Borough Crime Rose in February 2013

February 2013 was an active month for the Chatham Borough Police—according to the New Jersey State Police crime reporting data, overall crime rose 50 percent over February 2012.

Granted, Chatham Borough and Chatham Township are pretty safe places in general, and an increase of 50 percent can be pretty significant— but in this case, it represents six crimes reported vs. four from February 2012.

According to the crime reporting data, there was one assault with a dangerous weapon, one simple assault (with hands, fists, feet, etc.) and four thefts reported in Chatham Borough in February 2013.

In February 2012, there were two simple assaults, one robbery with a knife and one burglary, reported.

So far this year the borough police have had 12 crimes, including six thefts, three unlawful entries, two simple assaults and one assault with a dangerous weapon reported. In the same two-month period in 2012, there were ten crimes reported in the borough in the same time period.

Five of the 12 incidents, including two thefts, both simple assaults and one assault with a dangerous weapon, have been cleared. This is a clearance rate of 41.7 percent.