The year-to-date crime rate for San Bernardino dropped almost 10.4% in March from the same period in 2019, with property crimes down nearly 15%, the city said. The pattern follows reports of downward crime trends elsewhere after the coronavirus pandemic was identified.
San Bernardino police Sgt. John Echevarria said Monday, April 27, the drop was attributable to coronavirus health orders that have kept people at home and temporarily closed businesses that might be crime targets.
The decrease in property crimes for San Bernardino was leavened by a nearly 5.4% increase in violent crimes, compared with 2019. Robbery was up nearly 4.3%, and aggravated assault nearly 8.5%. Homicides were unchanged.
Rape reports fell about 16.7 percent. Echevarria said Monday there was no reason to believe that crime was being under-reported during the COVID-19 lockdown. He took the opportunity to note that if other efforts to reach police fail, a victim can go to the department headquarters at 710 N D St. in San Bernardino.
The lobby is closed because of the pandemic, but a call box outside links to the department’s dispatch center, and an officer will respond, Echevarria, a department spokesman, said.
He also attributed the decrease in crime to faster response by officers, because the overall call volume is down.
“We have also better promoted our online reporting” as part of the department’s officer safety directive during the pandemic. That has resulted in better and more efficient crime-in-progress contacts, Echevarria said.
In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued stay-at-home orders on March 19 as the state faced a wave of COVID-19 cases that threatened to overwhelm its medical care facilities.
Restaurants, movie theaters and concerts, retail outlets deemed non-essential, and offices have largely been closed.
The largest single category drop for non-violent crime in San Bernardino was burglaries, down just over 31% compared to the same time in 2019. Forced-entry burglary alone was down 35%.
“People are required to be home, so there’s less opportunities for burglars,” Echevarria said. “But we also see business owners working at their office.” While the business is closed to the public, there’s someone inside to report suspicious activity, he said.
There were 91 reported burglaries in March, compared with 129 reported in February, according to the Uniform Crime Reporting statistics San Bernardino makes available monthly. The same numbers are reported to the California Department of Justice.
Theft was down nearly 4.7 percent.
Vehicle theft was down just over 20 percent compared to numbers up to March 2019 in San Bernardino, but there were seven more vehicle thefts in March than February, a pattern also reported by the Los Angeles Police Department in their February statistics, which also saw an overall drop in crime attributed to the pandemic.
Echevarria said Monday he was uncertain about the reasons for the overall drop for the year-to-date in San Bernardino vehicle thefts.
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