(Most) Things Looking Down — In A Good Way

Here’s a look at Natomas-area crime stats comparing August ’08 to August ’07. Keep in mind these are preliminary statistics and are subject to change, but not significantly. These numbers are used to recognize trends:

Police Beat 1A (North Natomas)

• Residential burglaries went down 28% (28 to 20) and is the lowest total in 4 months
• Vehicle Burglaries went down 17% (29 to 24) and is tied for the lowest monthly total all year
• Robbery unspecified went down 66% (3 to 1) and is the first time robberies went down since February and is tied for the lowest total all year.
• All 7 tracked crime categories went down in August.

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Police Beat 1B (South Natomas)

• Vehicle Burglaries went down 62% (37 to 14) and is the 2nd lowest total all year.
• Robbery unspecified went down 50% (6 to 9) and is first decrease since May and the lowest total since March.

Police Beat 1C (Gardenland/Northgate)

• Residential burglaries went up 60% (5 to 8) and is the first increase since May.
• Stolen vehicles went down 65% (29 to 10) and has decreased in every month this year.
• Robbery unspecified went down 50% (4 to 2) and is tied for the lowest month all year with January.

Citywide statistics from January through August are as follows:

• Murder up 3.1% (32 to 33)
• Rape down 25.5% (141-105)
• All Robbery down 10.4% (1,352 to 1,212)
• Total Assaults down 2.5% (4,979 to 4,855)
• Burglary down 1.6% (3,576 to 3,518)
• Larceny down 5.2% (8,846 to 8,387)
• Motor vehicle theft down 16.8% (4,153 to 3,456)