Altadena in 2010 had an increased number of residential burglaries and thefts from vehicles, but a reduction in the rate of violent crime, according to statistics released by the Sheriff's Station this week. Gang-related crimes have also been going down for the past two years.
In violent crimes, there were no homicides in 2010 (down from one in 2009, and three in 2008), and rates of rape and robbery remained steady.
Full report after the jump.
PROPERTY CRIMES
In 2010, Altadena experienced an increase in residential burglaries and thefts from locked and unlocked vehicles. In April of 2010, we refocused the station’s efforts to address this rise in crime. We brought in additional resources and increased our partnership with the community. We ended 2010 with an increase in property crime, however we were able to significantly reduce the crime rate from April of 2010. We are continuing to focus our efforts to reduce crime during 2011. Assaults went up in 2009, and down in 2010.
CRIME RATE
APR 5 YTD DEC 31 YTD
PROPERTY CRIMES 39.1% 16.2% DECREASE OF 22.9%
BURGLARY 52.5% 14.5% DECREASE OF 38%
LARCENY THEFT 39.6% 19.3% DECREASE OF 20.3%
BURGLARY LARCENY THEFT (vehicle burglaries/thefts from unlocked vehicles, etc.)
January 12 62
February 24 43
March 29 41
April 26 32
May 39 38
June 34 41
July 13 38
August 15 27
Sept 8 37
Oct 20 29
Nov 15 16
Dec 11 25
VIOLENT CRIMES
Altadena is continuing to experience a decrease in violent crimes. We are pleased to report that there were no homicides in Altadena in 2010. We also experienced the largest decrease of Aggravated Assaults of any of the 23 Sheriff’s Stations.
% CHANGE
2008 2009 2010 2 YR 1 YR
HOMICIDE 3 1 0 -100% -100%
RAPE 5 5 4 - 20% - 20%
ROBBERY 38 34 34 - 11% 0%
ASSAULT 88 109 83 - 6% - 24%
GANG RELATED
HOMICIDE 1 1 0 -100% -100%
RAPE 0 1 0 N/C -100%
ROBBERY 10 6 3 - 70% - 50%
ASSAULT 15 21 6 - 60% - 71%
ASSAULT ROBBERY
January 9 2
February 6 2
March 10 2
April 10 1
May 9 5
June 10 2
July 5 3
August 2 2
Sept 6 3
Oct 7 2
Nov 6 6
Dec 3 4
