PUBLIC SAFETY Harris County tackles violent crime in Cypress Station area
CALLING FOR HELP Harris County is tackling violent crime in unincorporated Harris County, which is an issue in areas such as Cypress Station in north Houston.
Types of calls made from Cypress Station area Nov. 1, 2020-Oct. 31, 2021
Nov. 1, 2021-Oct. 31, 2022
BY EMILY LINCKE
with FM 1960 in north Houston. A new HCPH pilot, the $6 million Hospital-Linked Violence Interruption Program, launched Nov. 1 in unincorporated Harris County, including ZIP code 77090, which covers the Cypress Station area. According to an HCPH news release, the program aims to help survivors of violence heal from their resulting trauma. “We’re going to ... work with these residents and their families and get them connected to the services ... so that they can have long-term sustainable healing,” said Lupe Washington, director of HCPH’s Community Health and Violence Prevention Services division. According to HCSO crime data for a 1-mile area in the center of Cypress Station, ocers responded to 33,436 calls from November 2021-November 2022, which equals about 92 calls per
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Harris County Public Health, the Harris County Sheri ’s Oce and Harris County Precinct 3 Commissioner’s Oce are working to reduce violent crime in key spots in unincorporated Harris County. Precinct 3 supplied license plate reading cameras to law enforcement in an e ort to reduce crime, according to a Jan. 5 news release. The cameras cost $2,500 per year per camera to operate and send real-time alerts for a license plate associated with a crime or a missing person. “[The cameras help] law enforcement catch wanted vehicles quickly,” Precinct 3 Commissioner Tom Ramsey said in a statement. New anti-crime programs were also recently launched in the Cypress Station area, which was identied as a crime hot spot and is located along the west side of I-45 where it intersects
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Family assault/ family aggravated assault
Robbery (individual, business, aggravated)
Aggravated assault
Sexual assault (minor, adult)
SOURCES: COMMUNITY HEALTH AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES, HARRIS COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE COMMUNITY IMPACT
day. Of the calls made in that time period, about 295 were for family assault; 232 were for aggravated assault; 90 were for robberies; and 66 were for sexual assault. During the last two years, HCSO has also been addressing the violence in unincorporated Harris County through “community
problem-oriented policing,” HCSO Maj. Thomas Diaz said. In March 2022, HCPH launched two $11 million anti-violence pilot programs in Cypress Station and other parts of unincorporated Harris County: the Holistic Assistance Response Team and the Community Violence Interruption Program.
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