Please note this post reflects data thru 11/2023. Will be updated later with year end data.
The following is a comparison of the Randolph Village Police Department annual cost, reported incidents, requests for service, full and part time officers, administrative and dispatch personnel, and finally the annual cost adjusted for inflation to 2023 dollars, divided by # of officers, and by # of reported incidents per year.
The # of reported incidents for 2023 is based on the incident reports, traffic reports and warnings data recorded for June - November 2023 by the Randolph Police Department. Please see a detailed breakdown of incidents by month on a separate blog post here:
It is difficult to compare the reported incidents to past years because the past years do not break down the incidents by type so all we have for now is the total incidents. The total 1,924 reported incidents for the six month period of June - November 2023 has been adjusted to exclude directed patrols, fingerprints, training and administrative time spent by officers, to get a more accurate number of incidents to compare to prior years. Also, we do not have data on 2023 requests to compare to past years, we only have reported incidents.
The reported incidents for 2023 seem to reflect a busy department compared to past years. For example, from 2010 to 2016 the incidents averaged roughly 1,200 per year, compared to a projected 2023 total of 1,924 incidents. This is an approximate 60% increase in the total 2023 incidents to which officers are responding, yet they are working with 2 fewer officers than in the past (6 to 4 full time). No wonder they are feeling overworked, they are busy!
Randolph is spending an average of $131,026 per officer for 2023, compared to an average cost per officer of $125,546 for the 4 years 2014 to 2017 (adjusted for inflation). However, the projected FY 2025 police department budget for the existing Village Police District, assuming no expansion of the district boundaries, is a total of $856,248, or $171,250 per full-time officer. This means the cost per officer has increased from roughly $125,546 to a projected $171,250, an increase of 63% in less than 10 years. This is an enormous increase which is likely unsustainable in the long term.
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