From Cody Telep. Follow him on Twitter @codywt, email him at cody[AT]borderstan.com.
News from DC’s Dupont, Logan and U Street neighborhoods.
Crime within the Borderstan boundaries in the first three months of 2013 was up slightly from 2012 numbers.
Overall, there were 651 total serious violent and property crimes, an increase of about 2% compared to the 638 incidents in the same time period in 2012 (see Crime in First Three Months of 2012 Up Only Slightly from 2011). Violent crime and property crime are both down about 5% when examining all of DC.
Property Crimes Driving Increase
In the table below, the counts for each offense type for the first quarter of 2012 and 2013 are included. The slight increase in offenses in 2013 is being driven entirely by property crime increases.
The large increase in burglary has been driven in part by a recent string of daytime burglaries in the Dupont area (Police Warn of Series of Daytime Burglaries in Dupont). Thefts also have shown an increase, while thefts from auto are down slightly.
In terms of violent crime, assaults with a deadly weapon are down substantially so far in 2013, and robberies are also down somewhat.
| Offense |
Jan-March 2012 Crimes
|
Jan-March 2013 Crimes
|
Percent Change
|
| Assault with a Deadly Weapon |
26 |
14 |
-46.2% |
| Arson |
1 |
1 |
0% |
| Burglary |
18 |
36 |
+100.0% |
| Homicide |
1 |
1 |
0% |
| Robbery |
64 |
57 |
-10.9% |
| Sex Abuse |
3 |
3 |
0% |
| Stolen Auto |
40 |
30 |
-25.0% |
| Theft |
190 |
236 |
+24.2% |
| Theft from Auto |
295 |
273 |
-7.5% |
| TOTAL |
638 |
651 |
+2.0% |
Top Blocks for Crimes
In terms of examining crime incidents block-by-block, for reasons that are not entirely clear, the new Metropolitan Police Department data system combines multiple blocks of Connecticut Avenue NW around Dupont Circle, making 1300 to 1699 Connecticut Avenue NW a single street block.
Thus far in 2013, this “block” has had the most serious incidents in Borderstan with a total of 29. The 1600 block of Connecticut Avenue NW has traditionally had the most incidents in that area, but it is now impossible to determine exactly how these 29 incidents are distributed along the street.
The 1300 block of U Street had 14 incidents through the first three months of 2013. Both the 700 and 800 block of Mount Vernon Place (also combined into a single block) and the 900 block of U Street had 13 serious incidents, and the 1400 block of P Street recorded 12 thus far. All of these blocks were among the highest crime locations in 2012 as well.
Crime incidents were fairly evenly distributed across the first three months of 2013. There were 227 offenses recorded in January, 185 in February, and 239 in March.
Data for these analyses were drawn from the Metropolitan Police Department Crime Mapping Application. Incidents are subject to reclassification, so these data may change slightly over the course of 2013.
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