City-Wide Crime Statistics and Data Extracts - Sacramento Police Department

City-Wide Statistics and Data Extracts

Year-to-Date Crime Statistics
Annual Crime Statistics
Crime Report and Dispatch Data Extracts

Year-to-Date Crime Statistics

Total Part I Crimes (Year to Date)

Year-to-Date Comparison	March 2011	March 2012	# Change	% Change
Homicide	11	8	-3	-27.3%
Rape	29	29	0	0.0%
Robbery	265	275	10	3.8%
Aggravated Assault	510	509	-1	-0.2%
Burglary	1,081	944	-137	-12.7%
Larceny	2,497	2,915	418	16.7%
Motor Vehicle Theft	719	912	193	26.8%
Year-to-Date Total	5,112	5,592	480	9.4%

Crime statistics represent data that has been verified and certified for release to the FBI. Neighborhood crime statistics are currently available in tabular representation, and will soon also be available in graphical representation.

Yearly Comparison	2010	2011	# Change	% Change
Homicide	33	37	4	12.1%
Rape	164	134	-30	-18.3%
Robbery	1,493	1,163	-330	-22.1%
Aggravated Assault	2,421	2,022	-399	-16.5%
Burglary	5,003	4,143	-860	-17.2%
Larceny	11,140	11,078	-62	-0.6%
Motor Vehicle Theft	4,005	3,335	-670	-16.7%
Arson	202	146	-56	-27.7%
Yearly Totals	24,461	22,058	-2,403	-9.8%

Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) Year-to-Year Comparison
Year	Population ¹	Homicide	Rape	Robbery	Aggravated Assault	Burglary	Larceny	Motor Vehicle Theft	Arson ²
1996	384,090	43	154	1,874	1,636	7,148	16,842	6,083	N/A
1997	387,440	41	161	1,851	1,664	6,873	17,282	6,260	N/A
1998	401,411	31	141	1,689	1,515	6,505	15,733	6,006	N/A
1999	400,665	54	143	1,450	1,437	4,805	14,761	4,460	N/A
2000	407,018	39	147	1,412	1,519	4,661	14,690	4,870	N/A
2001	415,281	40	169	1,440	1,660	5,068	15,977	6,337	N/A
2002	427,637	47	185	1,734	1,581	5,019	15,548	6,666	N/A
2003	436,470	43	187	1,630	1,560	5,606	15,374	7,286	401
2004	445,353	50	195	1,914	2,571	5,362	15,455	7,290	389
2005	453,592	52	170	2,018	3,025	5,841	13,320	6,922	352
2006	458,773	57	196	2,188	3,115	6,175	12,762	7,175	294
2007	467,120	44	194	2,009	2,881	5,422	12,904	6,073	281
2008	474,925	49	168	1,761	2,682	5,216	12,373	4,910	192
2009	481,356	31	179	1,606	2,352	5,135	11,720	4,146	168
2010	486,189	33	164	1,492	2,421	5,003	11,140	4,005	202
¹ The population figures are California Department of Finance estimates except 2000, which is a census count. Population estimates are taken as of January 1 of the respective year. ² Arson was not calculated prior to 2003.

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Crime Report and Dispatch Data Extracts

Important Information About the Data Extracts

Because this data is produced via a complex set of processes, there are many places where errors can be introduced into the data that you will be downloading. The margin of error in this data is approximately 10%. Please keep this in mind when working with these data extracts. No representation is made or implied regarding the accuracy of the data being made available.
Copies of Crime Reports are available to the public. HOWEVER, you cannot obtain a copy of a Crime Report just because you want one. To obtain a copy, you must have a legitimate need for the crime report. In other words, you have to be a victim, one of the parties involved in an accident, an attorney, insurance agent, or some other agent acting on behalf of an involved party.
The Police Department is providing this data for download under the assumption that you have the computer skills necessary to understand operations like unzipping compressed files, opening data extract files, building queries, creating reports for output to a printer, etc. The Police Department does not have staff available to assist you in downloading, using, or interpreting this data.
It is against State law (Government Code Section 6254) for us to provide victim's addresses for certain classes of crimes (mainly rape, sex or abuse-related crimes). Since the address field in the data extracts is usually that of the victim, it has been blanked out for the affected crime types. You can still research activity for those types of crimes, but location information will be limited to district, beat, or grid. This applies to the following crimes:

220 - Attempted Rape
261 - Rape
262 - Rape
264 - Rape
273 - Domestic Violence/ Child Neglect
286 - Sodomy
288 - Other Sex Crimes
289 - Other Sex Crimes
422 - Terrorist Threats
646.9 - Stalking

We began using a new Records Management System (RMS) in February, 2004. This system manages all crime and incident reports for the Police Department. As a result, our data extracts have a different format when compared to previous years. The biggest difference you'll notice is how the reports are classified: we now use a combination of FBI UCR (Uniform Crime Report) codes and State codes. See the Helpful Code Definitions section in the data extracts links below for more information.
Most law enforcement agencies have pre-defined areas for assignment and reporting purposes. For many years, the Sacramento Police Department has named these areas Sectors, Districts, and EDP's (Electronic Data Processing districts). In 2006, these areas were renamed. Sectors are now called Districts, Districts are now called Beats, and EDP's are called Grids. Districts are the largest of the areas; the City is divided into 6 Districts. The Districts are divided into Beats, which are assigned to Patrol officers. The Beats are divided into Grids for reporting purposes. Over the years, the various boundaries have changed, but the Grids have not changed significantly. As confusing as this all sounds, this information will be necessary when working with the data extracts. See the City of Sacramento Maps section in the database links below to download city maps showing the major streets, neighborhoods, EDP grids, districts, and beats.

Crime Report Data Extracts

The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) program collects data on known offenses and persons arrested. UCR data is used in law enforcement administration, operation and management, as well as to indicate the fluctuations in the level of crime throughout America. Data Extracts

Dispatch Data Extracts

The Sacramento Police Department provides downloadable Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) files. A CAD system is a highly specialized system that uses telecommunications and geographic display to support police dispatch and response functions. Data Extracts