Fort Lauderdale Police: Crime is up HUGE in the Point

The Crime Analysis Unit of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department actively maintains crime reports.  The most recent HOA report should always be here.  This is definitely something we should keep our eye on should update here as often as possible.

For the year to date through April,  crime is way, way up in our neighborhood.  Excluding neighborhoods that have gone from zero crimes in 2008 to a handful in 2009, we have the sixth fastest growing rate out of all other HOA areas.  Only Melrose Park (102%), Dillard Park (133%), Riverside Park (135%) andTarpon River (169%) beat us in this less than illustrious category.

Here is the year-to-date breakdown availble from the report:

OFFENSE	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2002-2009 +/-%	2008-2009 +/-%
Robbery	0	1	2	0	2	1	1	3	157%	200%
Burglary Residence	7	8	4	8	10	2	6	18	1900%	33%
Vehicle Burglary	1	8	9	7	7	8	15	20	200%	200%
Business Burglary	1	2	0	0	3	6	1	3	25%	150%
Vehicle Theft	4	4	4	5	2	1	2	5	277%	96%
Imperial Point Total	13	23	19	20	24	18	25	49	277%	96%

Here is what that data looks like plotted year by year:




While it's completely justified to be a  alarmed by these figures, especially considering the astronomical rise in residential burglaries, other communities are much harder hit when comparing absolute numbers.  For example, take Lauderdale Manors; they have three times the number of home break-ins this year which only bumbs their rate of increase 5%.

I've send a missive to the gentleman in charge of collecting this figures in order to get them in a more easily consumable format.  That way we can do community by community comparisons to get a better idea of how serious this is.