Violent Part One Crime Down 18 Percent in B-2, Other Part One Crimes Down 20 Percent

Last week the Boston Police released its half-year crime stats that compares January 1, 2021 through July 25, 2021 with the same time period last year and found that both Violent Part One Crime as well as Non-violent Part One Crime is down in District B-2.

Part One Crimes are the more serious crimes that the Boston Police and other law enforcement agencies track and in B-2, which includes Mission Hill, the overall Violent Part One Crime is down 18 percent so far this year when compared to the same six months in 2020.

According to the statistics, there were 8 Homicides reported in B-2 through July 25, 2021. This was a decrease of 37.5 percent with 5 Homicides in the district reported between January 1 and July 25 of last year.

Rape and Attempted Rape is up 15 percent in the area with 20 being reported during the first half of last year and 23 reported so far in 2021.

Robbery or Attempted Robbery is down 43 percent with 82 incidents reported in the first half of 2020 and 47 reported so far this year.

Domestic Aggravated Assault is up 2 percent with 111 incidents reported in the first half of 2020 and 113 reported so far this year.

Non-domestic Aggravated Assault is down 21 percent with 207 incidents reported during the first half of 2020 and 163 incidents reported so far this year.

Overall there were a total of 351 Violent Part One Crimes in D-4 between January 1, 2021 and July 25, 2021. This was down from the 428 Violent Part One Crimes reported during the same period last year.

As for Non-Violent Part One Crimes the numbers are down 20 percent in the district. These crimes include Commercial Burglary, Residential Burglary, Larceny From Motor Vehicle, Other Larceny and Auto Theft.

According to the report Commercial Burglary is down 18 percent with 28 incidents reported during the first half of 2020 and only 23 reported so far this year.

Residential Burglary is down 46 percent and went from 104 reported incidents during the first half of 2020 to 56 incidents reported so far in 2021.

Larceny From Motor Vehicles, which was a huge problem last year, has dropped 24 percent with 265 incidents reported during the first half of 2020 and 201 incidents reported so far this year.

Auto Theft is down 8 percent with 123 incidents being reported during the first half of 2020 and 113 incidents reported so far this year.

Other Larcenies are down 13 percent during the first half of the year. There were 300 incidents reported during the first half of 2020 and that number decreased to 260 reported incidents so far this year.            

Overall there were 1,004 Non-Violent Part One Crimes, down 13 percent from the 1,248 reported during the first six months of 2020

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