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Report: Crime On The Decline In Escambia County
August 2, 2014
The latest numbers released Friday by the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office show a downward trend in the number of crimes in the county.
The semi-annual Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) statistics for the first half of 2014indicate the number of violent crimes in Escambia County decreased by 16.2 percent with the total index crimes down 11.4 percent compared to the first half of 2013. Other positive trends included a reduction in property crimes by10 percent. Most significantly, instances of robbery fell by nearly 40 percent.
Homicides were down 22 percent from nine in the first half of 2013 to seven in the first half of 2014. Forcible sex offenses were down 15 percent, while aggravated assault/battery crimes dropped 8.6 percent. Burglaries dropped 12.9 percent, larcenies were down about 9 percent and motor vehicle thefts dropped about 20 percent.
The number of arrests were also down, adults by 16.1 percent and juveniles by 21.5 percent.
The Escambia Count Sheriff’s Office submits the semi-annual crime stats to to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
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10 Responses to “Report: Crime On The Decline In Escambia County”
Given the number of murders in Escambia County, FL I find it hard to swallow that crime numbers are down. Half of the news cast each night is taken with robbery here, assault and battery there, murder everywhere. It would seem someone has really massaged the numbers to justify this report. It’s never a vote getting situation for our elected law enforcement officials to admit overall crime is up. Like Pensacola historically has not had a gang problem.
Molino Jim, you reminded me of the pity I have for all the drivers who can’t get their turn signals to work, Just Like spellchecks. (not that we don’t all do it from time to time)
@ Oh please– please re-read my comment. No where in it did I say dispatchers are “idiots”. People who call in tell the dispatchers what they want to. There is no way the dispatcher can tell if the person is telling them what truly happen. Also sorry your “Spell check” is broken.
Perhaps the crime rate is down.
The bad part is the crime rate is still 5 to 6 times worse per 100k population t=in Escambia versus Baldwin and Santa Rosa counties.
Here is for a better understanding of Part 1 index crimes and Part 2:
For reporting purposes, criminal offenses are divided into two major groups: Part I offenses and Part II offenses.
In Part I, the UCR indexes reported incidents in two categories: violent and property crimes. Aggravated assault, forcible rape, murder, and robbery are classified as violent while arson, burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft are classified as property crimes. These are reported via the document named Return A – Monthly Return of Offenses Known to the Police. Part 1 crimes are collectively known as Index crimes, this name is used because the crimes are considered quite serious, tend to be reported more reliably than others, and are reported directly to the police and not to a separate agency (ex- IRS) that doesn’t necessarily contribute to the UCR.
In Part II, the following categories are tracked: simple assault, curfew offenses and loitering, embezzlement, forgery and counterfeiting, disorderly conduct, driving under the influence, drug offenses, fraud, gambling, liquor offenses, offenses against the family, prostitution, public drunkenness, runaways, sex offenses, stolen property, vandalism, vagrancy, and weapons offenses.
Part 1 only deals with the violent and property crimes and Part 2 is gathered but not used by FBI to track crime. Hopefully this will clear up some confusion by those that don’t know what is being talked about.
Molino jim— You sound like 1 of the people who like to miss lead the public to re – elect Morgan …. You are basically calling the dispatcher’ s idiots because they can’t tell the difference between a theft and a robbery. And yes there are shootings every night and robberies and the deputies can’t just run blue lights to everything it’s against there policy. Most times the don’t even use there blue lights for a robbery. Mainly for shootings, stabbings , officer in trouble and home invasions. Believe it or not we live in a violent county 1 of the most violent in the state. And no way around that it’s a fact.
@Jason– “calls for service” can be calls that would not show up on crime reports. A missing child or mentally ill person, traffic control, plus many other calls for service. @AJ when a call goes out for a crime and officers respond with blue lights on, some times it’s found the caller over stated the reason for the call. People have been know the find their newspaper missing and call in a robbery, the dispatcher does the best they can. A simple fight gets called as shots fired and everyone is gone by the time the officers get there.
Just weeks ago the Sheriff was stating a need for 15 additional deputies in next years budget. If crime us down so much why would he need additional deputies?
Something does smell right with the Sheriff’s latest trumpet blowing announcing that crime is down. Especially when the “calls for service” have increased. Maybe the forgot to include one months crime statistics?!? LOL
If crime is down why are all the deputy’s and police , troopers and DOT officers going up and down the road with blue lights on… I don’t buy these numbers. Must be gettin close to election year…
It’s hard for me to believe these numbers.. I thought they would be up..