The Manitowoc Police Department has released its statistics for the first month of 20204, and the number of charges filed was up significantly from a year prior.
A total of 156 adult criminal charges were filed in January, which is up 5.4% from January of 2023, when 148 such charges were filed.
The big increase came in the number of juvenile criminal charges.
Only two were reported last January, a number that rose fivefold to 10 this January.
Officers were, overall, busier as well, with 2,592 calls for service last month, 4.6% more than in January 2023.
Traffic citations were also up significantly, with the 278 reported last month 42.5% higher than the same month last year.
Also, the blizzard last month was directly responsible for 123 accidents being reported in the city, which is up 33.7% from last January’s 92 crashes reported.
It also led to 148 citations for snow emergency parking violations, which is 91% of the total number of citations in 2023, which was 162.