Oakland Crime Stats, November 2009
November 16, 2009 by V Smoothe · 114 Comments
2009 is quickly coming to a close, and if things keep going the way they have been, it looks like we’re going to end the year with a substantially lower number of reported crimes than last year.
Oakland Crime Stats Update, October edition
October 14, 2009 by V Smoothe · 67 Comments
It’s that time again. Our always exciting monthly check-in on Oakland crime stats.
Oakland Crime Stats Update, September edition
September 18, 2009 by V Smoothe · 38 Comments
I didn’t do one of these last month, since Vivek B. stepped in with his excellent (and far more detailed) crime numbers analysis.
Anyway, here you go. As of September 16th:
Crime Stats Update, July 2009
July 3, 2009 by V Smoothe · 9 Comments
All that talk about crime in the comments on the last post reminded me that it’s about time for our monthly crime check-in. Reported Part I crime continues to be down compared to last year, although the trend of creeping closer to 2008 totals continues this month. Just a little bit, though.
Crime Stats Check In, June Edition
June 9, 2009 by V Smoothe · 68 Comments
The good news is that crime continues to be down compared to this time last year, by a little over 15%.
New and improved Crimespotting
June 3, 2009 by V Smoothe · 32 Comments
I’m sure most of my readers are familiar by now with the extremely cool website Oakland Crimespotting, which provides attractive, user-friendly, and fast loading incident maps, offering Oakland residents a visual picture of what kind of crime is being reported in their neighborhoods.
Crime stats check-in, May edition
May 8, 2009 by V Smoothe · 40 Comments
When we last looked at reported crimes in Oakland year against year, violent crime in 2009 was down around 13% compared to 2008, while property crime was down 25%. Let’s see how we’re doing now. Reported crimes as of May 6 (XLS):
It doesn’t have to be this bad. Really.
March 26, 2009 by V Smoothe · 99 Comments
Root causes this, demographics that. Why is it that one can’t ever point out that violent crime in Oakland is inexcusably high without getting an almost immediate response about how we just can’t help it? Do most Oakland residents simply not care because they aren’t the ones getting shot? Do they really think the problem is so inevitable that they’re resigned to living with it, as long as they don’t have to think about it too much? Has the entire citizenry been infected with some kind of massive municipal version of Stockholm Syndrome by the City’s leadership, who spent the better part of 2008 telling us that crime was flat as if that were some kind of accomplishment?
Oakland Crime Stats Update, March 2009
March 16, 2009 by V Smoothe · 24 Comments
Apologies for the light posting last week and technical problems on Friday. I believe the issue has now been resolved and hopefully it will not happen again. Light posting, however, can probably be expected for the rest of the week, as I’m kind of swamped through Sunday. For now, I offer a crime stats update.
Oakland Crime Stats Update, February 2009
February 26, 2009 by V Smoothe · 10 Comments
The Mayor announced in his State of the City address last month that he was going to cut crime in Oakland by 10% this year. Outgoing Police Chief Wayne Tucker told an audience last need that he believed it the benchmark was attainable. Let’s take a look and see how we’re doing so far, shall we?
Oakland’s “shrinking” population and the American Community Survey
December 15, 2008 by V Smoothe · 32 Comments
So, after much discussion last week over whether or not Oakland is experiencing an “exodus” due to crime, we now have a Trib article weighing in with Census Bureau data suggesting Oakland’s population has decreased dramatically since 2000. First, I’ll note that the Census Bureau’s official 2007 population estimate for Oakland is 401,489, not 372,000 as the article suggests. So where does the smaller figure come from?
2007 City Crime Rankings Released
November 24, 2008 by V Smoothe · 42 Comments
And Oakland moves down a slot, to number five on the list!
Doubtlessly, this news will result in the same litany of excuses from the Mayor and Police Chief that we heard last year about how the rankings (PDF) aren’t accurate and besides, most of the good citizens of Oakland can rest easy at night, safe and sound, because crime isn’t a problem in their neighborhood. Remember this gem from last year: Read more
