Pedestrian robberies in Berkeley from January to June 2013 mapped by location. (Click to see the full report.) Source: Berkeley Police Department The Berkeley Police Department’s mid-year crime report drew compliments from city officials regarding the city’s approach to crime fighting, as well as requests for more information in the future about case closure rates, […]
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Berkeley pedestrian robberies up 35%, burglaries up too
Click the image above to view an interactive graphic created by Berkeleyside. Police saw steep increases in burglaries and pedestrian robberies in the first half of 2013, according to the mid-year crime report produced by the Berkeley Police Department, though serious crime reports overall were essentially flat when compared to last year. The mid-year crime report […]
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Berkeley crime analysis: Robberies up 25% in 2013
Most pedestrian robberies this year have involved a lone pedestrian with a cell phone in hand. Source: Berkeley Police Department Friday just after midnight, three people walking south of the UC Berkeley campus were accosted by three young men with guns who robbed them of their wallets, phones and sunglasses. The men fled, but police […]
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Berkeley crime up 11% in 2012, but longer trend is down
By Lance Knobel and Emilie Raguso Berkeley’s annual crime report shows a one-year increase of 11% in violent and property crimes in 2012. The uptick comes after four consecutive years of lowered crime, as measured by the Uniform Crime Reports’ so-called Part I crimes. But Berkeley Police Chief Michael Meehan told the City Council, during […]
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32 robberies in recent 30-day stretch in Berkeley
Click the map to see a detailed list of dates and locations. Source: CrimeMapping.com and the Berkeley Police Department The past month has seen an uptick in robberies in Berkeley, with reports as of Dec. 24 at their highest level since August, according to the most recent data available from the Berkeley Police Department. There […]
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Berkeley hills neighbors anxious after recent robberies
Neighbors in the North Berkeley hills have seen a spate of burglaries this month, two of which turned violent. The yellow marker shows one of them, and the blue marker on Senior, in the lower corner, will be reclassified as a robbery, police said. Click here to see a chronological list of the locations shown in […]
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Berkeley shows big decline in violent and property crime
A BPD crime analysis map shows unsecured homes and businesses and unlocked autos which were objects of crime in the first two months of this year. The department hopes sharing such information reduces “crimes of opportunity”. Total crime was down in Berkeley last year by 14%, a result that councilmembers hailed as “great news” when […]
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Violent and property crimes decline in Berkeley
Violent crime in Berkeley declined by 4% in the first half of 2011, while property crime declined by 16%, according to statistics released Tuesday by the Berkeley Police Department. The statistics are based on preliminary data from the FBI Uniform Crime Statistics for 2010 and the beginning of 2011. “While violent crime is of paramount […]
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Berkeley crime rates show steady decline
The crime report presented at a special workshop of the Berkeley City Council on Tuesday night showed a consistent decrease in part one crimes, the serious crimes tracked by annual statistics. Since 2006, part one crime in Berkeley has been reduced by 19%. Within that, violent crime is down 18% and property crime down 19%. […]
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Crime in Berkeley was down in 2010
Scene of a shooting on Sacramento Street in 2010. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel. What with the rash or armed robberies that occured last fall, including one that ended in the death of a 35-year-old man walking home on Adeline Street, one would have been forgiven for thinking that Berkeley was witnessing a surge in violent crime […]
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Quarterly report shows drop in Berkeley crime
Police Chief Michael Meehan The city’s quarterly report on crime, to be presented at tonight’s City Council meeting, shows a 17% drop in violent crime and a 7% drop in property crime for the first nine months of the year compared to the same period in 2009. The police department’s goal was for a 10% […]
