When this alliance formed in April 2024, nobody needed a report to tell them things were getting worse on 28th Drive. We got one anyway.

Phoenix Police track every dispatched call for service by grid. Ours, DB22, runs from Sweetwater to Cactus and from 31st Avenue to the I-17. In the first half of 2024, that grid produced 1,223 calls, up from 941 over the same months in 2023. That is a 30% increase in a single year. The summer was worse: June through August came in nearly 40% above the year before.

That was the trend we were organizing against.

A year later

This spring we asked the department to run the same comparison again, 2025 against 2024, after a full season with our shared patrol on the corridor.

• February 18 to March 17: 192 calls in 2024, 107 in 2025. Down 44%.
• March 18 to May 27: 534 calls in 2024, 229 in 2025. Down 57%.
• May alone: 229 calls down to 76. Two out of every three calls, gone.

Across the full fourteen weeks, calls fell from 726 to 336, less than half. A grid that had gotten 30% worse in a year was now running nearly 60% better.

What changed underneath

The breakdown matters more than the headline, because it shows which problems the patrol actually reaches:

• Trespassing calls fell from 143 to 34, down 76%. That is the problem businesses here named first, and the one a patrol enforcing no-trespass authorizations is built to solve.
• Fights fell from 40 to 18.
• Suspicious person calls fell from 83 to 39.
• The single busiest block on 28th Drive went from 158 calls to 52.

Fewer calls also means fewer officers pulled to our corner for things a patrol already on scene can handle, and more Phoenix PD time for what only Phoenix PD can do.

What these numbers are, and are not

These are calls for service, not convictions, and the grid covers more than the corridor. Plenty happens that never becomes a call. But it is the same measure, from the same source, over the same months, a year apart, and it moved the right direction by a wide margin.

Quiet is paid for

None of this is free. Every hour of patrol is funded by businesses that decided a safer corridor was worth buying together rather than alone, as part of our Community Action Plan. The numbers above are what that decision bought.

Keeping them requires keeping the patrol. If your business has felt the difference and is not yet contributing, this is the moment to join the businesses who made it possible.