Antioch Police Department reported Tuesday night that overall crime in Antioch is down 6.3% from 2013 to 2014.
According to stats provided by police:
- The City has 3 less homicides (9 in 2014 versus 12 in 2013)
- The City had 9.1% less robbery (320 in 2014 versus 352 in 2013)
- The City had 16.3% less aggravated assault (466 in 2014 versus 557 in 2013)
With regards to property crimes, overall, the city saw a reduction by 5.6 percent.
- Burglaries were down 2.5% (1317 in 2014 versus 1351 in 2013)
- Thefts were down 1.2% (1850 in 2014 versus 1872 in 2013.
- Auto thefts were down 15.9% (1023 in 2014 versus 1217 in 2013)
Police also reported that the total arrests were up 10.6% in 2014 from 2013. Statistics highlighted police made 4,383 arrests which were up 413 from the previous year—adult arrests were up 14.2%.
The Special Operations Unit in Antioch reported the following:
- Search Warrants: 26
- Probation/Parole Searches: 41
- Marijuana Grows: 13
- Marijuana (Plants) Seized: 6,925
- Marijuana (Processed) Seized: 16.6 lbs)
- Meth Seized: 18.1 oz
- Cocaine Seized: 3.2 oz
- Heroin Seized: 0.7 oz
- Steroids: 7 vials
- Steroids: 9 pill bottles
- Guns Seized: 38
Antioch Police also netted 9 operations resulting in 9 arrests of fugitives while overall calls for service increased 0.6% where in 2014, they received 80,407 calls. The average response time in 2014 was 10:36 minutes whereas in 2013, the response time averaged 10:30.
Since June, the Antioch Police have been conducting weekly crime suppression details where they held 33 operations. Those operations netted 157 cases along with 196 arrests, 28 guns seized, and 49 citations.
The Chief also reported that the department has 102 authorized sworn positions; however, just 90 are filled. He noted that 3 recruits began the academy on January 26, 2015.
Editors Note:
Comcast was down yesterday so we will further update this when the City of Antioch makes their council meeting video available.
5 comments
Good Work, any news in the positive direction in crime reduction is a pulse. Response time is horrible! Better response time from APD will immediately effect every crime statistic listed above. More importantly the public would really appreciate it.
Question: As far as actual man power on the street. How much better is Antioch PD today compared to the last couple years?
I understand APD has added a few new Officers over the last year or so, but adding 1 to 3 Officers is futile when fitting attrition. Honestly a recruit class of 10-15 Officers hitting the streets of Antioch would create a huge impact in fighting crime. The kind of huge impact the people in the City of Antioch are looking for. Not to mention that every crime statistics, that the City of Antioch published would improve exponentially.
There do seem to be more officers visible. Kudo’s Chief.
J Salazar. @ to answer your question about manpower on the street. In the early 1990s APD had approx 85-90 sworn officers. APD peeked with about 120 officers in about 2007 or 2008. Now they are back down to 90. They will continue to lose officers at the rate that they fill them. This is an unfortunately cycle. Dont know if Antioch will ever climb out of the toilet
Yes it is a cycle we are going through. The older officers are tired of it and want out. Unfortunately we did not see the writing on the wall and start recruiting 2 years before since it takes so long to post, hire and train an officer. We had the money because they certainly found money for other things. The money was in the budget for x amount of officers on the force period. Now if they will only hire a lot of CSO’s and get officers on the street.
Most of the older officers are long gone. The police department saw the writing on The wall but unfortunately were not able to hire. CSOs are a great asset and unfortunately they were the first to go. You have to balance hiring CSOs and officers. The city is in a bad spot and I think it it past the point of no return. You drive around the city and see nothing but trash in the gutters and people loitering. Romis liquors looks like it was picked up out of Oakland and dropped in Antioch. You see nothing but 4-6 dope dealers posted up selling their product. This type of activity has become accepted by the citizens and government officials. The city is 60 officers short from what ois needed to start the turn around. There is no incentive to live in Antioch. The crime rate is ridiculous, the city has no businesses and the schools suck. As my screen name says “Where did Antioch go wrong.”
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