2005/06/15 Council Agenda Packet

Consultants' Final Report - Page 21 conducted under cover of darkness, on an intoxicated victim, in a relatively deserted public location. These conditions presumably occur on weekend nights outside bars or adult businesses. In daylight, the desired anonymity is unobtainable and the vulnerable, prospective victims are not on the street. Thus, Personal crimes are committed most often on weekend nights. The opposite pattern holds for Property crimes. These crimes, notably theft and burglary, are most often committed when the offender is least likely to encounter any witnesses. In theory, the best time to break into a residence undetected is during the weekday daytime hours when most occupants are away from home. For our purposes, however, the weekday patterns found in these data, as shown in Figure 3, are a simple confirmation of the reliability of our data. More important, perhaps, finding the same patterns in all four Personal crimes and all three Property crimes justifies collapsing Part I crimes into two broad categories. Hereafter, except where an effect or pattern varies across the Part I crimes, effects and patterns will be reported for Personal, Property, and Part II crime categories. EVER00366