BPD rolls up the prior year in local crime each January and we dutifully report it to you. All in all, it appears that 2022 was pretty much the same as the last couple of years with the exception of catalytic converter thefts which are on a steep trajectory upwards. We touched on the topic in March here. In the comments on that post, you can read about CATGUARD. I'll check on whether B'game is thinking about it like San Mateo and update this.
My guess is porch pirate thefts are seriously underreported to BPD. Just looking at the Ring camera footage from nearby neighborhoods, two per month seems low. Remember that all of these numbers are monthly - so we had 36 residential burglaries reported in 2022, 288 stolen vehicles, and so on down the list.
Monthly Average 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Residential Burglaries 5 2 3 3 2 2 3
Vehicle Burglaries 23 25 21 39 20 25 24
Thefts from Unlocked Vehicles - 14 8 5
Commercial Burglaries 9 4 5 4 6 5 5
Construction site theft - 1 1 1
Package thefts - 4 2 2
Other Thefts 60 51 56 61 - - -
Catalytic Converter Theft 6 9 11
Robberies 1 1 1 2 2 2 1
Stolen Vehicles 9 6 4 6 9 7 8
Vandalism 13 13 11 12 13 13 13
Not reported in these statistics is the traffic enforcement trends. Purely anecdotally, as noted here, we need more traffic enforcement. Watching people speed up 40 yards from a yellow light and blast through the red is a daily occurrence. I would love to see BPD be funded to add at least two more officers dedicated to this.
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