Westlake gets $1.9 million for violent crime reduction; East Cleveland gets $150,000

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – Earlier this 12 months, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine introduced he would take $100 million of the federal {dollars} given to the state for the Get well Act and create the Violent Crime Discount Grant Plan.

Legislation enforcement companies have been requested to submit grants to the Workplace of Prison Justice Companies, who decided which purposes have been accepted and denied.

The cash had for use for something that would scale back violent crime in any given metropolis or county.

Most accepted grants have been for issues like know-how, hiring of extra officers and at the same time as bonuses to maintain officers from leaving departments, additionally know as retention bonuses.

To be clear, each legislation enforcement company was allowed to use for something they wished, it was as much as the state to approve.

To date, $70 million of the $100 million has been awarded to 146 companies.

Here’s a have a look at a few of Northeast Ohio’s companies who’ve taken half and their awards by 10 rounds:

• Cleveland – $6,317,502 know-how to investigate bullets, stop youth in gangs, actual time crime middle. ($4.2M to be given as bonuses to 1,405 officers as retention bonuses)
• East Cleveland – $149,236 for know-how to detect gun pictures
• Canton – $74,760 for know-how to establish crime hotspots and deploy assets
• Akron – $0 (It’s unclear right now if Akron has submitted a grant and is awaiting approval)
• Lakewood – $217,752 know-how to cut back violent crime and give attention to Madison park
• Garfield Heights – $1,311,936 know-how to seek out crime hotspots and repeat offenders
• Westlake – $1.948,775 know-how for top crime detection areas, rent new officers, retention bonuses
• Strongsville – $1,620,514 hiring three full-time officers and 5 full-time dispatchers

The numbers above which may stick out are for Westlake and Strongsville, not thought-about by most as excessive violent crime areas.

The FBI defines violent crime in 4 principal areas: Homicide and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, theft, and aggravated assault.

The FBI now not requires cities report the variety of violent crimes, so right here is the newest variety of reported violent crimes for among the above point out cities

Cleveland

• 2018: 5,971
• 2019: 5,818
• 2020: 6,294
• 2021: 6,316

East Cleveland:

• 2018: 112
• 2019: 97
• 2020: 54
• 2021: 112

Akon:

• 2018: 1,725
• 2019: 1,831
• 2020: 1,797
• 2021: 1,633

Westlake:

• 2015: 16
• 2016: 14
• 2017: 13
• 2018: 5

Strongsville:

2018: 12

2019: 18

2020: 19

2021: 54

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