Overall Borderstan Crime Stats Flat for September

Map Key for Types of Crimes

Open this map (PDF) for the MPD’s symbol key to the crimes shown on above maps.

Here are the three-month Borderstan crime stats; you can compare July, August and September 2008. Crime stats are broken out below. Overall, the number of crimes was flat, but there was a slight uptick in violent crimes and slight downtick in property crimes.

A 3-month comparison of Borderstan crime for July-September 2007 versus July-September 2008 will be posted in a separate entry (later today). Here are MPD’s official “crime definitions” of what exactly constitutes a certain type of crime.

2008 Violent Crime

• Homicide: July: 0; August: 0; and September: 0.
• Sex Abuse: July: 0; August: 0; and September: 0.
• Robbery Excluding Gun: July: 1; August: 2; and September: 4.
• Robbery With Gun: July: 1; August: 0; and September: 0.
• Assault With a Dangerous Weapon (no gun): July: 0; August: 0; and September: 1.
• Assault With a Dangerous Weapon (with gun): July: 0; August: 0; and September: 0.

2008 Property Crimes

• Burglary: July: 4; August: 2; and Sepember: 3.
• Theft: July: 7; August: 8; and September: 4.
• Theft from Auto: July: 18; August: 7; and September: 8.
• Stolen Auto: July: 6 in July; August: 3; and September: 2.
• Arson: July: 0; August: 0; and September: 0.

2008 Crime Summary for 3-Month Period

• Total Violent Crime
  • July: 2
  • August: 2
  • September: 5
• Total Property Crime
  • July: 35
  • August: 20
  • September: 17
• Total Crimes
  • July: 38
  • August: 22
  • September: 22.

Related Links

• MPD’s Crime Definitions
• Key to Crime Map (PDF)
• D.C. crime stats from D.C. MPD
• Search for crime stats for a specific area in D.C.
• PSA 307 (East Borderstan)
• PSA 208 (West Borderstan)