Veterans Day brought 39 calls—downtown warrants and midday retail

With 82 percent of yesterday's calls non-violent, the day reflected Bellingham's typical operational tempo: officers cleared warrants, documented thefts, and managed disputes rather than responding to acute harm. The Lettered Streets' eight incidents and Cornwall Park's six underscored downtown's role as both an enforcement hub and a retail flashpoint, while quieter neighborhoods—Birchwood, Edgemoor, Fairhaven, Columbia, Sunnyland—each logged just one call.

Expect today to follow a similar arc if the pattern holds: a quiet morning, a midday uptick around retail corridors and downtown, and scattered evening activity as welfare checks and traffic enforcement pick up. Businesses near Bellis Fair and along Meridian should stay alert for shoplifting during the 1–3 PM window, and downtown visitors can anticipate visible police presence as warrant work continues. Tonight's commute should be routine, but keep an eye out for enforcement on Railroad and Holly.

Yesterday's mix leaned heavily toward paperwork and order enforcement: eleven "Other" calls—mostly warrant arrests—plus eight malicious incidents (trespass, disputes, vandalism) and six thefts. That combination signals officers spent much of the day processing outstanding warrants and responding to property complaints rather than emergency violence. Four welfare checks and five investigations rounded out a day that asked more of administrative follow-through than crisis response.

Geography tells the story in layers. Downtown's Lettered Streets handled warrant arrests at Holly and a DUI stop on Railroad, while Cornwall Park's Bellis Fair corridor saw both retail theft and a burglary arrest. Meridian neighborhoods logged fraud reports and a juvenile problem on James Street, and Roosevelt dealt with trespass calls on Kentucky. The city's retail and residential zones each drew different flavors of attention—enforcement downtown, property protection in the malls, and neighbor disputes in the residential blocks.

The day built slowly, peaked sharply in early afternoon, then spread into a busy evening.

Activity was nearly silent until 9 AM, then climbed steadily through the lunch hour. The peak arrived at 1 PM with five calls, including a burglary arrest at Bellis Fair and a malicious mischief case on Erie Street. A two-hour window from 1–3 PM captured nine incidents—nearly a quarter of the day's total. Evening stayed active: four calls at 8 PM (welfare checks in Roosevelt, a theft at Sunset Safeway, an order violation in Sehome) and three more at both 9 PM and 11 PM, the latter including a DUI arrest on Railroad and a warrant service in Cornwall Park.