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Escambia County violent crimes are not up

   January 12, 2016

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At last night’s Republican debate for sheriff, the topic of crime naturally came up.

Challenger John Johnson focused on crime rates, insisting Pensacola had higher violent crime rates per capita than Jacksonville, Tampa, St. Petersburg and Miami-Dade.

Escambia County has had a high per capita crime rate for decades. However, the violent crimes have declined since David Morgan took office in 2009, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

Murders, robbery and aggravated assaults dropped from 2008 to 2014 (the most recent year on the FDLE website). The forcible sex offenses increased by five offenses, a 1.8 percent increase. Total violent crimes dropped 21.5 percent.

Property crimes were slightly up for the period – 2.3 percent – due to a jump in larceny offenses. The overall crime index dropped 4.1 percent

Inweekly also looked at the current trend. Between 2013 and 2014, violent crimes dropped 1.8 percent, property crimes 10.2 percent and the overall crime index 9.1 percent.

See Escambia 2008 and Escambia 2014

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