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Our Crime Analysis, Community Safety, Reentry and Justice related research cover a wide range of areas, to narrow down your search select one of the options below or browse our listing of maps, datasets and research below.
- Community Policing
- Violence Prevention
- Reentry
- Homicides
- Violent Crime
- Property Crime
2011 Oakland Crime Review
In 2011, Oakland experienced a number of changes in crime patterns when compared to previous years. Overall, reported violent crime in 2011 was almost identical in volume to 2010 with 6,805 reports, while property crimes saw a 5.4% increase over the prior year, up to 25,995. Major changes in citywide indicators included a drastic jump in assaults with a firearm [245(a)(2)] up 25.5% in 2010, and up 27.6% compared to the previous five-year average. Domestic violence saw a marked drop of almost 20 percent, which is the unusual due to the fact that domestic violence is the only crime benchmark that typically increases with high unemployment levels. Likewise, reported incidences of rape were down 26.3%, and both drugs and prostitution saw large drops of 43.4% and 16.8%, respectively. However, there is a caveat that comes with drug and vice crime report statistics: reported drug and vice crimes are almost entirely dependent on police action--no active raids or stings effectively means no crime from a pure statistical perspective.
While in-home robbery was down from a high in 2010, the 198 reports still represent a 32.9% increase compared to the past five years. Carjackings declined compared to 2010, and over previous years, down 24.5% from 2010 to 2011 (188).
To see how crime was distributed across the city and how it changed according to police beats, read our related post on beat level crime maps.
Download the full table of data in a Google spreadsheet here.
* Over/Under compares the change in 2011 from the previous 5-year average.
* Note these totals are based on all reported crimes provided by OPD and will not accurately reflect official UCR reported totals due to
methodology differences. These numbers represent total counts of reports of each crime type.
Download the full PDF version of the 2011 Oakland Crime Calendars here.
Oakland Crime Maps for 2011 by Police Beat
Like most measures of social outcomes and neighborhood indicators, crime is not evenly dispersed across the city, so a citywide average does not speak to the reality of every neighborhood in the same way. Our beat level crime maps are powerful tools for examining distribution and change in crime across our city. In 2011 we saw shifts in crime in both the flatlands and the hills, and with some crimes that saw drops overall there were certain neighborhoods that experienced marked increases in these very crimes.
These maps represent crime reports that have been aggregated to police beats for a number of key crime types including robbery, shootings, burglary, property and violent crimes as well as homicides. The accompanying table shows the beat level report summaries for the city as a whole. You can download the complete set of beat level maps here (large 12MB PDF) or click on the maps for a popup slideshow in your browser.
To see a summary table of all crimes in Oakland compared with the past three years and our innovative Crime Calendars check out this post.
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2011 Violent Crime
Oakland Stressors - 2011 Model Update
The City of Oakland and Urban Strategies Council have developed a new Stressor model for the city using the latest available neighborhood data.
This model provides a rank for every Community Police Beat in Oakland that indicates the relatively high or low levels of 'stress' on a neighborhood. The new model has been adjusted to account for newly available data and also certain data such as poverty that are no longer available from the Census Bureau. The indicators of stress include arrests, crime reports, food stamp recipients, youth incarceration and probation, violent suspensions and chronic absence for OUSD students.
Each Community Police Beat is ranked from 1 through to 57 with 1 indicating the most stressed beat in the city. Beat 34X is the highest ranked beat in 2011.
2011 Top 5 Beats
1 34X
2 30X
3 29X
4 35X
5 06XLost Youth: Homicides in California Youth Populations in 2010
The Violence Policy Center has released a new report on the homicides of youth in California with data from 2000-2010. Sadly Alameda County ranked #2 in their 2010 data for ths rates of youth homicide.
In 2010 there were 55 youth aged between 10 and 24 killed in Alameda County, 96% were male and 67% were black.
The report suggests that:
Finally, this year’s county-by-county rankings also point to the continuing urgent need for tailored, localized approaches to reducing youth homicide that integrate prevention and intervention while
engaging local leaders and community stakeholders. At the same time, state and regional policies
should incorporate elements necessary to help ensure effective community practices.
Full report here as a PDF.
2010 Oakland Homicide Report
It's almost the end of 2011 and perhaps a strange time to release a report on an issue so immediate and dire as homicides in our city for the past year, but due to data flow and multiple priorities for our team we're only just getting to our update of this valuable report. This report presents the available data on homicides occurring in Oakland in 2010 and is made possible through the detailed data maintained by OPD's Homicide Branch. Urban Strategies Council has been producing these reports for several years and we'll be updating this new site with our historical reports very soon too. A few key highlights are included in this article, download the PDF for the entire report.
City Wide: Homicides Declined on a Yearly Basis from 2006 to 2010, Yet Remained High
In Oakland in 2010, 90 people lost their lives to violence, while in the 5 year period between 2006 and 2010, our community lost 594 people. Despite these staggering statistics, the numbers killed have been declining on a yearly basis during this period.
Count of Homicides Per Year
Oakland Crime Hot Spot Maps for the 3rd Quarter of 2011
These crime report hot spot maps were developed for the Oakland Police Department to aid with intelligence-led policing efforts, to provide resource management support and to aid in targeting crime suppression tactics. These hot spot maps depict crime reports of: Violent Crime, Property Crime and Burglary and are arranged by Command Areas for the 3rd Quarter of 2011. A hot spot is an area with a higher intensity of crime than the surrounding area and is useful as a visual guide to identify areas of high crime incidence.
Click on this first map to help you determine which command area a given part of the city is in.
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Oakland Crime Maps for the 3rd Quarter of 2011 by Police Beat
In addition to our yearly hot spot analysis and weekly maps and analyses, we are releasing quarterly crime hot spot maps and beat level summary maps for the Oakland Police Department (OPD). The OPD uses these maps to plan for the seasonal shifts in crime across the city and to evaluate crime prevention and suppression efforts throughout the year. These quarterly maps are released publicly to inform public policy, community awareness and decision making in public agencies.
To see a summary table of all crimes in Oakland compared with the past three years or our innovative Crime Calendars check out this post.
These maps represent crime reports that have been aggregated by police beats for a number of key crime types including robbery, shootings, burglary, homicide and all violent crimes. You can download the complete set of beat level maps here (large 15MB PDF) or click on the maps for a popup slide show in your browser.
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Violent Crime
The FBI have just released their latest Uniform Crime Reports data for City and County crime reports (FBI site), so we have updated our Violent Crimes in Alameda County fact sheet for 2010. This brief report presents an overview of violent crimes in various cities in the county from 2001-2010. This fact sheet is an important tool for stakeholders seeking to implement effective violence prevention programs in their neighborhoods.
Some of the main highlights from the factsheet include:
- Since 2008, Alameda County's violent crime rate declined by just 18%, nearly twice the decline seen in the USA and California overall.
- In 2010 Alameda County's violent crime rate exceeded the statewide rate by 50%.
- In 2010 Oakland ranked as the most violent city in California with a rate of 1,529 violent crimes per 100,000 people. (See the Business Times article here for comparisons)
- Over the ten-year period Oakland contributed on average 77% of the murders in the County.
Violent Crime Rate per 100,000 People from 2001 to 2010 in Alameda County
Oakland Crime Maps for the 2nd Quarter of 2011 by Police Beat
In addition to our yearly hot spot analysis and weekly maps and analyses, we are releasing quarterly crime hot spot maps and beat level summary maps for the Oakland Police Department (OPD). The OPD uses these maps to plan for the seasonal shifts in crime across the city and to evaluate crime prevention and suppression efforts throughout the year. These quarterly maps are released publicly to inform public policy, community awareness and decision making in public agencies.
To see a summary table of all crimes in Oakland compared with the past three years or our innovative Crime Calendars check out this post.
These maps represent crime reports that have been aggregated by police beats for a number of key crime types including robbery, shootings, burglary, homicide and all violent crimes. You can download the complete set of beat level maps here (large 15MB PDF) or click on the maps for a popup slide show in your browser.
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Violent Crime
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