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    The Bakersfield Police Department saw a 0.6% decrease in the overall crime rate for the first nine months of 2009 compared to the same period in 2008. Violent crime increased 0.9% while property crime decreased 0.9%. There were 16 homicides from January to September 2009, with 14 being gang related, consistent with the 17 homicides and 46 gang shootings during the same period in 2008. Sexual assaults increased from 36 to 41 while robberies decreased 3.0% and aggravated assaults increased 2.7%. Property crimes as a whole decreased despite a 0.2% increase in larceny reports, with burglaries and auto thefts declining 1.4% and 4.1%, respectively

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    The Bakersfield Police Department saw a 0.6% decrease in the overall crime rate for the first nine months of 2009 compared to the same period in 2008. Violent crime increased 0.9% while property crime decreased 0.9%. There were 16 homicides from January to September 2009, with 14 being gang related, consistent with the 17 homicides and 46 gang shootings during the same period in 2008. Sexual assaults increased from 36 to 41 while robberies decreased 3.0% and aggravated assaults increased 2.7%. Property crimes as a whole decreased despite a 0.2% increase in larceny reports, with burglaries and auto thefts declining 1.4% and 4.1%, respectively

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    The Bakersfield Police Department saw a 0.6% decrease in the overall crime rate for the first nine months of 2009 compared to the same period in 2008. Violent crime increased 0.9% while property crime decreased 0.9%. There were 16 homicides from January to September 2009, with 14 being gang related, consistent with the 17 homicides and 46 gang shootings during the same period in 2008. Sexual assaults increased from 36 to 41 while robberies decreased 3.0% and aggravated assaults increased 2.7%. Property crimes as a whole decreased despite a 0.2% increase in larceny reports, with burglaries and auto thefts declining 1.4% and 4.1%, respectively

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    BAKERSFIELD POLICE

    DEPARTMENT
    PRESS RELEASE
    William Rector, Chief of Police
    ________________________________________________________________________
    Contact: Detective Mary DeGeare
    Public Information Officer
    661-326-3803
    mdegeare@Bakersfieldpd.us

    For Immediate Release October 14, 2009

    Crime Statistics for first nine months of 2009

    During the first nine months of 2009, the City of Bakersfield saw a 0.6% decrease
    in the overall crime rate compared with the same time period in 2008.

    During the first nine months of 2009 total violent crime increased 0.9% and total
    property crime fell 0.9%.

    There were 16 homicides from January – September 2009 compared to 17 for


    the same time period in 2008. Fourteen of the sixteen homicides were gang
    related. The number of gang related shootings for the first nine months of 2008
    and 2009 was 46 for both years.

    The number of sexual assaults (rape/attempted rapes) increased from 36 in 2008


    to 41 in 2009.

    Robberies overall decreased by 3.0%. Aggravated Assaults increased by 2.7%.

    Property crimes such as burglary, larceny and auto theft saw a decrease as a
    whole. Although Larceny reports increased by 0.2%, Burglaries decreased by
    1.4% and Auto Thefts decreased by 4.1%.

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