The year 2010 is not over yet, but Sheriff Mark Falk responded to a Cook County News-
Herald
request for statistics on civil processes, calls for service, and jail bookings over the last two years.
In 2008, 287 civil cases were processed, and in 2009, 254 cases were processed. By comparison, an article in the April 2, 1990 issue of the Cook County News-Herald
stated that Sheriff John Lyght’s department had reported processing 180 cases in 1989, a 35 percent increase from the year before.
In 2008, the Law Enforcement Center received 3,410 calls for service, and in 2009, it received 3,291. Back in 1989, the Sheriff ’s Department received 2,530 complaints, a 10 percent increase from the year before.
In 2008, the Law Enforcement Center booked 174 people into jail, and last year, 140 people were booked. That number was 133 in 1989, twice the number it had been the year before.
It appears that Sheriff Falk and his staff have not had to deal with the upward trend in problems that Sheriff Lyght’s staff dealt with in 1990, although the Law Enforcement Center saw a bit more activity 20 years later.
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