WAUWATOSA - Police calls to Mayfair Mall are on the rise.

In the last several days, those calls have included a fight outside the movie theater where one teenager was shot with a Taser, and a road rage incident in the parking lot.

But according to Wauwatosa police records, calls in 2006 were up over the previous year. In 2005, police were called to Mayfair Mall about 1,900 times. Last year, that number jumped to 2,165. That’s roughly a 13 percent increase.

Wauwatosa Police Chief Barry Weber noticed the trend, but he’s not sounding an alarm yet.

"I think we should understand that society as a whole is getting more violent," he said.

Weber blames the increase in rising crime rates around the country, stepped up security and cold weather.

"I think so far you see an increase in incidents, but again, we're also doing that zero tolerance policy too," he said. "We ratchet up our enforcement a little bit more."

Weber said he believes they were making more arrests because they are responding more strictly to issues of bad language, yelling and fighting. The largest categories of calls to the mall are for theft and disorderly conduct.

Recent incidents have shoppers talking about the safety of their shopping environment. Janay Austin said she’s stopped going to Mayfair as often.

"There's just a lot of kids, there's a lot of rowdiness and there's not a lot of shopping going on," she observed.

But Ronda Harmon said she’s never had a problem at Mayfair, saying, "I've never had any bad vibes about Mayfair as far as it being unsafe."

Mall management hopes to alleviate concerns by putting new security measures in place, limiting the number of unaccompanied teens.