MY MAY 2022 E-MAIL CORRESPONDENCE WITH UTAH DPS PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER CAMERON RODEN IN REGARD TO STATS ON HOME INVASION CRIMES IN UTAH

 

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Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2022 at 01:45:56 AM CDT

Subject: Re: 5-4-22 re: stats on home invasion crimes in Utah

May 12, 2022

Dear Utah Department of Public Safety Public Information Officer Sgt. Cameron Roden,

Thank you for your detailed and informative May 11 reply letter (below) to me, in which you state toward the end of your reply:

"'Home Invasion Crimes' is not a category in the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program. It is not a category collected in NIBRS by the FBI and therefore, it is not collected as such by BCI. What is collected and reported on our dashboard are incidents that meet the definition of "Burglary" as established in the NIBRS manual.  

"As for the AG in California and their 'home invasion' report, that may be something that that specific agency has a collection all their own that they do and share. It is not something within the UCR program, nor do attorney's offices participate in the UCR program nationwide. If I were to guess, it may be something that that agency has determined to compile stats on, but it is not something uniform across jurisdictions and I can't speak to them specifically. Sometimes agencies compile or track stats outside of the UCR program on their own etc. but those are not part of the state program."

I hope this exchange of letters between us about classification of crimes in Utah proves to be helpful toward future compilation of data by the Utah DPS specifically about break-ins to homes in Utah that do not involve intended theft of property per se, but instead involve the unconscionable infliction of personal-injury crimes on the occupants of those homes.  

That proposed additional data compilation on an ongoing basis here in Utah will be invaluable toward life-saving deterrence of --- and increased criminal-law investigation of----any and all home-invasion-crimes accompanied by personal-injury-crimes that might ever occur here in Utah. 

Among the types of heinous and very outrageous home-invasion-related personal-injury crimes are any and all sexual-assault crimes inflicted on Utahns during their sleeping hours as the crime victims lie unconscious on their own bed inside their bolt-locked private residence here in Salt Lake County, Utah.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,

former Texas Department of Public Safety full-time clerical employee and former Texas resident John Kevin McMillan. My date of birth: 4-27-1957. My place of birth: Lincoln, Nebraska.

My current rental-housing quadplex solo-occupancy-unit home address---an address only applicable to my specific and separate unit in the quadplex rental-home where I reside--- in Utah ever since February 24, 2022:

6819 South 1300 East, Cottonwood Heights, UT 84121.

My home phone: (801) 942-2122.

My cell phone: (512) 993-7305.

John Kevin McMillan

On Wednesday, May 11, 2022, 04:00:18 PM CDT, Cameron Roden <croden@utah.gov> wrote:

John,

I reached out to BCI to assist in answering your questions.  Here is what they said:

Law enforcement agencies in the state of Utah (including UHP) participate in the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program and we collect this data at the Utah Bureau of Criminal Identification according to the definitions and rules set by the FBI's UCR program. We are collecting burglary offenses according to the definition as found in the National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) manual. 

"Home Invasion Crimes" is not a category in the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program. It is not a category collected in NIBRS by the FBI and therefore, it is not collected as such by BCI. What is collected and reported on our dashboard are incidents that meet the definition of "Burglary" as established in the NIBRS manual.  

As for the AG in California and their "home invasion" report, that may be something that that specific agency has a collection all their own that they do and share. It is not something within the UCR program, nor do attorney's offices participate in the UCR program nationwide. If I were to guess, it may be something that that agency has determined to compile stats on, but it is not something uniform across jurisdictions and I can't speak to them specifically. Sometimes agencies compile or track stats outside of the UCR program on their own etc. but those are not part of the state program.

I will forward your suggestion to the Commissioner to consider.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Thanks

Sgt. Cameron Roden

Utah Department of Public Safety

Utah Highway Patrol - Public Information Officer

croden@utah.gov

801.554.5659

On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 12:43 AM John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net> wrote:

May 10, 2022

Dear Utah Department of Public Safety Public Information Officer and Sergeant Cameron Roden,

Thank you for your May 9 reply letter (below). Your reply indicates that the Utah Department of Public Safety Bureau of Criminal Identification does not compile statistics on the total number of reported cases of alleged home-invasion crimes that occur each year in Utah, and specifically in Salt Lake County, Utah.

Does your state law-enforcement agency's Bureau of Criminal Identification participate in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's "Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program"? If so, has the FBI or any other federal agency ever advised the Utah Bureau of Criminal Identification of the possible need to specifically cite "Home Invasion Crimes" as a category of crime for which that division of your Utah DPS compiles data?

I would also like to politely point out that the Attorney General of California  at that state agency's official website repeatedly cites "home invasion" crimes as a category of crime occurring and being specifically cited as "home invasions" in that far western state. https://oag.ca.gov/search-results/?query=home+invasion+crimes

Does Utah Commissioner of Public Safety Jess L. Anderson, who presides over the goals and activities of each of his Utah DPS divisions or bureaus, have the legal authority to require that the Utah DPS Bureau of Identification on an ongoing basis compile statistics and other data in regard to each and every home-invasion crime that reportedly occurs anywhere in Utah?

Thank you in advance, Sgt. Roden, for your helpful reply note to me on this.

Sincerely and Best Wishes, 

former Texas Department of Public Safety full-time clerical staff member John Kevin McMillan.

My solo-occupancy fully bolt-locked and fully-locked rental-home address ever since Feb. 24, 2022:

6819 South 1300 East, Cottonwood Heights, UT 84121.

Home phone: (801) 942-2122.

Cell phone: (512) 993-7305.

John Kevin McMillan

On Monday, May 9, 2022, 11:12:51 AM CDT, Cameron Roden <croden@utah.gov> wrote:

John

I have talked with BCI, who is the keeper of Utah's crime report.  I will include what they sent me below.  They only keep burglary stats and don't break them out by home invasion.  You can look up the crime report on the Bureau of Criminal Identifications (BCI) website if you want to look into things a little deeper.  

Cameron,

The historical crime reports found here do have a page that shows some information on burglary in general, but not "home invasion". 

The Crime in Utah Dashboard will only have a count of how many burglaries have been reported, but it won't show the type.

I hope that helps.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks

Sgt. Cameron Roden

Utah Department of Public Safety

Utah Highway Patrol - Public Information Officer

croden@utah.gov

801.554.5659

On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 2:35 PM John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net> wrote:

Dear Utah DPS Public Information Officer Roden,

Best Wishes to you in your people-friendly and informative style on behalf of the Utah Department of Public Safety.

Does the Utah DPS maintain statewide statistics for reported home-invasion crimes in Utah, along with countywide statistics for Salt Lake County, Utah? If so, what is the most recent calendar year for which your Utah DPS has obtained those annual home-invasion-crimes statistics for all of Utah and for Salt Lake County, Utah, and what has the recent multi-year trend been on incidence of home-invasion crimes statewide and in Salt Lake County, Utah?

My follow-up question would be: Does your very influential state law-enforcement agency have the most recent statistics on the racial identity, previous-criminal-conviction-record status, current nation of citizenship, gender identity, sexual identity, age group, marital status, illicit-drug-addiction status, alcohol-addiction status, or level of inebriation at time of arrest of the individuals who during the most recent applicable calendar year were arrested and formally charged with having a committed a home-invasion crime specifically in Salt Lake County, Utah?

Thank you in advance for your kind reply message to me on this.

Best Wishes from a dependably civil and law-abiding and very honest and vigilant single adult white longtime-celibate-by-choice male 65-year-old opponent of any and all home-invasion crimes. I am also a strong supporter of increased criminal-law penalties for any and all home-invasion crimes in Utah that involve inter-racial rape or any type of sexual or physical assault  victimizing or medical injury to an approved home-owner or approved occupant inside their own home or to an approved rental-housing-unit tenant or approved rental-housing-unit occupant who is asleep and unconscious inside his or her unit at the time of those home-invasion crimes.

My full legal name: John Kevin McMillan, my date of birth 4-27-1957, my place of birth Lincoln, Nebraska. I am a former full-time staff member for the Texas Department of Public Safety state agency in Austin.

My home phone: (801) 942-2122.

My cell phone: (512) 993-7305.

My current solo-occupancy rental-home address ever since February 24, 2022:

6819 South 1300 East, Cottonwood Heights, Utah 84121.

My Blog; http://www.johnkevinmcmillan.blogspot.com

John Kevin McMillan