Our very own superintendent has said weather doesn't affect crime. Cleveland Public Safety Director Martin Flask says otherwise:
- You might also see higher crime, says Martin Flask, director of public safety in Cleveland.
Flask says people are out, it's light later in the day and there are more children playing. Even though, in the long term, crime is trending downward in Cleveland, homicides and burglaries are up compared to this time last year.
"We've seen a significant spike that, in our mind, can be caused by nothing else but the weather," Flask says.
Can we get a ruling on this one? Because we'd really hate to see this become the subject of a heated discussion at the next ConStat meeting.