The San Antonio Express-News obtained a Police Department presentation that shows violent and property crime across the city fell in 2024.
Crime was down across the board in San Antonio last year, and police responded more quickly to calls for assistance, new statistics show. The number of homicides dropped 22.6%, from 164 in 2023 to 127 last year. Violent crimes against persons — a category that includes assault, human trafficking, kidnapping and sex offenses as well as homicide — decreased 2.4% overall. That came on top of a 9.6% drop the year before.
Violent crime in S.A. 'hot spots' plunged 37% under new policing strategy The data are from a San Antonio Police Department presentation, a copy of which was obtained by the Express-News. Police Chief William McManus was to present the 2024 crime statistics to the City Council's Public Safety Committee at its Jan. 21 meeting. But the session was canceled because of the winter storm, and it has not been rescheduled.
recorded 83 kidnappings in 2024, a 23.9% reduction from the year before. Reported sex offenses dropped nearly 20%, from 2,254 in 2023 to 1,807 last year. Assaults went from 31,553 in 2023 to 31,264 last year, a 0.9% decrease. 's average response time for emergency calls dropped to five minutes and 56 seconds. In 2023, it was 6 minutes and 20 seconds. Officers made 45,471 arrests in 2024, down slightly from 44,051 the previous year. The department has tried a number of strategies to drive down crime, including increased community policing and partnerships with neighborhood groups. In January 2023,
launched a three-year plan to cut violent crime in 130 'hot spots' with high rates of assault, homicide and other violent crimes. Each hot spot is a 100-meter-by-100-meter grid. In those areas, police officers were stationed in patrol cars with lights flashing for 15-minute intervals during periods of high crime. Violent crime dropped 37% in those blocks during 2023, and arrests were up 14%, McManus told the City Council last year.
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