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Crime is Up in Joplin

By: Gretchen Bolander
Updated: May 9, 2012
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JOPLIN, MO-- Crime is up in Joplin - increases both for the month of April and year to date. Five of the ten categories of crime went up as compared to April 2011. Overall, it's 73 crimes higher - with theft related cases making a big impact. The biggest jump was in larceny, or general theft cases. That saw a 39% increase - shoplifting and residential theft account for 2/3rds of the overall total.

Joplin Police Chief Lane Roberts says it could be related to tornado recovery efforts. "That's the number most likely to be influenced by a transient population. And by transient, I'm not talking about homelessness necessarily. I'm just talking about a lot of people who've been to our community who don't normally live here."

Chief Roberts adds overall crime numbers are still 25% lower than reports five years ago.

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