The Antioch Police Department will report to the City Council on Tuesday that overall crime in the city is down 0.7% in the first six months of 2014 when compared to 2013. Meanwhile, calls for service are also down 3.5%.
According to the statistics that range from January -June, Total Violent Crime is down 15.7% while Total Property Crime is up 2.9%. Homicide is down 57.1%, Rape up 400%, Robbery down 16.4%, Aggravated Assault down 22.5%, Burglary down 2.8%, Theft up 3.3%, Auto Theft up 11.1%.
Arrests are also up 6.8% as they made 129 more arrested in the first six months of 2014 (2,028) when compared to 2013 (1,899).
Police have also highlighted Violent Crime – Shootings which shows there has been a total of 41 shootings in Antioch between January-June. Statistics shows 15 of the shootings have occurred in the Sycamore Corridor and 26 occurred in all other areas of Antioch. June alone had 13 of the shootings.
Statistics also show there has been no increase in shootings when compared to the same time period last year. Between January 1-July 7, the City of Antioch has had 47 shooting. The report did say that in 2014, Antioch has had 5 more shootings than the City of Richmond.
Here is a look at some of the slides to be presented Tuesday:
To review all slides, please visit the Antioch City Council Agenda for July 22, 2014.
Click here: http://www.ci.antioch.ca.us/CityGov/agendas/CityCouncil/2014/agendas/072214/072214.pdf
10 comments
Either ECT is actually reporting news that others do not or the stats are skewed. I am a bit dumbfounded how with all the violence lately crime is not up. I think its sad we have more shootings than Richmond.
These stats are skewed and if rape is up 400% then we have some serious issues. Why I believe the numbers are being played with is because you have stats from Jan-June, but you have shootings through July 7? Why are they different date ranges? Hmmm maybe the Mayor can explain that.
Interesting, why did Chief do that?
Remember filled positions include those officers on disability etc so there are really only 69. And it includes the chief and a couple of officer positions that may not be on the street
He probably did it because his “boss” Harper demanded it. Politics man… they needed something to get the public to calm down.
Mayor Harper must be doing the calculations here because I can tell you from experience its not getting better and its probably worse than the stats are showing. I think an audit is needed to show the public just how skewed these figures are and were probably fixed.
Don’t know if you remember but we had a crap load of shooting and violent crime last year, the year before , and the year before that, ect….. It has just been so hyped up recently due to the amount in such a short time. Do you have any insight on stats Eric C???? The numbers for rape are a combined forced rape and statutory rape. Antioch gets a lot of statutory rape stats like parents catching 16 year old daughter having sex with 16 year old boyfriend. It is stated as a rape. Not saying there is still not a problem but just not what it appears.
ANTIOCH is the place 2 be.. im a live and die out here
Only an idiot would truly believe these stats are accurate. Only crime supports would parade around showing off these stats.
Which categor do you think the Mayor and City Council fall in?
The numbers are deceiving because a crime of 2 in a year changing to a crime of 10 brings stats up by 500 percent yet only 8 more incidents took place. I see they missed stats on those high priority far east calls such as restraining orders, harassment, and terrorist threats.
Hmmmm. So It’s just fireworks in 10 shot bursts I hear every night. I live right off Sycampre and we LOVE our fireworks!!!
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