For a few reasons, I decided to go through the City of Antioch’s Type I crime reports (available here: http://www.ci.antioch.ca.us/citygov/police/crime-maps/crime-maps.htm).

The City only publishes this as a PDF image, comparing the year selected, and the previous year. It also only goes back to 2005.

To help view this as a possible trend, and not just a snapshot in time, I typed up all of them in Google Docs – City of Antioch Crime Stats

It does some some improvement after a few years of growth, it is still however an order of magnitude worse than other cities in California.

According to Homesurfer.com’s Crime report, even the Sister city to Antioch, Pittsburg had 323 per 100,000 “incidents” in one year (2008). While Antioch had 869 per 100,000.

Compare that to places like Moraga which had 35 incidents per 100,000 or heck, even Oakley’s 248, which borders Antioch on the eastern side.

Here is a decent table output:

.

 TYPE Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec TOTAL %CHANGE

.

 HOMI

.

 2011 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 4 -69.23%

.

 2010 2 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 5 13 160.00%

.

 2009 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 5 -37.50%

.

 2008 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 0 0 3 8 -20.00%

.

 2007 2 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 10 0.00%

.

 2006 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 3 2 1 1 0 10 0.00%

.

 2005 1 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 10

.

 RAPE

.

 2011 0 0 1 1 3 3 4 1 13 -59.38%

.

 2010 0 1 1 2 3 2 3 7 4 4 3 2 32 -20.00%

.

 2009 5 4 1 2 5 2 5 6 6 1 0 3 40 37.93%

.

 2008 2 2 1 5 3 3 1 3 3 0 1 5 29 7.41%

.

 2007 2 3 5 3 0 6 0 2 2 0 3 1 27 -22.86%

.

 2006 5 3 3 4 2 6 1 2 2 2 1 4 35 25.00%

.

 2005 1 5 2 1 4 2 1 5 0 2 2 3 28

.

 ROBB

.

 2011 24 21 19 23 22 21 20 26 176 -43.77%

.

 2010 23 26 24 37 33 28 32 29 24 21 16 20 313 -0.63%

.

 2009 21 33 23 27 42 24 32 21 19 25 32 16 315 -20.85%

.

 2008 25 39 48 42 37 38 27 22 26 40 23 31 398 -3.16%

.

 2007 34 31 20 32 53 35 31 40 23 26 47 39 411 44.21%

.

 2006 15 30 22 33 24 16 25 26 26 11 8 49 285 22.84%

.

 2005 19 18 13 28 14 26 25 21 12 35 10 11 232

.

 AGR ASSAULT

.

 2011 26 29 47 34 44 34 35 43 292 -42.29%

.

 2010 47 27 55 41 43 43 38 47 52 33 34 46 506 -5.77%

.

 2009 37 39 36 64 49 52 44 46 49 33 50 38 537 22.05%

.

 2008 36 35 38 27 26 28 42 32 46 50 37 43 440 6.80%

.

 2007 39 27 30 21 30 37 35 51 45 26 30 41 412 25.99%

.

 2006 18 27 27 32 28 19 25 36 23 28 12 52 327 15.55%

.

 2005 14 13 22 14 34 35 25 20 14 38 24 30 283

.

 BURG

.

 2011 86 87 127 96 113 93 93 103 798 -26.59%

.

 2010 98 114 113 89 60 76 75 90 80 77 111 104 1087 31.92%

.

 2009 42 53 62 93 89 89 56 63 54 64 86 73 824 -10.73%

.

 2008 76 81 69 58 93 79 66 69 66 88 100 78 923 -10.13%

.

 2007 79 70 93 104 91 94 73 109 81 78 75 80 1027 22.26%

.

 2006 69 49 38 67 65 45 62 85 78 40 94 148 840 14.60%

.

 2005 97 59 49 62 61 71 51 63 45 62 49 64 733

.

 THEFT

.

 2011 69 82 98 75 72 108 119 120 743 -29.17%

.

 2010 79 98 113 94 95 99 90 91 86 53 70 81 1049 -3.05%

.

 2009 117 137 89 135 74 90 97 85 55 73 48 82 1082 -12.81%

.

 2008 73 95 93 135 89 91 114 71 86 132 106 156 1241 8.29%

.

 2007 128 90 126 97 121 91 64 105 64 80 97 83 1146 1.96%

.

 2006 82 119 109 79 70 58 72 122 81 82 53 197 1124 -11.43%

.

 2005 134 96 110 90 130 137 83 87 91 117 82 112 1269

.

 MVTHEFT

.

 2011 76 63 71 71 91 68 67 53 560 -41.67%

.

 2010 72 46 117 70 103 50 45 69 74 83 94 137 960 28.51%

.

 2009 65 39 88 89 72 75 63 59 64 35 55 43 747 8.89%

.

 2008 74 64 34 71 81 45 37 48 45 51 75 61 686 -27.71%

.

 2007 90 108 68 76 61 71 74 75 65 84 77 100 949 7.84%

.

 2006 53 64 74 71 44 69 75 92 74 95 80 89 880 -4.14%

.

 2005 110 74 66 74 92 94 57 67 46 91 83 64 918

.

 ARSON

.

 2011 1 3 3 1 3 3 11 5 30 -18.92%

.

 2010 2 3 4 3 1 3 4 3 10 3 0 1 37 -7.50%

.

 2009 0 3 1 3 8 7 5 4 1 2 2 4 40 5.26%

.

 2008 2 2 2 3 3 2 4 6 3 7 3 1 38 -25.49%

.

 2007 2 1 5 2 8 5 1 8 7 3 7 2 51 -8.93%

.

 2006 5 1 3 4 5 5 13 3 5 6 4 2 56 27.27%

.

 2005 2 2 10 5 6 3 1 7 0 5 2 1 44

.

 ADULT ARRESTS 0

.

 2011 360 308 333 335 386 220 212 346 2500 -38.23%

.

 2010 522 282 306 364 357 320 219 245 361 380 268 423 4047 -25.03%

.

 2009 424 539 535 462 398 390 507 407 458 412 248 618 5398 -6.06%

.

 2008 535 378 450 418 429 453 558 387 557 491 535 555 5746 14.69%

.

 2007 323 457 731 417 308 289 504 404 363 364 338 512 5010 12.84%

.

 2006 272 312 294 408 430 381 564 459 608 319 121 272 4440 -5.97%

.

 2005 462 277 698 472 433 485 495 561 191 209 181 258 4722

.

 JUV ARRESTS

.

 2011 69 80 92 95 87 79 99 70 671 -40.93%

.

 2010 103 121 96 127 116 83 47 69 85 113 83 93 1136 -10.48%

.

 2009 94 137 138 117 111 129 79 75 76 105 90 118 1269 -22.43%

.

 2008 128 136 158 193 167 123 154 72 142 113 119 131 1636 6.65%

.

 2007 90 132 204 125 130 172 128 124 83 121 105 120 1534 15.08%

.

 2006 71 75 80 114 150 93 148 147 117 127 48 163 1333 22.07%

.

 2005 91 64 181 114 116 118 110 80 52 63 44 59 1092

I applaud the police department for making a dent over the past two years, and even more so for publishing this data (Concord and Pittsburg did not have this information easily accessible). Even with their effort, I don’t think I’ll be hanging around to see if it pays off.

I hope that Antioch becomes a nice bedding community again. The type of place where people like my grandfather, only had to drawn their weapon once during a domestic dispute, and never had to fire it.