Crime Prevention

Crime prevention works. It is cheaper, safer, and healthier for communities to prevent crime than to have to treat its victims, deal with its perpetrators, and lose civic health and productivity. But the responsibility of crime prevention doesn't fall on one person — it's everyone's business. Law enforcement agencies, however, often are the focal point in community crime prevention. This can be beneficial to prevention efforts because then these law enforcement officers:

• Know what crime is happening, where it is happening, and by whom
• Have the expertise to stop crime before it happens
• Can bring community members, police departments, and government officials together

Yearly Crime Report

View the 2019 Yearly Crime Report (DOCX). The numbers in the report are from January 1 to December 31, comparing 2018 to 2019 numbers.

Vehicle Burglaries

Most burglaries from motor vehicles are valuables left in plain sight in UNLOCKED cars. Burglars don't make too much noise by breaking windows anymore, they simply pull on door handles and enter silently. Here are some quick and very easy tips to help deter these types of burglaries:

• Clean out the garage storage and park your car in the garage
• If you park your car in the driveway, lock it
• Take out all valuables or at least put them under the seat before you get home
• Install and turn on exterior lighting near the driveway

Crime Stoppers

Any person with information that would assist in identifying actors of any crime is encouraged to contact the Hutto Police Department and/or Williamson County Crime Stoppers.