{"id":103137,"date":"2026-02-02T18:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/103137\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T18:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:54:07","slug":"crime-down-in-2025-in-bensalem-township","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/103137\/","title":{"rendered":"Crime Down In 2025 In Bensalem Township"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 Crime has fallen in the past year in the township, the head of the police department said.<\/p>\n<p>Public Safety Director William McVey said that crime rates continued to trend downward.<\/p>\n<p>McVey said that Part 1 (serious and violent) crimes are down by over 30 percent from 2024, with robberies and burglaries dropping by about 50 percent each.<\/p>\n<p>The Bensalem Township Police Department cleared 49 percent of Part 1 crime cases, which is a testament to its commitment to public safety. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, retail theft also was down by 24 percent, partly due to the Bensalem Secure program, a program in which the police department works with township businesses to report retail thefts.<\/p>\n<p>McVey and the Command Staff applauded the work of the police department&#8217;s officers and civilian staff and thanked Mayor Joseph DiGirolamo, the Bensalem Township Council, and the Bensalem community for its support.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The men and women of the Bensalem Police force do an exceptional job deterring and detecting crime through their proactive efforts,&#8221; McVey said. &#8220;We will continue to build upon these results with enhanced technologies to assist our police officers in their efforts, with the overall goal of keeping our community safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 Crime has fallen in the past year in the township, the head of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-103137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}