As far as crime is concerned, not much changed from last year in the city of Manitowoc. The Manitowoc Police Department released its Monthly Report for April, and a lot of the statistics are pretty much the same. The Department was called for service 2,540 times, which is a decline of 137 from last year’s number, however, the number of ordinance citations rose from 104 in April last year, to 142 this year. The number of Adult Criminal Charges stayed exactly the same, at 146. The same cannot be said for the kids though, as that number more than doubled. Last year in April, 6 Juveniles were arrested, while this year 14 were arrested.
Parking violations were not separated by month, but rather by year, and unless a lot of people end up getting ticketed for parking illegally during a winter parking ban this winter, the number of citations will have dropped significantly. In 2017 1,042 parking ban tickets were issued, which dropped to just shy of 800 last year. This year so far, there were only 479 tickets written up. Street sweeping tickets are also drastically down, but it is still early in the season. Traffic citations also dropped from 284 in April last year to 198 this year.
