2005/06/15 Council Agenda Packet

Consultants' Final Report - Page 17 III. Crime in Garden Grove, 1981-1990 During the decade of our study, 1981-1990, the Garden Grove Police Department recorded 108,196 UCR Part I crimes (112 homicides, 548 rapes, 3,835 robberies, 16,677 assaults, 24,498 burglaries, 51,393 thefts, and 11,133 auto thefts) and 17,274 UCR Part II crimes (2,828 sexual offenses. 5,353 drug offenses, 5,651 alcohol offenses, 972 weapons offenses, and 2,460 disorderly conduct. Figure 1 lends perspective to these numbers. Part I crimes, which are ordinarily thought to be the "most serious" crimes, make up more than 85 percent of the total. Part II crimes, which include many of the so-called "victimless" crimes, make up less than fifteen percent of the total. Another important difference between these two categories is that. while Part I crimes almost always begin with a citizen complaint, Part II crimes may result from proactive policing. For this reason, Part II crimes have turned out to be less interesting to this study. Although we find a strong relationship between the distribution of Part II crimes (especially Part II sex offenses) and the locations of adult businesses, we cannot draw a valid causal relationship from this finding. Part I crimes are quite another matter. As shown in Figure 1, Part I crimes can be divided further into Personal and Property categories. Personal crimes (or crimes against the person) account for approximately twenty percent of the Part I total. Seventy-eight percent of Personal crimes are assaults; 1S percent are robberies, three percent are rapes, EVER00357