Thursday's Lettered Streets Focus—36 calls, 72% non-violent
Happy Friday, Bellingham!
Yesterday unfolded as a steady mid-week day across Bellingham, with 36 incidents logged between midnight and midnight. The Lettered Streets neighborhood anchored the map—accounting for a third of all calls—while the rest scattered across Cornwall Park, Meridian, and Roosevelt. The mix leaned toward administrative and welfare work rather than high-intensity response, and the clock showed a gentle midday peak rather than a dramatic surge.
At a Glance
With 72 percent of yesterday's calls falling into non-violent categories—disputes, welfare checks, traffic stops, and administrative tasks—the day's character was more about managing friction than responding to crisis. The single assault report and ten welfare or behavioral-health incidents underscore the ongoing challenge of connecting people in distress to appropriate care, while the narcotics arrests and theft calls remind us that property and public-order enforcement remains a daily thread.
Looking ahead to today and the weekend, expect downtown and the Lettered Streets to stay active during daylight shopping and dining hours, with midday the likeliest window for service calls. Cornwall Park and the residential corridors may see continued domestic and welfare activity, especially as Friday evening social plans unfold. If you're out tonight, plan for typical downtown foot traffic and give yourself extra time on Meridian and Holly during the commute home.
Category Breakdown
Yesterday's category mix reflects the breadth of municipal policing: ten malicious-conduct calls (disputes, trespasses, trouble-with-a-person reports), eight administrative filings (collisions, found property, civil matters), and five welfare checks. That combination means officers spent much of the day mediating conflicts, documenting paperwork, and connecting vulnerable residents to resources—work that rarely makes headlines but keeps neighborhoods stable.
Geography and timing shaped the workload. The Lettered Streets corridor saw three narcotics arrests clustered around Unity Street mid-morning, while Cornwall Park logged domestic disputes at breakfast and lunchtime. Roosevelt and Meridian handled fender-benders in the afternoon commute window, and late-evening welfare calls stretched from Silver Beach to Birchwood. It's a portrait of a city balancing downtown foot traffic, residential tension, and arterial flow all at once.
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Timeline Analysis
The day built gradually from a quiet pre-dawn to a modest midday crest, then tapered through the evening.
Activity began with two late-night calls at midnight and three more by 01:00—mostly behavioral-health and trouble-with-a-person reports in the Lettered Streets. The morning stayed calm until 10:00, when back-to-back narcotics arrests on Unity Street kicked off a four-hour stretch. The peak arrived at 13:00 with four incidents (a drug arrest, a suspicious circumstance, found property, and another trouble call), and the afternoon held steady through 17:00 with collisions and domestic disputes. By 19:00 the pace slowed, and the final call logged at 23:27 in Silver Beach.
Intel Briefs
Midday Downtown Awareness
Yesterday's 10:00–14:00 window brought narcotics enforcement, trouble calls, and a theft to the Lettered Streets core. If you manage a storefront or work downtown, keep an eye on foot traffic during lunch hours and communicate quickly with dispatch if you spot repeat trespass or suspicious behavior.
Afternoon Commute Caution
Three collisions and a driving-related arrest clustered between 16:00 and 21:00 yesterday, spanning Roosevelt, Barkley, and Fairhaven. Tonight's commute may see similar congestion—allow extra following distance, especially on wet pavement, and watch for impaired drivers as the evening progresses.
Welfare-Check Collaboration
Five welfare checks yesterday stretched from early morning in Birchwood to late evening in Silver Beach, with behavioral-health calls bookending the day. If you encounter someone in distress, a non-emergency call to police can connect them to crisis resources faster than waiting for a passerby to intervene.
Frequently Asked Questions
What's in the "Other" category?
The "Other" category includes 5 incidents that don't fit into our main categories. Here's the breakdown:
Where does this data come from?
All incident data is sourced directly from the official Bellingham Police Department Daily Activity Log. We aggregate and analyze this public information to provide community insights. Our data is updated daily and reflects only what the department publicly reports.