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Council Memorandum
March 26, 2021
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Neil Gallucci, Chief of Police
Scott Chadwick, City Manager
2020 Crime Statistics (District:
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Carlsbad
Memo ID #2021068
This memorandum provides information related to 2020 year-end crime statistics.
Background
At the end of each calendar year, crime statistics are totaled and reported to SAN DAG, the FBI
and the California Department of Justice. Crimes are initially entered into an electronic report
writing system by our officers, which once approved, are transferred automatically to the
Automated Regional Justice Information System, known as ARJIS. Reports are pulled from ARJIS
on a monthly basis to retrieve our crime statistics.
Statistics run in ARJIS are based on the date the crime report is approved, not the dates on which
the crimes were committed. This practice enables the county to track all crimes happening with a
running total rather than constantly updating prior statistics. Because Carlsbad works with the
county-wide systems, which include the electronic report writing system and ARJIS, we cannot
change how stats are counted and reported.
Discussion
In January 2021 it was discovered that approximately 160 crime reports from 2020 never
transferred into ARJIS, and so were never being counted in our monthly crime statistics. This was
caused by a systems issue in the electronic report writing system program, NetRMS. This system
issue was reported to the Net RMS programming team, who created a query that would show all
the unreported documents. The department was then able to run a special interface that would
transfer all the unaccounted reports into ARJIS. This transfer was completed in February 2021.
Because of ARJIS counting crimes on the date of report approval, the crimes from these reports
will show in the February 2021 statistics, not in 2020.
For reporting purposes, criminal offenses are divided into two major groups: Part 1 and Part 2.
Part 1 crimes are collectively known as Index crimes, which are considered more serious and are
reported to SANDAG, FBI and the Department of Justice. Part 2 crimes are considered minor
offenses. The department was able to filter out the Part 1 crimes and manually add them to our
official counts for 2020. The attached chart breaks down what was reported to SAN DAG, FBI and
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Department of Justice, along with the crimes that were manually added to provide our true
statistics for 2020.
Because of submittal deadlines for SAN DAG, FBI and the Department of Justice, we were not able
to include the added crimes to our "official" statistics ..
Next Steps
The Police Department has created a query that runs automatically and is sent to the police
records manager each day. This report will catch any reports that were not transferred to ARJIS
and will be manually added the following day to ensure the statistics are up to date.
Attachment: FBI Index Crime Summary 2020
cc: Geoff Patnoe, Assistant City Manager
Celia Brewer, City Attorney
Cindy Anderson, Senior Management Analyst
Carlsbad Police Department
FBI INDEX CRIME SUMMARY
Year-End 2020
Year End Manually *Revised* Year End
CLASSIFICATION 2020 Added 2020 2019 CHANGE
HOMICIDE 3 0 3 3
RAPE 24 0 24 40
ROBBERY 35 0 35 39
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT 162 3 165 158
Violent Crime 224 3 227 240
BURGLARY 256 4 260 297
Residential 108 2 110 134
Non-Residential 148 2 150 163
LARCENY/THEFT 1428 23 1451 1671
STOLEN VEHICLE 157 11 168 167
Property Crime 1841 38 1879 2135
FBI INDEX CRIME TOTAL 2065 41 2106 2375
*Additional stats were not reported to FBI for 2020 due to computer reporting issue and were
added manually after year-end totals.
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