Crime is down compared to last year, according to new SDPD tool

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) -- Crime across the City of San Diego is trending downward, according to a new crime mapping tool launched by the San Diego Police Department (SDPD) Monday.

The SDPD neighborhood crime summary dashboard sorts crime data by category and location since 2022. The data shows three crime trends have gone down compared to the three-year average.

"Crimes against persons," which includes murder, rape and assault, have gone down one percent compared to the same point in time in the last 3 years. There have been 737 crimes against persons reported so far this month compared to 1,113 reports in the same crime trend last March.

The highest reported categories in "crimes against persons" so far this year has been simple assaults, followed by aggravated assault and intimidation.

Crimes against property also dropped -- seeing an 18% decrease in reported crimes that include burglary, robbery and bribery. There were 1,978 crimes against property reported this month compared to over 3,200 in the same month last year.

The highest reported category in this crime trend for the year to date has been "all other larceny," followed by destruction/damage/vandalism of property and motor vehicle theft.

Meanwhile, crimes against society, which includes gambling, prostitution and drug violations, dropped three percent with 784 crimes this month compared to 1,028 last March.

Drug/narcotic violations made up the bulk of reported crimes under "crimes against society," followed by disorderly conduct and drug equipment violations.

The goal of SDPD's new tool is to enable residents to see what types of crimes are happening in their own neighborhoods. The data, which is updated daily, does not contain any personally identifying information about suspects, victims or exact addresses of crimes, according to SDPD.

A short demo on how to use the dashboard can be found on SDPD's YouTube channel here.