Crime Statistics

Concord Police Department 

City of Concord 2022 Crime Statistics

The following table provides a summary of crimes in the City of Concord for the calendar year. More detailed offense reporting is also available on this page.

Index Crimes

JAN

FEB

MAR

APR

MAY

JUN

JUL

AUG

SEP

OCT

NOV

DEC

2022 Total

Homicide

2

0

0

1

1

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

5

Rape

1

0

3

4

2

0

1

1

4

3

2

3

24

Aggravated Assault

46

39

40

60

50

69

45

55

47

48

43

55

597

Burglary

77

43

60

40

28

27

39

41

37

27

34

39

492

Larceny Theft

240

228

238

245

222

198

193

195

223

189

161

185

2517

Vehicle Theft

80

64

77

84

74

71

53

49

40

39

51

45

727

Arson

7

4

2

7

14

9

4

4

5

6

3

6

71

Index Crimes Totals

453

378

420

441

391

374

335

345

356

313

294

333

4433

 

Changes in Crime Reporting

Since its earliest days, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has collected national crime data.

Before 2021, California utilized the Summary Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) method, often referred to as “Part I & Part II Crimes,” to report crime statistics to the FBI. On January 1, 2021 the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) replaced UCR as the nationwide data collection method. The implementation of NIBRS will provide consistency in crime reporting across the United States. In addition, it will support law enforcement’s ability to report reliable information to optimize law enforcement management, training, planning, and research to strategically and effectively reduce crime.

Differences between UCR and NIBRS

It is essential to highlight the differences between UCR and NIBRS, as the Concord Police Department’s crime statistics will change due to this new reporting method.

UCR

  • Consists of monthly aggregate crime count for 8 Index crimes
  • Records one offense per incident as determined by the hierarchy rule
  • The hierarchy rule suppresses counts of lesser offenses in multiple-offense incidents
  • It does not distinguish between attempted and completed crimes
  • Collects weapon information for murder, robbery, and aggravated assault
  • Provides counts on arrests for the 8 Index crimes and 21 other offenses

 

NIBRS

  • NIBRS collects data about victims, known offenders, and relationships for offenses reported in 23 categories with 52 offenses. It also presents arrest data for those crimes, as well as 10 additional categories for which only arrest data is collected
  • Records each offense occurring in an incident
  • Distinguishes between attempted and completed crimes
  • Restructures the definition of assault
  • Collects weapon information for all violent offenses

 

NIBRS can produce more detailed, accurate, and meaningful data because it collects data on when and where crime takes place, what form it takes, and the characteristics of its victims and perpetrators.

 

UCR Reporting vs. NIBRS 

UCR

NIBRS

Collects data on homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, larceny theft, and arson

X

X

Employs a “Hierarchy Rule” that only recognizes the most extreme crime within a particular incident

X

 

Collects data on as many as 10 criminal offenses within a particular incident

 

X

Collects incident and arrest data on 52 Group A offenses and arrest data on 10 Group B offenses

 

X

Documents animal cruelty, extortion, and identity theft offenses

 

X

Has Crime Against Persons and Crime Against Property categories

X

X

Includes a Crime Against Society Category

 

X

Gathers incident-related data, including the relationships between victims and offenders, types and quantities of drugs involved, and types of property that were damaged or stolen   

 

X

 

NIBRS Crime Categories and Offenses

GROUP A

GROUP B

Arson

Assault Offenses

  • Aggravated Assault
  • Simple Assault
  • Intimidation

Bribery

Burglary / Breaking & Entering

Counterfeiting/Forgery

Destruction/Damage/

Vandalism

Drug/Narcotic Violations

Drug Equipment Violations

Embezzlement

Extortion/Blackmail

Fraud Offenses

  • False Pretenses/Swindle
  • Credit/Debit Card Fraud
  • Impersonation
  • Welfare Fraud
  • Wire Fraud
  • Identity Theft
  • Hacking/Computer Invasion

Gambling Offenses

  • Betting/Wagering
  • Operating/Promoting/

Assisting Gambling

  • Gambling Equipment Violations
  • Sports Tampering

Homicide Offenses

  • Murder and Nonnegligent

Manslaughter

  • Negligent Manslaughter
  • Justifiable Homicide (not a crime)

Human Trafficking Offenses

  • Commercial Sex Acts
  • Involuntary Servitude

Kidnapping/Abduction

Larceny/Theft Offenses

  • Pocket-Picking/Purse Snatching
  • Shoplifting
  • Theft from Building
  • Theft from Coin-Operated Machine
  • Theft from Motor Vehicle
  • Theft of Motor Vehicle Parts
  • All Other Larceny

Motor Vehicle Theft

Pornography/Obscene Material

Prostitution Offenses

  • Prostitution
  • Assisting or Promoting

Prostitution

  • Purchasing Prostitution

Robbery

Sex Offenses

  • Rape/Sodomy
  • Sexual Assault with an Object
  • Fondling

Stolen Property Offenses

Weapon Law Violations

Animal Cruelty

Bad Checks

Curfew/Loitering/Vagrancy

Disorderly Conduct

Driving Under the Influence

Drunkenness

Family Offenses (nonviolent)

Liquor Law Violations

Peeping Tom

Trespass of Real Property

All Other Offenses





 

Concord Police Department’s Transition to NIBRS

The Concord Police Department (CPD) transition to a new Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) and Records Management System (RMS) on December 15, 2020, to facilitate the transition to NIBRS.

CPD began submitting NIBRS data to the California Department of Justice in February 2021. Once a NIBRS report is submitted to the DOJ, the data goes through an extensive compliance and validation process to check for errors such as incomplete or unfilled mandatory fields, ensuring proper coding of offenses, and reviewing high-level data accuracy. Law enforcement agencies are required to submit three (3) separate monthly crime report submissions, with a 4% or less margin of error, in order to achieve NIBRS certification.

Follow the link to learn more about NIBRS and what CPD reports to the California Department of Justice and FBI: National Incident-Based Reporting System and NIBRS User Manual 2021.1

Result of the Change from UCR to NIBRS

These changes will bring improved detail and a more transparent approach to crime reporting for the public. It will also make comparing crime statistics between communities more meaningful by ensuring consistency throughout the U.S. The availability of NIBRS data is also an opportunity for law enforcement to improve the way data is used to measure agency workload, outcomes and performance.

The perception may be that the City of Concord’s lower-level crime statistics have increased. This change in reporting is not expected to reflect an actual increase in crime, but rather a change in the way crimes are reported.

Examples of how crime is reported under UCR and NIBRS

Crime

How the offenses would be reported under UCR

How the offenses will be reported in NIBRS

A bank robbery followed by a vehicle pursuit and a hit and run collision

Robbery

Robbery

Vehicle pursuit

Hit and run collision

A domestic violence incident in which a phone is vandalized and a purse is stolen

Domestic Violence

Domestic violence

Vandalism

Theft

A kidnapping followed by a vehicle theft

Kidnapping

Kidnapping

Vehicle theft

 

NIBRS crime data are electronically reported after the last day of each month. The NIBRS data is collected from the offenses and associated details contained in a police report; therefore, the NIBRS data is only submitted once the police report is completed and has gone through the audit and approval process. The progression from responding to an incident to submitting NIBRS data involves numerous steps and, depending on the extent of the investigation, can take a significant amount of time. 

Reporting to NIBRS Workflow

 *** To provide crime statistic data to the public as expeditiously as possible, the crime statistics presented on this page are based on UNAUDITED RMS data gathered from police reports throughout all steps of the report writing process and are therefore subject to change until Records Audit, and NIBRS validation is complete. ***

 Crime statistics for police reports submitted to NIBRS are tallied based on the date of incident occurrence. For example, if a crime is reported to CPD in January, but the comprehensive investigation and report approval process did not conclude until March, the data would not be submitted to the CA DOJ and NIBRS until the end of the March submission period. Once the March NIBRS submission is accepted, the crime statistic data from January will be adjusted to include the newly submitted offenses. Thus, NIBRS crime data is fluid and subject to change as additional NIBRS information is provided to the DOJ. The annual crime data is not static until all the police reports for the year have been audited, submitted, and validated by Records and NIBRS.

2022 NIBRS Crime Statistics

The following table provides the NIBRS Group A crime in the City of Concord for the calendar year.

 

 

Crime Categories

JAN

FEB

MAR

APR

MAY

JUN

JUL

AUG

SEP

OCT

NOV

DEC

CY Total

Group A Offenses 

778

687

793

825

791

754

666

746

723

669

601

661

8694

Animal Cruelty

1

-

1

-

-

2

1

-

-

1

1

-

7

  Animal Cruelty

1

-

1

-

-

2

1

-

-

1

1

-

7

Arson

7

4

2

7

14

9

4

4

5

6

3

6

71

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Arson

7

4

2

7

14

9

4

4

5

6

3

6

71

Assault Offenses

107

106

123

145

131

145

113

125

132

149

120

123

1519

  Aggravated Assault

46

39

40

60

50

69

45

55

47

49

41

51

592

  Intimidation

15

9

16

15

16

13

7

16

12

30

18

18

185

  Simple Assault

46

58

67

70

65

63

61

54

73

70

61

54

742

Burglary

77

43

60

40

28

27

39

41

37

27

34

39

492

  Burglary/Breaking & Entering

77

43

60

40

28

27

39

41

37

27

34

39

492

Counterfeiting/Forgery

8

4

11

8

6

9

4

2

5

2

6

4

69

  Counterfeiting/Forgery

8

4

11

8

6

9

4

2

5

2

6

4

69

Drug/Narcotic Offenses

64

83

86

103

123

108

102

149

114

97

76

106

1211

  Drug Equipment Violations

18

25

33

30

39

34

25

63

32

27

26

30

382

  Drug/Narcotic Violations

46

58

53

73

84

74

77

86

82

70

50

76

829

Embezzlement

2

3

1

1

-

1

1

1

1

2

2

1

16

  Embezzlement

2

3

1

1

-

1

1

1

1

2

2

1

16

Extortion/Blackmail

-

-

-

1

2

-

1

-

-

2

1

1

8

  Extortion/Blackmail

-

-

-

1

2

-

1

-

-

2

1

1

8

Fraud Offenses

45

18

29

32

32

31

29

21

28

24

23

22

334

  Credit Card/Automated Teller Machine Fraud

15

4

11

7

10

7

6

5

7

5

8

3

88

  False Pretenses/Swindle/Confidence Game

26

12

15

19

18

17

19

12

18

12

10

13

191

  Identity Theft

2

-

2

3

1

2

1

1

-

3

1

1

17

  Impersonation

2

2

1

3

3

5

3

3

3

4

4

5

38

Homicide Offenses

2

1

-

1

1

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

6

  Murder & Nonnegligent Manslaughter

2

-

-

1

1

-

-

-

-

1

-

-

5

  Negligent Manslaughter

-

1

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

1

Kidnapping/Abduction

2

1

4

3

6

3

3

2

3

4

2

5

38

  Kidnapping/Abduction

2

1

4

3

6

3

3

2

3

4

2

5

38

Larceny/Theft Offenses

240

228

238

245

222

198

193

195

222

189

161

185

2516

  All Other Larceny

48

43

55

59

68

58

42

40

38

49

38

41

579

  Pocket-picking

1

-

2

1

-

-

1

-

1

1

-

1

8

  Purse-snatching

-

1

1

2

-

1

1

-

1

-

1

-

8

  Shoplifting

22

13

16

16

20

24

11

25

30

18

13

18

226

  Theft From Building

13

14

14

14

14

11

21

17

14

7

12

11

162

  Theft From Motor Vehicle

122

109

122

136

106

89

97

84

110

84

82

95

1236

  Theft of Motor Vehicle Parts or Accessories

34

48

28

17

14

15

20

29

28

30

15

19

297

Motor Vehicle Theft

80

64

77

84

74

71

53

49

40

39

51

45

727

  Motor Vehicle Theft

80

64

77

84

74

71

53

49

40

39

51

45

727

Pornography/Obscene Material

-

-

-

-

1

-

-

6

1

-

-

-

8

  Pornography/Obscene Material

-

-

-

-

1

-

-

6

1

-

-

-

8

Robbery

12

17

18

9

10

23

16

15

18

17

16

10

181

  Robbery

12

17

18

9

10

23

16

15

18

17

16

10

181

Sex Offenses

5

5

13

9

10

10

7

5

15

8

9

6

102

  Fondling

4

3

9

4

6

9

5

3

7

4

6

2

62

  Rape

1

-

3

4

2

-

1

1

4

3

2

3

24

  Sexual Assault With An Object

-

1

1

-

1

1

1

-

4

-

-

1

10

  Sodomy

-

-

-

-

1

-

-

1

-

-

1

-

3

  Statutory Rape

-

1

-

1

-

-

-

-

-

1

-

-

3

Stolen Property Offenses

11

19

17

11

12

15

6

10

6

8

7

7

129

  Stolen Property Offenses

11

19

17

11

12

15

6

10

6

8

7

7

129

Vandalism

95

76

95

98

92

86

66

85

77

60

64

76

970

  Destruction/Damage/Vandalism of Property

95

76

95

98

92

86

66

85

77

60

64

76

970

Weapon Law Violations

20

15

18

28

27

16

28

36

19

34

25

25

291

  Weapon Law Violations

20

15

18

28

27

16

28

36

19

34

25

25

291