Captain Paul Bartlett of Lancaster Station presented a unit commander commendation to Deputy Kit Gruppi and then delivered the station's October 2025 crime and traffic report to the Lancaster Criminal Justice Commission. Bartlett said Gruppi completed the sheriff's motor school and has been active in community relations since June 2023.

The station reported 19 homicides for the station area in 2025 (13 in the city; 6 in unincorporated areas). The presenter said city homicides were down 35% from the previous year while unincorporated-area homicides rose 200%; combined, the speaker described a stationwide average drop of 13.64% for homicides. The Part I crime total for the city was 3,383 and 532 in the unincorporated area (3,915 station total); the presenter said that represented a 9.98% drop in the city year to date and a 13.06% overall decrease in Part I crime.

Not every category declined. The presenter reported 241 robberies in the city (a 5.7% increase) and a stationwide increase of 19.44% for forcible offenses. Burglaries and grand-theft-auto incidents were described as materially lower than a year earlier (burglaries down about 20.9% in the city; grand-theft-auto down 15.6% in the city). Traffic data for October showed one fatal crash, 88 injury crashes, 107 non-injury crashes, 270 citations and 32 DUI arrests.

Commissioners questioned the map-based hot-spot designations. Captain Bartlett and station staff explained patrol-area delineations (color-coded on the presentation map) and recent redeployments that increased patrol presence in Mid City. Presenters tied several theft hot spots to business corridors — notably around 20th Street East at Avenue J and 10th Street West at K Street — where shopping centers and high retail activity produce concentrated theft incidents.

The presentation concluded with staff saying proactive, data-driven patrols and multi-agency operations remain a priority to address retail theft, collisions and other hot-spot activity. Commissioners offered congratulations to Deputy Gruppi and asked to continue receiving comparative data that clarifies city vs. unincorporated trends.