Uniform Crime Reports of La Mesa Police and Index from 1985 to 2005

Uniform Crime Reports and Index of Crime in La Mesa in the State of Californi enforced by La Mesa Police from 1985 to 2005

Number of Violent Crimes Reported by La Mesa Police by Year and Total

Year	Population	Murder/ Man- slaughter	Rape	Robbery	Aggravated Assault	Total Violent Crime
2005	54,213	2	10	107	82	201
2004	55,201	0	10	72	118	200
2003	55,543	2	12	66	93	173
2002	56,760	2	11	89	105	207
2001	55,766	0	14	70	121	205
2000	54,749	2	15	97	104	218
1995	54,589	1	4	113	156	274
1990	52,931	1	13	100	172	286
1985	54,860	1	10	51	71	133
1980	49,944	0	13	125	42	180

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In 1930, the FBI assumed responsibility for managing the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program, collecting data from 400 cities. By 2006, over 15,000 law enforcement agencies submitted crime reports to the FBI, but since not all jurisdictions provide reports there is a possibility that you won't find complete data on some of our agency crime report pages. In every case where the FBI has assigned a population to a jurisdiction, we are providing a page even though it may be blank. When a city located in a county starts submitting its own reports, the population assigned to the county is reduced to reflect that fact.

Number of Property Crimes Reported by La Mesa Police by Year and Total

UCR Crime Statistics prepared by the:
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Index of the State of Californi Uniform Crime Reports

Index of United State's Crime Reports

Year	Population	Burglary	Larceny Theft	Vehicle Theft	Total Property Crime
2005	54,213	328	1,345	556	2,229
2004	55,201	393	1,285	534	2,212
2003	55,543	358	1,214	554	2,126
2002	56,760	375	1,410	365	2,150
2001	55,766	345	1,303	371	2,019
2000	54,749	397	1,141	330	1,868
1995	54,589	622	1,543	524	2,689
1990	52,931	716	1,888	782	3,386
1985	54,860	620	1,428	321	2,369
1980	49,944	930	1,550	289	2,769

The UCR can be presented here because of the hard work of law enforcement statisticians who must classify and score each crime according to the strict criteria developed for the UCR. Some agency's crime reports do not have a population associated with them, these may include: the highway patrol, state police, a drug enforcement agency, an environmental enforcement agency, a transportation utility, colleges, and others. Areas may have many agencies performing the same or different law enforcement functions, and a population can only be assigned once, so it is not possible to formulate a crime rate for every agency.

Violent Crime Index base upon 100,000 People

Year	Population	Murder/ Man- slaughter	Rape	Robbery	Aggravated Assault	Total Violent Crime
2005	54,213	3.7	18.4	197.4	151.3	370.8
2004	55,201	0.0	18.1	130.4	213.8	362.3
2003	55,543	3.6	21.6	118.8	167.4	311.5
2002	56,760	3.5	19.4	156.8	185.0	364.7
2001	55,766	0.0	25.1	125.5	217.0	367.6
2000	54,749	3.7	27.4	177.2	190.0	398.2
1995	54,589	1.8	7.3	207.0	285.8	501.9
1990	52,931	1.9	24.6	188.9	325.0	540.3
1985	54,860	1.8	18.2	93.0	129.4	242.4
1980	49,944	0.0	26.0	250.3	84.1	360.4

Knowing the trend of the rate of crime can be an important measure of the social health of our communities. An unusually high rate may be caused by an isolated tragic event, the location of the jurisdiction in an area with a large industrial zone or that serves as a tourist destination, and a low rate may be caused by the assignment of crimes to multiple agencies serving the same area, only one of which can be assigned the population, or an error in the number of crimes reported.

Property Crime Index per 100,000 People

Year	Population	Burglary	Larceny Theft	Vehicle Theft	Total Property Crime
2005	54,213	605.0	2,481.0	1,025.6	4,111.6
2004	55,201	711.9	2,327.9	967.4	4,007.2
2003	55,543	644.5	2,185.7	997.4	3,827.7
2002	56,760	660.7	2,484.1	643.1	3,787.9
2001	55,766	618.7	2,336.5	665.3	3,620.5
2000	54,749	725.1	2,084.1	602.8	3,411.9
1995	54,589	1,139.4	2,826.6	959.9	4,925.9
1990	52,931	1,352.7	3,566.9	1,477.4	6,397.0
1985	54,860	1,130.1	2,603.0	585.1	4,318.3
1980	49,944	1,862.1	3,103.5	578.6	5,544.2

The UCR does not include a record of every crime reported to law enforcement, and every agency does not submit data in the form that the FBI requests. The most accurate number of crimes reported are those involving death. The least accurate is the number of rapes that are reported. The the number of case of rape reported does not include attempted rapes. Aggravated Assault does not include cases of simple assault, (which are the largest number of assaults reported to police) and so constitutes only a portion of the total number of reported assaults. The number of Aggravated Assaults used here was arrived at by subtracting the number of Simple Assaults from the Total Assaults reported by each agency. For a few agencies, this process resulted in the generation of a negative number (their UCR report wrongly indicates that there were more simple assaults than the total number of reported assaults).

The magnitude of a threat/risk is measured by its frequency and effect. By this definition crime may well constitute the single greatest risk/threat we face today. If you have questions, comments, or suggestions, please see our FAQ page first at: http://www.disastercenter.com/UCR.html and feel free to post a message to host@disastercenter.com.

National Criminal Victimization Survey, 1996 estimate that only 37% of rapes are reported to police

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