this country for sex work and forced labor. Port Townsend City Council does not want those federal legal weapons against human trafficking being used here.
The first question asked in a human trafficking investigation is whether the slave–a child, woman or man–is here legally. Traffickers and smugglers bring their merchandise into this country by violating our immigration and border security laws. Port Townsend City Council believes that line of inquiry should not be permitted. They are substantially aiding and abetting any human trafficker who chooses to operate or pass through here.
Don’t think for one minute that our community is far removed from the horrors of human trafficking. The victims of that trade in human life are not members of the white elite. Human trafficking is a terrible problem in Seattle and surrounding areas. Human trafficking cases prosecuted by federal authorities in Washington have more than doubled in recent years. This surge in forced sex work and manual labor has fueled extensive sex and forced labor rings. Closer to home, the very agencies Port Townsend’s City Council detests and want to cripple saved a man and woman from forced labor and sex slavery in neighboring Clallam County. Local law enforcement asked about the woman’s immigration status, leading to the involvement of federal immigration authorities and the end of their bondage. And it was immigration enforcement that tripped up a Jefferson County man who had imported a young Filipino girl so he could rape and hold her as his sex slave. (We wrote about that case in a series of articles that can be picked up at this link).
For a town that wants to see itself as cutting-edge progressive, we have a strange contradiction with activists insisting that we all buy cars dependent on cobalt mined by African slaves, local officials endorsing Black Genocide and a local government providing sanctuary for those who profit from human trafficking. Welcome to Port Townsend, Victorian seaport and arts community.
by Jim Scarantino | Jul 31, 2020 | General
It is time for us to say, “Thank you!” We started this modest effort at citizen journalism a little over two years ago. We were forced to take last year off to deal with personal and professional business matters, and just resumed active publishing in January of this year. Nonetheless, we passed the 100,000 page-view milestone several thousand page-views back.
Our daily numbers on our WordPress and Facebook platforms are way up. We had to upgrade the website this month because the additional traffic was slowing things down (especially on our end when it came to editing). Where we once were pleased with getting a hundred readers per article, we are now regularly seeing readership for major articles in the thousands.
This is all thanks to you. You stuck with us through an effort in 2018 to drive us off the Internet. You backed us up when we were getting personal threats. You waited out our dormant year until we returned. You have shared our articles and spread the word.
People are reading our work regularly even though they won’t show up on our pages for fear of retaliation in a community that too often punishes diversity instead of celebrating it. I have spoken with public officials who tell me, “I read you stuff, but don’t tell anyone. They’ll get mad.” At a restaurant, where I had met with one of our new copy editors, after my credit card was run the owners came out from the kitchen to thank us for our work with the words,”No one else is speaking up for us.” We are getting more and more direct communications from people wanting us to write their stories–stories the Leader ignores or distorts. We wish we had more contributors so we could do a better job of stepping up to the challenge.
I want to thank our contributors so far in this adventure. They make it possible to say “we” and “us” and they have brought the very sort of diverse voices missing from our local newspapers. That was our goal from the beginning:
Brett Nunn
Mike Howard
Scott Hogenson
Sky Hardesty
Ravyn
Gene Farr
Jim McEntire
Craig Durgan
Tod Brundage
Kara Kellogg
And a new contributor, Z Cerveny, who has been documenting the sad state of Port Townsend’s streets. Her work will begin appearing next week as we sort through the mass of images she sent us.
A special note of appreciation goes to two people who had something to say, and no place to say it except here. While we prefer to publish contributors under their real names, we understand why in such a small, insular, politically unbalanced community it may be necessary to use a nome de plume to say something that needs to be said. Thank you, therefore, to the city employee who contributed years of knowledge and experience on identifying and understanding who the homeless in our community really are. And thank you to “A Concerned Citizen of Port Townsend” who, curious about just what the Black Lives Matter organization is, took the time to do research and share the results with our readers. When she sent us her article she probably did not expect it would go viral and be read across the nation.
Last, thanks to the unseen people behind the scenes: Dynamic Graphics of Sequim, which moved us from our old BlogSpot home, designed a new website, and manages our technical matters; and our volunteer copy editors–man, do we need and appreciate your help.
We are always open to new contributions. You know your community better than the itinerant reporters who come and go quickly from The Leader. You know how to reach us.
by Jim Scarantino | Jul 29, 2020 | Politics
No police brutality. No court judgments for racial profiling or wrongful arrest. No Department of Justice investigations or complaints by civil rights groups that our police have systematically, even occasionally targeted minority citizens.
It is widely recognized that we have a great police force that does its job very well. We have had no officer involved shootings since 1995, when police had to defend themselves against a man who had just shot another member of the community.
But wanting to show they are in step with the BLM and the “defund the police” movement, councilors have launched an ad hoc committee of the full council to explore “alternatives to law enforcement.” Ideas to be considered range from cutting the police budget to replacing police with social workers to disarming police or requiring them to keep handguns in the trunks of their patrol cars “until needed.”
Port Townsend police pride themselves on having adopted a “progressive” policing model a decade ago. Officers follow the rules and there has been no cause for severe discipline in recent years. The last officer to be disciplined left the force years ago. In the only recent case requiring outside review of use of force, the officer involved was cleared.
Chokeholds and strangleholds are prohibited except when lethal force is justified (e.g., an assailant has overpowered and is about to kill an officer). Officers are not permitted to shoot at or from moving vehicles except in the most extreme cases.
The Port Townsend Police Department has developed its own Crisis Intervention Training program. It far exceeds state standards. Officers must pass ten separate examinations. The only way to pass is to get every question 100% right.
An innovative R.A.D. Protocol was developed by a PTPD officer and an East Jefferson Fire Department chief in 2015. The Rage, Aggression, Delirium Protocol synthesizes police and medical responses to persons in crisis to resolve physical threats through medical intervention. It has been employed 76 times and is being studied as a model approach by other agencies.
PTPD officers undergo more training in de-escalation and alternatives to use of force than required by other departments. Internal policies require officers proactively to intercede to stop the use of excessive force by other officers. All officers wear body cameras. Every use of force is reviewed by supervisors. The police department already has a social worker on staff, as well as an unarmed community services officer.
Understaffed, with the city every day being patrolled at times by only a single officer working with no possibility of timely back up, they have kept our community–and themselves–safe. Crime and violence have soared around us in neighboring counties and Port Townsend is not Mayberry RFD. See our article on the surprising levels of crime here. Our city has its daily incidents of violence, plentiful property theft, and a severe drug and alcohol problem that is seldom acknowledged. But because of the high levels of skill and sensitivity of our police, many people in our community mistakenly believe we are virtually crime-free.
If It Aint’ Broke, What’s To Fix?
City Council may undo a decade of good work and draw opportunistic criminals to our community. In the first meeting of their ad hoc committee, city councilors revealed their factual ignorance about law enforcement.[You may watch the video at this link]. They are generally unaware of what police do. Only one city councilor has taken the opportunity to ride along with police to learn the challenges facing an officer patrolling alone. Councilors also revealed how uninformed they are about crime and violence in our city. Yet, they believe they are competent and wise enough to recreate law enforcement in an even “more progressive” way.
Interim Police Chief Troy Surber presented a report entitled “21st Century Policing.” It discussed how in response to former President Obama’s national task force on policing, Port Townsend police undertook substantial reforms of their own a decade ago.
It also revealed how seriously understaffed our department is. Two of its officers are still in training and not permitted to patrol alone. PTPD does not have enough sworn personnel to keep two patrol officers and a supervisor on duty at all times. That level of staffing is needed to avoid resorting to lethal force. A patrol officer facing a threat alone may have no alternative but to use his weapon to protect himself and others. In numbers, police can use less lethal means. But that also means exposing themselves to physical injury.
Chief Surber told Council how six officers were required to restrain an individual undergoing a mental health crisis that endangered the safety of hospital personnel. Without that number of officers, he said, it is likely lethal force would have been needed. Even with six officers on him, this individual managed to injure two of them to the extent they had to be removed from active duty. One officer remains unable to return to work three months later.
It would have been easier to shoot the assailant. Instead Port Townsend police employed their training to take a softer approach, but one that resulted in serious injury to themselves. That is the risk they take every time they don’t draw their weapon and instead use their bodies to resolve a confrontation.
Any reduction in the number of officers means the city is more likely to see isolated officers working without support and having to employ higher levels of force when confronted with threats to themselves and others.
Officers patrolling alone are always exposed to harm. Approaching a stopped vehicle is one of the most dangerous things an officer can do–so dangerous the Supreme Court of the United States has recognized that officers must be granted particularized exceptions to the Fourth Amendment. Yet some on city council would increase the risk to officers by stripping from them the ability to defend themselves when the occupant(s) of the vehicles pull out weapons or otherwise attack officers.
An officer acting alone at a traffic stop can lose his life if he is unable immediately to neutralize the threat. The idea of making him do his job with the tools he needs locked in his trunk is, in a word, insane. It devalues the lives of our officers. But it is a proposal city council has discussed.
Reason For Concern
The people who want to remake law enforcement in Port Townsend have a worrisome track record of not accomplishing anything that works well or at all.
This City Council has produced–even before the COVID crisis ravaged city finances–what has been reported as a $17 million deficit. City streets are in terrible disrepair and won’t see improvement any time in the future. In the case of one deteriorating street, City Council just gave up and closed it.
They’ve talked about affordable housing for years and accomplished nothing. All of these people once thought they could provide affordable housing affordably and quickly through the fiasco now known as the Cherry Street Project. If they couldn’t rehab an old building why should we have any confidence that their monkeying with law enforcement will produce anything that does not harm the community’s security and sense of personal safety?
The idea about disarming police was first articulated by City Councilor/Deputy Mayor David Faber. He was head of the group that ran the Boiler Room into the ground. He could not protect at-risk youth from older, sometimes dangerous, often intoxicated vagrants and as a result the organization collapsed. Why should we think he is any better at protecting citizens from criminals?
The former Executive Director of the failed Boiler Room, Amy Howard, is another City Councilor who wants to reshape law enforcement, though she could not keep open the doors of a simple non-profit.
Not one person on City Council has any training, education or experience in law enforcement. Not one of them would or could do the job police do. They are not asking our police what they need to do a better job (hint: enough funding to be adequately staffed). No, they are going to make it up as they go along.
With all the questions City Council wants answered, several omissions stand out. Not a single City Councilor asked Chief Surber what could be done to better protect our officers or what city hall could do to make Port Townsend a safer place for everyone. You’d think those would be priorities. That they are not says a lot about why we should be concerned.
Irresponsible Politicians Drive Gun Sales
Chief Surber presented a graph showing the unprecedented recent spike in gun purchases by Americans. The graph attributes the rapid arming of Americans to unrest surrounding COVID-19 and the George Floyd civil disturbances.
People are indeed buying guns and ammunition like never before. I recently went shopping for a shotgun for home defense. Good luck finding any short-barreled or tactical 12 gauge shotgun in stock in any nearby gun retailer. The line at Sportsman’s Warehouse in Silverdale was 1.5 hours long and their display racks were mostly empty. Ammunition purchases were limited, if they weren’t already sold out. Every handgun with a laser had been sold long ago. (True also at every other store I checked except one fifty miles from my home that had a single lasered pistol left–until I snapped it up). Neither were there silhouette targets to be had in Jefferson or Clallam counties. People obviously are practicing with the weapons they have acquired.
Even on-line sources are sold out of many guns and most ammunition. Bids for used short-barreled and tactical shotguns on sites like gunbroker.com are almost twice the prices for the same weapons new a couple months ago.
According to data cited by Chief Surber, 3 million more guns than would be the normal rate of purchases have been acquired by Americans during the last three months. I would submit the reason was what was being discussed among people in the 1.5 hour line at Sportsmans Warehouse: crazy ideas like we are hearing from Port Townsend City Council that will handcuff police and force citizens to rely on themselves for protection of their lives and property. In Minneapolis, where that city council abandoned streets to rioters and is cutting its police force in half, citizens who just watched their city in flames are forming armed militias and barricading entrances into some neighborhoods. They recognize that ideological, irresponsible politicians have deprived them of the fundamental reason government exists, the maintenance of order and public safety.
If police are not safe, none of us are safe. Let us hope Port Townsend City Council comes to its senses. But don’t bet your life and your family’s safety on unlikely miracles.
by Jim Scarantino | Jul 27, 2020 | General
More than one violent incident a day. Reading The Leader’s cutesy police blotter feature you wouldn’t know it. But statistics released by the Port Townsend Police Department in a presentation to City Council show our city has more violence–and more crime–than many people believe.
The “We Don’t Have A Lot of Violent Crime Here” narrative is one of the driving forces behind talk about defunding, even disarming our police officers. That narrative is delusional and uninformed. We may not be what Seattle has become. We don’t have criminal gangs and armed robberies here are not common. But we have our share of violence and crime. According to several websites, discussed below, Port Townsend actually has a higher than average crime rate.
The following discussion is based on a document prepared by the police department entitled, “21st Century Policing.” It is being discussed at the first meeting of the city council’ ad hoc committee on public safety and law enforcement.
At times during every day Port Townsend has only one police officer on patrol to combat violent crime, while also responding to calls about nuisances, suspicious persons, welfare checks, thefts and burglaries, drug and alcohol investigations, traffic stops and assisting other agencies.
Port Townsend police have not had an officer involved shooting since 1995, when officers had to defend themselves against a man who had just shot a woman. He shot at officers, they returned fire and the assailant was killed.
The report does not separately address assaults or attempted assaults against officers. Those incidents are presumably subsumed in the total numbers of violent crimes.
We will publish a separate article on other aspects of PTPD’s “21st Century Policing” presentation. It is worth reading in its entirety.
Violence
Violence is part of Port Townsend’s history and reality. In the days of tall ships, Port Townsend was known as “Bloody Townsend” for its culture of crime and violence. Things are much better now, but this is not Andy Griffith’s Mayberry.
In the period of time covering 2017 to mid-way through 2020, Port Townsend police handled 1,374 violent incidents. That covers attempted murders to fist fights. It works out to more than one violent incident per day requiring police intervention.
One of the more notable violent incidents included the attempted murder at Memorial Field by a homeless man who had come to the city looking for someone to kill. He hunted and stabbed another homeless man. Not long after that there was another attempted murder a block away at night in front of the Bishop Hotel. That case remains unsolved.
Port Townsend Free Press covered another incident in our story, “A Bloody Afternoon in Kah Tai Park.”
This period of time saw 2 murders within the city. The report does not include a greater number of murders just outside city limits during the same period of time. Neighboring Clallam County has seen a significant surge in homicides–and multiple homicides–in the past couple years.
75 sex crimes were handled by Port Townsend police during this time, or more than one per month. That number includes sex crimes against children, attempted rape and rapes.
The featured image at the top of this article shows a steady rate of violent crime in Port Townsend of forty-plus incidents of murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault, rape and robbery annually. After dropping in 2015 and 2016, that number has been climbing.
Property Crime
Police handled more than one report of burglary, auto theft, auto burglary, theft and shoplifting daily, for a total of 1,568 incidents.
Trespassing/Unwanted Subjects
This category includes incidents of vagrants who have caused trouble and been issued a citation to stay off a property, including violations of that order. Police handled 1,298 of these incidents.
Reports of Suspicious Activity
1,729 incidents.
Parking and Traffic Complaints
1,847 incidents
Animal, Noise and Nuisance
This covers everything from deer tangled in fences to loud parties: 2,010 incidents
Drug and Alcohol Investigations
162 incidents
Persons in Crisis
1,415 incidents. For an example of this category of incident see our article on how PT police saved a young man’s life. “Black Life Mattered to Port Townsend Police.”
Community Caretaking
1,609 incidents
Assisting Other Agencies
3,849 incidents
Warrant Arrests
343 incidents
Traffic Collisions
667 incidents
DUI
667 incidents
Uncategorized
1,096 incidents
How Does Port Townsend Compare?
Several websites attempt to rank communities against national and state crime data. Port Townsend does not come across as a crime-free haven.
Bestplaces.com ranks Port Townsend higher than the national average in both violent and property crime.
Neighborhoodscout.com calculates that a Port Townsend resident has a greater chance of being a victim of violent crime than Americans on average.
Areavibes.com gives PT a B minus, and says that crime here is 16% below the national average.
Cityrating.com says PT’s violent crime was 35.55% lower than the national average, but property crimes were 33.14% higher.
city-data.com rates PT’s crime rate as average on a national scale.
