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Agenda Item #1 from 123 in 2014 to 58 in 2015. Twenty fourteen had a disproportionately large number of fraud cases due to one incident at a local spa (Stonewater). The UCR lists 20 separate Part 2 categories, but for the sake of brevity, the table below only contains those areas with significant increases or decreases. Table 3 Selection of Lino Lakes Part 2 Crimes Year Forgery Fraud Vandalism Weapons Narcotics DUI 2011 6 39 84 5 145 91 2012 10 28 69 8 109 60 2013 8 49 47 6 102 64 2014 6 123 40 1 48 44 2015 12 58 84 4 64 93 There are two bright spots in the 2015 Uniform Crime Report. The first is the clearance rate achieved by the investigations division. Even with the increase in the number of crimes, our 2015 clearance rate was 61%, the second best in Anoka County. The excellent clearance rate can be attributed to some technology improvements as well as access to information at a federal level through our officer assigned to the DEA. The second bright spot is that even with our 46% increase in crime, we still enjoy the lowest crime rate in Anoka County. This distinction does not come without a word of caution. Of the 10 police departments in Anoka County, six of them saw an average 8% decrease in their combined crime rate. Of the four police departments who saw an increase, Columbia Heights had a 1% increase, Anoka PD had a 2% increase, Coon Rapids had a 6% increase, and we had a 46% increase.