New Roseville Crime Analyst Stresses 'Suspicious Activity Reporting'

Corey Yunke has been on the job as Roseville’s crime analyst for less than two months. But already he has one simple idea for cutting down on the city’s vice—report the small things.

“Before I went into crime prevention, I wouldn’t necessarily report the little stuff—like somebody snooping around—because I thought that an officer would roll their eyes,” Yunke said.

But today, Yunke said he believes that citizens reporting suspicious activity is essential to impeding crime. (He comes to Roseville from Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he worked as a crime prevention organizer.)

Yunke points to a recent incident where a Roseville resident reported of person perched on the shoulders of his friend looking into a window.

The tip led to a narcotics bust and an investigation into a possible attempted burglary.

Yunke said that many crimes in Roseville are crimes of opportunity and that he’s seen an uptick in theft from autos.

Large parking lots at parks and businesses such as L.A. Fitness are targets for thieves, Yunke said.

“You leave all your stuff—you leave your wallet, your laptop, your purse—and the people know it’s there,” he said. “It doesn’t take much—it takes literally five seconds—to break the window, reach in, scoop, grab, and leave,” he said.

Yunke said he intends to continue working with Roseville’s Neighborhood Watch program, in which more than 100 “block captains” keep an eye on their communities, to help combat these types of crime.

“It’s tough for the Roseville police to be everywhere all the time so we encourage the block captains to be our eyes and ears,” Yunke said.