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Safe and sound website8/15/2023 ![]() The Waikiki police district, 1.5 square miles bordered by the Ala Wai Canal, Diamond Head and the Pacific Ocean, is HPD’s smallest district, said officer Ryan Yamamoto, who led a community policing walk through the neighborhood Thursday. > RELATED: Calling National Guard to Waikiki a ‘nonstarter,’ official says The numbers are kind of getting back to pre-pandemic, so there’s definitely been an upswing in crime.” “I think part of that was that crime was down like 30% during the pandemic. The city has invested $100,000 in the program, which has been matched with another $100,000 from the Kosasa Foundation to fund any related social services. ![]() However, Waikiki does have more people and thus more crimes.”Ī rash of crimes since the tourist district reopened last year after the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic prompted the prosecutor’s office to begin working in partnership with the Honolulu Police Department and community groups to establish Safe and Sound strategy, which depends on grassroots input from residents, businesses and community groups regarding crime issues as well as what community activities and social services are needed. “We want to hold as many criminals accountable for their criminal behavior. The Department of the Prosecuting Attorney’s charging criteria for Weed and Seed Chinatown and Safe and Sound Waikiki “is essentially the same,” he explained. Overall, Alm said, Waikiki had significantly more arrests over a shorter period than Chinatown, where Weed and Seed, a similar cooperative law enforcement and judicial strategy, netted 575 police referrals over a 16-month period. They include 372 referrals for misdemeanor crimes, 52 domestic violence misdemeanor arrests and 32 felony arrests. The overwhelming majority of those arrests have involved what Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Steve Alm refers to as “quality of life” crimes such as harassment, public intoxication and urinating in public. Safe and Sound Waikiki has referred 456 arrests to city prosecutors in its first four months - progress that has been overshadowed by a recent series of violent crimes.
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