2025 Budget for the City of Shakopee

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Goals/Challenges:  It’s easy to say our goal is to keep people in Shakopee safe. While certainly true, our goal is also to exceed your expectation and be known as the best police department in Minnesota.  Shakopee is home to many large entertainment venues. These attractions bring millions of people to our city every year and help make Shakopee the great city it is. That said, these attractions also add to the significant workload our department has. In 2024 we will be adding an amphitheater to the entertainment options in the city. Over 70% of people arrested are not from Shakopee.  Recruitment and retention issues exist in policing, we have been able to adapt and maintain our authorized staffing level.  The department conducted a deep dive into our data related to mental health related calls for service and found that our Officer’s spent 1062.95 hours in 2023 on these calls. That is an average of nearly 3 mental health calls a day with 2.34 officers on scene at a time. Officers made 173 referrals to our embedded social worker.

Performance Measures:

Actual 2022 22,423

Actual 2023 22,358

Projected 2024

Calls for Services

22,500

Crimes (FBI classified Part 1 crimes)

775 4.84 164

657 4.43 257

650 4.42 300 2150 45%

Shakopee Crime Rate (Per 100,000 people)

DWI Arrests

Ordinance Calls

2,236

2,031

Percent of Crimes Cleared Sworn Officers (budgeted)

45%

44%

50

50

52

Gun Permits

479

341

425