OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF POLICE
Memorandum
To: Tom Hatch, Interim City Manager
From: Dan Adams, Chief of Police
Date: February 3, 2022
Re: 2021 Crime Report / Arrests / Calls for Service (by District) ___________________________________________________________________________ Part One crimes include crimes of violence and theft of property. Overall, Part One crimes decreased 5% (135 fewer crimes) from 2020. The following is a summary of Part One crimes for 2021 in comparison to 2020 (January 1st through December 31st).
2021 Violent Crimes
Homicides increased 50% from four in 2020 to six in 2021. (All suspects were known and taken into custody or are deceased). o Four homicides occurred as a result of one mass shooting incident with a known suspect. o The second homicide case involved a murder suicide where the husband shot and killed his wife then himself.
o The third homicide case involved a domestic violence incident where an associate of the female intervened and shot and killed the ex-boyfriend. Sexual Assaults increased 67% from 12 in 2020 to 20 in 2021. o Six incidents were committed by a stranger including an Uber d river who assaulted a passenger. Two of these assaults were transient related. o One incident occurred after the victim met the suspect online. Transient suspect arrested. o Two involved family members who were arrested.
o Two were reported involving a family member or associate, but allegedly occurred in prior years.
Robberies increased 22% from 55 in 2020 to 67 in 2021. o 30 of the 67 were street robberies. One of the suspects arrested was a female from the Los Angeles area involved in over 20 similar street robberies in Los Angeles and Orang e County. There were two robberies of ride share (Uber/Lyft) drivers. o The remaining 37 robberies included 13 commercial businesses, 13 shoplift-related thefts (where force was used) and 11 related to domestic violence where suspects were known to the victim.
o Transient suspects accounted for at least five of the robberies. Additional robberies involved suspects described as possibly transient.
o There were seven carjackings during the year, with one suspect arrested for two of them. None of the victims sustained significant injuries.
2 Aggravated assaults decreased 23% from 109 in 2020 to 84 in 2021. o 23% of aggravated assaults were domestic violence related, compared with 43% in 2020. o Transient suspects committed 14% of the assaults, up from 10% in 2020. o No specific trends were noted amongst the remaining assaults.
2021 Property Crimes
Commercial burglaries decreased 35% from 351 in 2020 to 229 in 2021. o Storage unit burglaries accounted for 25% of all the commercial burglaries. In 2021 there were fewer instances of multiple storage units being burglarized during a single incident. o Excluding storage unit facilities, the most frequently burglarized locations included parking structure and/or storage at Cameo Apts at 1055 W Town and Country Rd (5), Salvation Army at 180 S Tustin St (3), and WC Smoke Labs at 849 N Tustin St (3). o Suspects were arrested in 12 commercial burglaries; four of those were transient suspects. Residential/garage burglaries decreased 25% from 153 in 2020 to 114 in 2021. o This was the second consecutive year of decreasing residential burglaries. o A total of 24 arrests were made including nine transient suspects. o The majority of the garage burglaries involved the theft of bicycles or tools. Thefts from vehicles increased 1% from 916 in 2020 to 921 in 2021. o Stolen wheels and tailgates each accounted for 15 thefts during the year. o Catalytic converter thefts continue to increase year over year with 185 in 2021 compared with 70 in 2020 and 20 in 2019. This is consistent with statewide crime trends of increased catalytic converter thefts.
o The top five locations for thefts from vehicles are all in the west end, The Outlets (11), 3063 W Chapman Ave (10), 1235 W Town and Country Rd (8), 700 W La Veta Ave (8) and 181 S Lewis St (7).
Stolen vehicles increased 5% to from 428 in 2020 to 451 in 2021. o The most frequently stolen vehicle continues to be the full-sized Chevy/GMC pickups (108 thefts in 2021).
o The top five locations for stolen vehicles are in the west end of the city. They include The Outlets (10), 3063W Chapman Ave (8), 293 N State College Blvd (8), 1967 N Main St (4) and 1235 W Trenton Ave (3).
o The 293 N State College Blvd location has the highest concentration of motorcycle thefts in the city, with six thefts at the location.
Disclaimer re statistics:
For Crime Analysis Unit (CAU) reporting purposes, crimes are counted on the first date the crime may have occurred. For Department of Justice (DOJ) purposes, crimes are counted for the date they are reported, even when they occur during a prior month or year. The CAU reports o ne crime for each event or incident. For DOJ reporting, the Records Bureau counts the number of victims for each case. For example, if a suspect hits five victims during an assault, five counts of assault are reported.
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*Reported crimes by council district may vary slightly as crime location without an exact Orange address cannot be mapped or charted.
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5 1 2 3 4 5 6
2020 1106 1404 741 290 612 146
2021 1231 2169 816 335 814 169
Arrests by Council District 2020, 2021
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Jan
2020 1,088 1,409 840 510 879 400
2021 941 1,336 738 438 702 359
Feb
2020 1,164 1,442 789 520 858 394
2021 956 1,203 642 354 677 328
Mar
2020 1,095 1,408 871 466 830 417
2021 967 1,233 756 424 660 365
Apr
2020 883 1,226 759 410 848 369
2021 1,017 1,369 733 470 775 327
May
2020 1,108 1,310 867 532 1,055 450
2021 1,138 1,506 898 554 763 388
Jun
2020 1,209 1,458 924 540 1,053 432
2021 1,016 1,345 896 453 869 386
Jul
2020 1,092 1,408 900 558 926 476
2021 1,159 1,613 925 546 832 420
Aug
2020 1,004 1,278 866 539 879 390
2021 1,318 1,425 811 419 847 402
Sep
2020 997 1,374 806 448 711 374
2021 1,277 1,435 766 501 803 383
Oct
2020 1,123 1,440 864 481 856 422
2021 1,214 1,492 841 479 836 374
Nov
2020 1,001 1,301 818 450 707 318
2021 1,125 1,600 871 470 776 392
Dec
2020 886 1,312 813 481 788 374
2021 1,070 1,480 826 496 835 361
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2020 12650 16366 10117 5935 10390 4816
2021 13198 17037 9703 5604 9375 4485
Calls For Service by Council District 2020, 2021
Calls For Service Totals