Interesting news over at our brother neighborhood news site, Central District News: The county prosecutors are launching a new program to target the area’s most prolific burglars:

In an interview today, King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg said that coordination across jurisdictions and detailed tracking of evidence will be used to bring big cases against the busiest burglars. For example, the county’s Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) will be used to link together fingerprint evidence throughout the county and then try to find matches out of its database of known criminals.

Citywide, burglaries were up 10% in 2008 vs. 2007 according to just-released numbers from SPD (that apparently Seattle PI gets first dibs at, those lucky fellows).

Today is going to be a crime heavy day on CHS. We’ll have information on the city’s 2008 crime numbers for East Precinct and a long-overdue round-up of late May police blotter reports.