A handful of incident types (Theft, Disorder, Alarm, Traffic, and Community Policing) were 75% of almost 85,000 Oro Valley police reported incidents during the years in which the Majority-4 were in office.
This, according to our analysis of 84 months of police reported incident data from crime reports.com
Non violent crimes dominate list
Most of the incidents are about police assistance assistance of some sort. For example, most of the community policing incidents involve welfare checks (13% of all incidents) and suspicious activity. Though there were 47 different traffic incident types, public assistance and traffic accident reporting head this list. 14% of all reported incidents were the result of alarms; some false, some real.
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There were many reported incidents of a serious nature.
- 4226 suspicious vehicle stops
- 5,331 incidents of property crime, drug activity, assault, breaking and entering, and vehicle theft.
- 64 assaults with a deadly weapon.
- 3 homicides
95% of drug related offenses were for possession of a controlled substance. The controlled substance in over half of these instances was marijuana. We wonder where the drugs are coming from?
Beware: Theft could hit you
About half of the larceny crimes related to crimes against the ordinary citizen. This includes frauds of various types, stealing from a car or building, identify theft, stolen bicycles and purse snatching.
Violent crime rate is low
When it comes to violent crimes ( murder and negligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. ), Oro Valley is the safest city in Arizona according to safe home.org. Neighboring Tucson is #25. Our count was 224 violent crimes over the 8 year period. This equates to .65 violent crimes per thousand per year. This is far less than the statewide total of 5 violent crimes per thousand residents.(source).
