Lafayette Crime Stats Released: Many Crimes Down From 2008

Posted: Feb 2, 2010 3:41 PM by Rob Kirkpatrick

The Lafayette Police Department is showing an overall reduction in all but one crime category over 2009 within the City of Lafayette. The category of Theft had an increase in numbers from the previous years. Police attribute the increase to the large number of car burglaries that occurred during the year. The Lafayette Police Department was able to make several car burglary arrests which cleared a number of these cases. Below is a chart with the 2009 Uniform Crime Report Statistics and its comparison to 2008.

UCR Crime	2008	2009	%
Homicide	11	8	-27%
Rape	73	33	-55%
Robbery	307	285	-7%
Assault	2582	2465	-5%
Burglary	1421	1407	-1%
Theft	4840	5613	+16%
Auto Theft	506	433	-14%

Arson	32	25	-21%

Arrest under 18	1146	1213	+6%
Adult Arrest	10312	12447	+21%
Totals	11458	13660	+19%

Calls for Service	192940	204918	+6%