Questions about 911?
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- Written by Karen Ivy Karen Ivy
- Published: 19 July 2018 19 July 2018
- Last Updated: 19 July 2018 19 July 2018
- Created: 19 July 2018 19 July 2018
The speaker at the Greater Rockridge NCPC’s August 9 meeting will be Gina Wong, OPD Communications Dispatcher. The NCPC has asked her to discuss issues such as:
- How many calls do they get? How do they assign call priorities?
- Staffing and training – what is the timeframe for recruitment and hiring?
- When you call 911, what do they want to know? Why do they ask that? How do they hand off calls for dispatch?
- What’s the issue with calling 911 from a cell phone? What is the non-emergency number for?
Ms. Wong will also take questions. Join us at 7:30 PM on August 9, in the conference room of the Rockridge Library, for this interesting subject.
Monthly Crime Stats - June 2018
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- Written by Karen Ivy Karen Ivy
- Parent Category: Resources Resources
- Published: 06 July 2018 06 July 2018
- Last Updated: 06 July 2018 06 July 2018
- Created: 06 July 2018 06 July 2018
The monthly crime statistics for June 2018, for beats 12Y and 13X, are now available on http://rockridgencpc.com, under Resources > Crime Stats and Maps > Rockridge Crime Trends 2017-2018. Here’s a direct link to the page: http://tinyurl.com/gt32u7w
Here is a direct link to the document:
If May was a slow month for crime in beat 12Y, June has come roaring back, at least for both types of property crime. Ordinary property crimes roughly doubled, from 8 in May to 17 in June. Auto related property crimes roughly tripled, from 9 to 28. Other classes of crime increased only slightly or remained flat. Beat 13X had a total of 9 reported crimes for the entire month.
Five Years of Crime Statistics
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- Written by Karen Ivy Karen Ivy
- Parent Category: Resources Resources
- Published: 09 June 2018 09 June 2018
- Last Updated: 09 June 2018 09 June 2018
- Created: 09 June 2018 09 June 2018
Ed. Note: I wrote this article in early May 2018, when I only had 2018 statistics through April. I now have full numbers for May and have updated the tables to reflect them. May was a very slow month and has changed some minimum values. |
Five years. That’s how long I’ve been keeping statistics of crime in Rockridge. I realized recently that while I’ve been publishing lists of reported crimes, and while I’ve been keeping a tally of how many crimes were reported in each of the 4 general categories I track, I haven’t looked at overall monthly trends. I recently added monthly totals to my master spreadsheet, and calculated for each year the maximum, minimum, and average number of monthly crime totals. Tabulated below are the numbers, with months in which the maximum and minimum number of crimes were reported.
Year |
Average crimes per month |
Maximum crimes per month, and month |
Minimum crimes per month, and month |
2014 |
74 |
103, Dec. |
61, June |
2015 |
83 |
109, April |
58, Sept. |
2016 |
70 |
95, Nov. |
49, March |
2017 |
84 |
105, Feb. |
72, Oct. |
2018 Through May |
42 |
64, March |
32, May |
The crime numbers in this analysis are only crimes reported to the Oakland Police. If you didn’t report it, we don’t know about it.
The real question is, what kinds of crime? The NCPC crime statistics group crime reports into 4 categories. These aren’t official police categories, but are developed by the NCPC for convenience. Official statistics group crimes by the penal code sections that they violate.
NCPC Categories:
- Crimes against the person – robberies, assaults, domestic violence
- Property crimes – thefts, burglaries, and shoplifting
- Auto related property crimes – car thefts and break-ins
- Quality of life crimes – vandalism including graffiti, littering, public drunkenness, disorderly behavior
This report will concentrate on beat 12Y (outlined in red in the map shown by the link) because that’s where most of the crimes happen. Beat 13X continues to experience far fewer crimes in all categories.
We are most concerned about crimes against the person. Here are the numbers since 2014:
Crimes against the person, beat 12Y |
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Year |
Average crimes per month |
Maximum crimes per month, and month |
Minimum crimes per month, and month |
2014 |
6.5 |
11, April |
3, May and June |
2015 |
7.1 |
12, Aug. |
3, Dec. |
2016 |
7.8 |
13, Nov. |
3, March |
2017 |
8.1 |
12, Jan. and May |
3, June |
2018 through May |
7 |
10, March |
5, April and May |
You can see that on average, between 6.5 and 8.1 crimes against the person are committed in beat 12Y every month, over the last 4.5 years. Beat 13Y’s numbers in this category vary between 1 and 2 per month, except for 2017 where they had a maximum of 3 in June.
To clarify a point that can be confusing: if someone grabs your phone out of your hand and runs off with it, or points a weapon at you and demands it, that’s robbery. If you leave your phone on the table outside the restaurant while you go inside for something, and someone grabs your phone and runs off with it, that’s theft. It’s only robbery if the victim is directly involved.
Property crimes of all kinds are the major type of crime committed in Rockridge. In 2014, general property crime and auto-related crimes averaged about the same monthly frequency: around 20 incidents per month. Since then, auto-related property crime has been ahead of the general type, averaging between 3 and 12 incidents per month higher than general property crime.
Auto-related property crime, beat 12Y |
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Year |
Average crimes per month |
Maximum crimes per month, and month |
Minimum crimes per month, and month |
2014 |
19.8 |
35, Oct. |
10, June |
2015 |
28 |
45, April |
19, Aug. |
2016 |
26.5 |
47, Oct. |
12, Jan. |
2017 |
32.3 |
44, Jan. and June |
19, Aug. |
2018 through May |
15 |
22, March |
9, May |
For comparison: in beat 13X, in this entire period, neither kind of property crime ever averaged more than 8 incidents per month, and the highest monthly maximum in either type of property crime was 15, in Jan. 2014. It was in auto-related crime.
It’s clear that 2014 and 2017 were big years for Rockridge crime.
Quality of life crimes never averaged much more than 10 incidents per month, sometimes much less.
Quality of life crime, beat 12Y |
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Year |
Average crimes per month |
Maximum crimes per month, and month |
Minimum crimes per month, and month |
2014 |
9.9 |
20, Dec. |
5, Sept. |
2015 |
6.1 |
11, Nov. |
4, Jan., March, and Sept. |
2016 |
6.4 |
11, Nov. |
0, Jan. |
2017 |
10.3 |
14, July and Aug. |
5, June |
2018 through May |
6.2 |
9, Jan. and March |
2, May |
Considering the counts recorded thus far and that the worst months are likely yet to come, there is potential for this year to set a new record for most quality of life crimes.
In beat 13X during this period, the average number of reported quality of life crimes was never over 2 per month and the maximum number that occurred in any one month was 4. In many months, none at all were reported. Three months in 2014 (March, April, and November) each had 4 reported quality of life crimes in beat 13X.
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