Violent crimes up in Pasadena, L.A County
Alfred Lee has the story in today's paper (and online). The short summary: Pasadena's violent crime is up 22 percent, even as property crime dropped. How did the city compare with surrounding areas? Alfred gets into that lower in the story:
After Pasadena, Alhambra reported the area's next-highest number of violent crimes in 2007, with 285. That was a slight decrease from 2006, when 297 such crimes were reported.
Duarte recorded the largest drop in violent crimes among surrounding cities - from 123 in 2006 to 84 in 2007, a decline of 32 percent.
Sierra Madre, meanwhile, experienced the highest number of violent crimes - 23 - in at least a decade. The city's number of violent crimes typically is in the single digits, but last year Sierra Madre had 19 aggravated assaults. Four forcible rapes occurred last year, the FBI numbers show.
La Ca ada Flintridge saw a 28 percent increase in property crimes, from 336 in 2006 to 431 in 2007, while the property crimes in South Pasadena dropped 30 percent, from 627 to 436, respectively, last year.
Crime numbers increased in Los Angeles County as a whole in 2007, with violent crimes and property crimes rising about 7 percent and 2 percent from the year before.
I don't see any pattern. I wonder if any crime experts have ever figured out if city crime rates just fluctuate by chance on an annual basis, or if there is always an explanation for it.
UNDER THE DOME
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