On Tuesday, Antioch Police Chief Tammany Brooks reported that Part 1 Crime in Antioch was down—by a total of 5 calls (-0.1%).
According to crime numbers, Part 1 Violent Crime was down 20% while property crime was up just 4%. Chief Brooks noted they had an increase in larceny thefts and auto theft cases resulting in the 4% increase.
“I am extremely pleased to report that our violent crime is going down, last year saw the largest reduction in violent crimes in more than 13-years,” said Brooks.
Brooks explained of the 10 homicides in Antioch in 2017, 8 of them were directly related to gang or drug activity, 1 was related to a robbery at a gas station and 1 related to a family dispute. Of the 51 rapes in 2017, 45 of them had a suspect known or related to the victim, 4 were strangers and 2 not revealed. He added that 4 of the victims had met the suspect online or through a dating app, 11 victims were assaulted after being at a party or a bar, 8 victims delayed reporting the victims (a year or more).
With regards tor assaults (316 victims/283 cases), Brooks reported that 3/4 of every assault in Antioch, the victim knew who their attacker was while 4% was gang related and 21% was an unknown attacker.
In the burglary category (a non-violent property crime), there was an increase in commercial burglaries by 56 cases, there was a large decrease in residential burglaries—down from 568 in 2016 to 339 in 2017.
“While I believe there are a number of contributing factors to this including video doorbells and video surveillance cameras, I strongly believe active neighborhood watch group, our community engaged groups who watch out for activity while its occurring played a significant role in this success,” said Brooks.
Brooks noted of the 339 homes that were burglarized last year, 1/3 of them were left unsecured (unlocked door or window).
“Just so we are clear, leaving your house unlocked with the windows open is a habit I hope we can get people to change,” said Brooks.
With regards to theft, Brooks noted that like most cities in the state, thefts are on the rise—50% of the Antioch’s thefts were items stolen out of a vehicle, 28% were shoplifting, 28% were defined as other (purse snatching, bicycle theft, laptop thefts, package theft).
Brooks shared that of the 988 vehicle thefts in 2017, almost 80% of the vehicles stolen were 10-years-old or older—most likely due to improved technology. He added that Antioch has more than 90% recovery rate of stolen vehicles, most of the vehicles are being used as temporary transportation by criminals.
Calls for Service:
In 2017, the Antioch Police Dispatch saw a drop-in call volume by 17% where they had 214,624 calls reported—in 2016, they had 258,042 calls. Of those calls that came in, 89,321 resulted in a call for service, up from the 87,285 calls in 2016 and 83,496 calls in 2015.
Brooks reported that although there is an impression that certain areas of Antioch receive more police calls than others, the numbers show that the calls for service were pretty even across all six police beats in the city.
- Beat 1: 15.67%
- Beat 2: 17.90%
- Beat 3: 15.68%
- Beat 4: 14.80%
- Beat 5: 17.57%
- Beat 6: 18.37%
Police Staffing:
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The police department continues to recruit and in 2017 they had 828 applicants—78 placed on eligibility list. Between Nov. 2013 – Dec. 2017, they have hired 50 officers (net change of and increase in 12 officers)
In 2017, the police department ended with 94 officers, although they are authorized for 103-officers.
Response Times:
In 2017, the average response time was 8:46 minutes—down from 2014 where the average call time was 10:36 minutes. Call dispatched to officer arrival was down to 5:02 minutes in 2017.
Traffic Camera’s
In the 15-months on the Sycamore Corridor, they have helped result in 158 arrests and 96 cases. Meanwhile, in the 6-months in the Cavallo area, it has resulted in 43 arrests, 30 cases.
Other Notable tidbits:
- 5206 moving violation citations
- 166 DUI arrests
- 15 arrests for sideshows/donuts
- K9 unit deployed 627 times, 225 arrests
- 2450 cases filed with District Attorney Office
- 99 Search Warrants Written/Served
- 33 Arrest Warrants Written/Served
- Parking Enforcement (12,084)
- 3,080 tickets
- 2,277 GOA
- 1,040 tagged
- 1,565 tows (30 a week average)
- Use of Force
- 89,321 calls for service, 80 resulted in use of force
- Citizen Complaint
- 89,321 calls for service, 47 citizen complaints (0.05%)
- Animal Services
- Animal Intake – 3,014
- Animals Reunited with owner – 490
- Public Adoptions – 887
- Adoptions to transfer partners – 1,112
- Deceased animal impounds – 523
- Animal control calls for service – 1,759
- Life Release Rate at 87.48% (better than Contra Costa County at 84%)
6 comments
Why The Police or The City of Antioch dont tire More polices ???
they must have the money after the approved preposition.
Not to rain on “Tammany’s Parade”, we appreciate his effort put forth but him saying something has decreased by a certain percentage sounds “more palatable” than saying the actual numbers for example it sounds better and makes him look better when he says Rapes decreased by 7.1%, but there were still 51 Rapes, no matter how Mr. T twists the numbers. “Numbers don’t lie, but liars count/figure numbers”.
Voters were also “promised” their YES votes on Measure C would allow for 22 additional officers to be street ready, immediate “boots on the ground” if it passed — never happened, in fact, the actual number of authorized officers decreased from the area of 122 to 103 — AND they fail to point out that number includes all officers from the Chief on down, the public is led to believe that the 103 authorized means there are 103 officers working the street — which is not the case.
Every ONE Must Understand That California has dumb down crime with Prop. 47, which made a lot of felonies now misdemeanors. So honestly is crime really down? NO! Smoke and Mirrors! So even with re-classifying crime it’s only down 20%. Miserable, Disgusting, we need to do better. However everyone needs to support the APD.
Every ONE Must Understand That California has dumb down crime with Prop. 47, which made a lot of felonies now misdemeanors. So honestly is crime really down? NO! Smoke and Mirrors! So even with re-classifying crime it’s only down 20%. Miserable, Disgusting, we need to do better. However everyone needs to support the APD.
J sala….felony or misdemeanor…
Still part of crime stats. I am more concerned about prop c money and how the city manipulated the distribution of those tax dollars…
“Administration”….what a crock…wonder why I thought they would do what the voters requested???
There is no way Antioch Animal Services or Contra Costa Shelter in Martinez have those Life Release numbers in the 80% range. God, get real with the facts and numbers.
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