Crime View For August 2009
Crime View meeting September 16, 2009 for the month of August, 2009. All data and maps, in this report, is provided by the Placentia Police Department. The totals for the month of August are inside the () after each crime heading.
Calls for service
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Total: 1362
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Day: 671
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Night: 691
Traffic Bureau Statistics
Traffic Collisions (32)
The figure of 32 is ten more than last month. This is not seen as a problem because this is typical for this time of the year. We are still down -11% from last year.
Traffic Fatalities (0)
Personal Injury Collisions (13)
This month the figure jumped from 5 for July to 13 for August. For the year, the totals show a huge decrease, -27%!
Property Damage Collisions (19)
From last month we see two more reported incidents. We are still down -3% from last year.
Motorist Passenger Injuries (13)
This month the total jumped up from 4 in July to 13 for August. We are still -44% for the year when compared to last year.
Pedestrian Injuries (2)
An office made the comment, during the Crime View briefing, that pedestrians were equally at fault. Pedestrians need to look both ways before stepping off the curb into the cross walk.
Bicyclist Injuries (1)
This number is the same as last month.
Hit and Run Collisions (5)
We are down by one from last month. We are down by -4% when comparing last year's figures.
Hazardous Cites Issued (372)
This figure is down by 12 from last month.
Parking Cites Issued (1141)
The street sweepers were working more in August than July so the cites went up by 110. The officer giving the presentation for the traffic segment of Crime View thinks compliance rate is up. Please note that the city council will contract with an outside company and might go to seeping streets every other week. This should drastically reduce these cites.
Driving Under Influence (DUI) Collisions (1)*
The one incident took place near the corner of Placentia Ave and Bastanchury Road, just a bit east on Bastanchury.
HBD Collisions (0)*
Driving Under Influence (DUI) Arrests (11)
This number is exactly the same as last month. For the year and comparing to last year, we are -9%. One officer in the Crime View meeting thinks he sees a lot more taxi cabs being used to take people home from restaurants that serve alcohol and at bars. One restaurant in the area uses a limo to take customers home.
30 Day Impounds Of Vehicles (84)
One big success story for Placentia Police is the impound yard. A very large number of vehicles are being driven illegally. Officers will impound these vehicles during traffic stops. This impounding of illegally driven vehicles, has significantly dropped the vehicular incident reports. When you see this figure go up, expect to see traffic related crimes to diminish.
Crime Trends
Homicide (0)
Only 1 for the year.
Rape (0)
Only 1 for the year.
Robbery (2)
In July, we experienced 5 robberies. This month, August, we are down to 2. The robberies for the month occurred on Thursday and Friday between the hours of midnight and 4 am. One robbery was a bank take over by an alleged LA gang. The second robbery was taking a man's wallet near city hall.
Aggravated Assault (3)
Last mont the total was 0 and we are thus up by 3 for this month. We are down -58% from last year.
Non-Aggravated Assault (12)
We are exactly the same as last month. When compared to last year, we see a 20% increase.
The majority of assaults took place on Sunday between 4 am and midnight. Eight of the assaults were domestic violence related.
In the map above, you can see the importance of mapping incidents. Note the cluster of assault crimes taking place north of Crowther Ave., south of Chapman Ave and between the 57 Freeway and N. Kraemer Blvd.
Property Crimes
Residential Burglary (17)
Last month 11 were reported and August saw an increase by 6 to a total of 17. The total for the year when compared to last year is a 2% increase. Eight garage break ins took place over two weeks on Backs Lane (see cluster in map below) and then stopped. The garages were pried open.
Commercial Burglary (9)
Commercial burglaries for the month occurred most frequently Monday and Saturday between 8 am and noon.
Vehicle Burglary (16)
Majority of vehicle burglaries took place on Tuesday and Saturday between 8 pm and midnight.
Grand Theft (13)
July 16 were reported and in August the number dropped to 13. For the year we re up by 6%. Grand thefts for the month of August occurred most frequently on Mondays and Saturdays between 4 pm and 8 pm.
Petty Theft (20)
Last month the total was 13. This month the figure jumped to 20, 7 more than last month. The total for this year, when compared to last year, results in a 6% increase. Petty thefts occurred most frequently on Monday from midnight to 4 am and from 4 pm to 8 pm.
Vehicle Theft (5)
July's report shows 5 and August the same figure. For the year we are down by 20% from last year. Vehicle thefts occurred though out the week with the most thefts occurring between 8 am and noon.
Graffiti (15)
This is a new report item being included in Crime View briefing.
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Terms:
DUI = Driving Under Influence occurs at 0.08% blood alcohol concentration (BAC).
HBD = Has Been Drinking.
Note: HBD is the lesser degree of intoxication anywhere under the BAC trigger for DUI.