The numbers in the report showcase a downward trend in crime overall with reduced numbers in almost every category, MPD Chief Paul Prine states in the report.
According to the report, there were 33 homicides in the city during 2023 -- eight fewer than in 2022. That’s a 19.5 percent decrease.
Rapes were down by 35 percent -- from 119 to 77 comparing 2022 to 2023, the report shows. There were three more robberies in 2023 than 2022, with 146 robberies the most recent year, but burglaries were down. There were 870 burglaries in 2023 compared to 1,024 in 2022, or a 15 percent reduction. Prine wrote: “The City of Mobile reduced all Part I crimes by 17%, and 10% in violent crimes compared to 2022. Mobile experienced reductions in every crime category with exception of robberies, which was up 2%. In real numbers, that’s three robbery cases more than 2022.”
The chief wrote that taken together, the data for 2022 and 2023 collectively demonstrate crime is down more than 20% percent in all Part I crimes and 20% down in violent crimes during that same period compared to 2021. “The department’s strategic plan is working,” Prine wrote. “Crime is trending down, decremental, which allows us to adjust what works while sustaining the reduction going forward.”“Some of the things we’ve done to reduce that perception, although maybe not popular, is that we’ve reduced the number of perp walks we’ve done, certainly parted ways with the First 48. It was my perception that we were shining a light on the most egregious crime that one could be involved in,” he said.
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