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But county Sheriff John Henry Woodward cautioned that the report’s statistics can be “sometimes misleading” because of differences in how crimes were reported in different years.
“Maybe the reporting (of crimes) got better in 1983,” he added.
Rappahannock’s crime-solution rate-what the report labels “percent cleared”-almost doubled last year, jumping to 35.14 percent, up from 19.70 percent in 1982, or a 78 percent increase in county crimes solved by the state police and the Rappahannock Sheriffs Department.
Former county Sheriff William Buntin said the lack of a full-time investigator hampered attempts by the Sheriffs Department to solve even more county crimes in 1983.
“We didn’t have enough men to assign them one man to an investigation,” he said. “In a small department like (Rappahannock), officers do a little bit of everything.”
"Anybody could use more men,” said Woodward, “but we’re in good shape right now. I have no complaints.”
A total of 74 index crimes were reported in Rappahannock last year, compared with 67 reported in 1982, resulting in a 7.4 percent rise in county
81.7%