Crime in Brookline Up 1.8 Percent

A community safety meeting was held on Monday evening at the Devotion School.

Brookline Chief of Police Daniel O’Leary told a crowded Devotion School cafeteria filled with concerned town residents that crime had gone up 1.8 percent from 2011 to 2012. The North Brookline Neighborhood Association, which covers the areas of precincts 2, 8 and 9 in North Brookline sponsored this meeting with the Brookline Police Department. Selectman Nancy Daily was in attendance as well as Boston University Police Chief Tom Robbins. Chief O’Leary said that from 2011, burglaries were down 20 percent, motor vehicle thefts and assaults were both down seven percent and that there were no murders in 2012. Reports of rape had gone up from one report in 2011 to three in 2012. But the crimes that were on the increase were robberies, up 17 …

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