PALMDALE – Palmdale city officials and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Palmdale Station have announced a 2.67 percent decrease in the number of Part I crimes reported for all of 2017, resulting in a crime rate of 210 crimes per 10,000 population for the year.
The drop represents a continuous downward trend that began with a crime rate of 467.71 in 1996. The city of Palmdale set a goal to push the crime rate below 300 by 2009, which proved to be successful. The rate continued to move down, falling below 300, eventually resulting in last year’s rate.
When compared to the overall numbers of 2016, crime fell in most categories. Violent crimes against persons (homicide, rape and assault) were down 2.34 percent, including a 50 percent reduction in homicides. Property crimes were down overall by 2.72 percent, with burglary down 5.26 percent and robbery down 2.25 percent. Arson showed a decrease of 14.71 percent. Thefts were down overall 3.02 percent, with the exception of auto thefts, which were up 3.08 percent.
There were a total of 3,360 Part 1 crimes in 2017, down from 3,459 in 2016. View a report of those statistics here.
“Community policing is a teamwork effort, which involves our deputies, city staff, and community members working together to achieve a safer community,” stated Palmdale Sheriff’s Station Captain Dennis Kneer. “The support from our local elected officials is truly appreciated and a reason why Palmdale is a place to call home.”
“Our City Council has long made public safety a top priority in Palmdale, and the results speak for themselves,” added Mayor Jim Ledford. “Kudos to City Manager Jim Purtee. We continue to work together with law enforcement, city staff and our residents continues to come up with ways to create a safer community.”
“It’s not an accident that by getting involved in the community, whether it’s through Neighborhood Watch, a music in the park event, Coffee With a Cop, Sundays at Courson in the summer, and the like, we are building a stronger sense of community and with that, a safer community,” Ledford continued.
“These statistics are awesome and our progress as a community in addressing crime over the past decade has been nothing short of amazing; but there is much left to do,” stated Palmdale City Manager Jim Purtee. “The numbers tell us we are safer as a community and we work to ensure every resident feels safe, in their home, in schools and parks, and in places of business. That is the goal and standard we are setting for this community.”
“2017 has been an amazing year with the residents, our community partners, the Palmdale Sheriff’s station and our deputies, and the city staff working together to make our community a safer place to call home,” stated Palmdale’s Director of Neighborhood Services Mike Miller. “To see this hard work reflected in our crime statistic numbers tells us we’re doing a great job as a team.”
The city of Palmdale was recently ranked the 35th safest city (population 50,000 and up) in California, according to a recent study by SafeHome.org.
For more information about the city of Palmdale’s neighborhood services department, call 661-267-5181.
[Information via news release from the city of Palmdale.]
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Bill Herrera Jr says
There’s a YouTube video by the sheriff who was running for election that says they are lying and palmdale part 1 crimes are up 17.8%. Don’t believe this article. They used incomplete information to come up with these numbers and even admitted doing so.
Tim Scott says
There’s a YouTube video that says the world trade center was destroyed by aliens from another dimension and that the Avengers saved the rest of the city and SHIELD is real and covering the whole thing up, assisted by the Men in Black.
Suggestion: if you are trying to discredit reports from normal information channels, use something stronger than “there’s a YouTube video…”
Alexis says
What YouTube video? Could you name the sheriff? Please state your sources, Bill Herrera Jr..
Alexis says
Bill, there’s a YouTube video called “can’t lie on the internet.” It’s hilarious, Bill.
Rex4Mayor4Ever says
Rex beats Ledford again! LOL!
Rex has more homicides, robberies, assaults, rapes, thefts, and arson than Ledford does in Palmdale! LOL!
Way to go Rex! LOL!
Tom says
Is Jim Ledford one of those crimes reported?
Mr fed up says
I almost choked on my Kool-aid, reading the article, palmdale officials sure are drinking the Kool-aid
Propa says
Bad news for The AV Times without crime they have no stories.
Tom says
How many crimes were there that were not reported? And those are just crimes where someone was charged. Lower that number into the high triple digits then you can brag. 89 is not a convincing number when there are 365 days and over 3400 crimes.
Tim Scott says
“How many crimes were there that were not reported?” – what is the point of this question? The fear mongers can just spew out a made up number that is so astronomically high that it would justify a police state and mass executions of the “perpetrators of unreported crime.” There is no way to intelligently discuss ‘unreported crime,’ by the nature of ‘unreported.’
George says
But you can intelligently discuss crimes that are Part 1 crimes and are intentionally mis-reported as Part 2 crimes to skew the outcomes. As an example, burglaries by definition are being reported as trespass if there was no property loss. For instance, someone breaks out a window to enter the structure and steal but is scared off by a neighbor is a burglary. Yet it is reported to the record keepers as a vandalism or trespass. The deputy or officer writes a burglary report, but when it is entered for statistical purposes, it goes as the lesser Part 2 crime. Another example is the shoplift burglary. Someone enters the store with the intent to steal, it is a burglary. It is reported as a shoplift many times to stay away from the Part 1 definition.
Will anyone admit to it, probably not. Can you figure it out, yes, but it would take a lot of time going through reports and comparing the data entry.