Violent crime in San Diego County elevated 2 % within the first six months of this 12 months in comparison with the identical interval final 12 months, in response to a report launched this week.
Property crime dropped 2 %, in response to the report by the San Diego Affiliation of Governments, referred to as SANDAG.
The violent crime price on the mid-year mark — 3.73 per 1,000 residents — was the very best since 2012, in response to the report. General, although, the violent crime has been just about flat lately. For comparability, the county’s lowest violent crime price throughout the identical timeframe was 3.21 per 1,000 residents in 2020.
Crime domestically and nationally has typically declined because the early Nineties, and the town of San Diego has constantly ranked among the many most secure main cities within the U.S. lately.
Cynthia Burke, SANDAG’s senior director of information science, mentioned that whereas the area’s crime charges are nonetheless comparatively low in comparison with historic highs, it will be important for the group to concentrate on the will increase in sure sorts of offenses.
“The price of victimization is greater than financial, and it’s important that all of us work collectively as our communities face numerous totally different challenges popping out of the pandemic, which has affected us all in myriad methods,” Burke mentioned in an announcement.
Violent crimes embody homicides, robberies, rapes and aggravated assaults.
Homicides elevated 4 % — from 49 to 51 — and robberies had been up by 15 %. The highest motives for homicides had been arguments, at 62 % of the entire instances; gang involvement, at 13 %; and home violence at 9 %, in response to the report.
Rapes decreased 11 % — from 532 to 475 — and aggravated assaults dropped by 1 %.
Most violent crimes contain aggravated assault, the report says. Regardless of the slight lower, the entire aggravated assault instances — 4,301 — was the second-highest since 2012. That was only a bit decrease than the 4,316 aggravated assaults reported within the first six months of final 12 months.
The property crime price — 15.95 per 1,000 residents — was the second-lowest since 2012, in response to the report. The best throughout that interval was recorded within the first six months of 2013, when the property crime price was 21.88 per 1,000 residents.
Property crimes embody housebreaking, larceny and car thefts. Non-residential burglaries elevated 19 % and residential burglaries dropped by 2 %.
Larceny — which incorporates shoplifting and theft from autos — decreased 6 %.
Automobile thefts had been up 4 %. The overall — 5,678 — was the second-highest since 2012, in response to the report.
Researchers famous that violent and property crimes are underreported. They cited a Bureau of Justice Statistics examine that discovered that 1 in 5 of each violent crime and 1 in 3 of each property crime are reported to regulation enforcement.
