Juvenile Crime Rate Continues to Decline
Crime impacts both real and perceived safety. It can also negatively affect investment in a community if a neighborhood is considered unsafe. This indicator tracks crime rate trends and juvenile arrests. The crime rate includes reported violent felonies (homicide, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault) and property felonies (burglary, motor vehicle theft, and larceny-theft).1
How is San Bernardino County Doing?
Crime Rate
San Bernardino County, 2014-2018
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In 2018, the overall crime rate in San Bernardino County stayed the same:
- The property crime rate decreased 6% between 2016 and 2017 and the violent crime rate decreased 3% during the same one-year period.
- Because property crimes account for most crime, the overall crime rate stayed the same between 2017 and 2018..
- The crime rate in San Bernardino County is one of the highest among neighboring counties compared and higher than the state.
- Due in part to a change in crime categorization, San Bernardino County witnessed a 8% drop in the property crime rate since 2014, when California voters passed Proposition 47, which reduced some nonviolent, nonserious crimes to misdemeanors.
Crime Rate
County Comparison, 2018
San Bernardino’s violent crime rate has increased since 2014:
- Between 2014 and 2018, the violent crime rate increased 24%.
- Specifically, since 2014, the rate of rape increased 93%, while the robbery rate increased 24%, aggravated assault rate increased 19%, and the homicide rate is up 12%. 3
- Between 2017 and 2018, the number of homicide victims was largely unchanged, dropping by two from 128 to 126. However, this figure is higher than in 2014, when there were 110 homicides.
Victims of Homicide
San Bernardino County, 2014-2018
Violent Crime Rate, by Type
San Bernardino County, 2014-2018
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Change from 2014 Rape* 22.5 29.4 32.8 39.1 43.4 93% Robbery 115.3 135.2 135.8 137.8 142.8 24% Aggravated Assault 249.3 297.6 313.8 289.4 296.8 19% Homicide 5.2 5.1 6.0 5.9 5.8 12%
Juvenile arrests are down:
- During the 10-year period between 2009 and 2018, juvenile arrests in San Bernardino County dropped 55%.
- In 2018, 56% of the juvenile arrests were for misdemeanor charges.
Juvenile Arrests
San Bernardino County, 2008-2017
LoadingSan Bernardino County Probation Department Day Reporting and Reentry Services Centers
The San Bernardino County Probation Department operates three Day Reporting and Reentry Services Centers (DRRSC) that are regionally-based adult facilities. The centers are funded with a portion of the monies received from AB 109. The centers are conveniently located, providing access to co-located multi-agency partners: Department of Behavioral Health (DBH), Transitional Assistance Department (TAD), Public Health, and Workforce Development Department. Each center has a dedicated Probation Homeless Services Coordinator, a clothing closet, and offers life skills and reentry support classes. Classes offered include, but are not limited to, anger management, employment, healthy life choices, parenting, cognitive journaling, food handler’s training, and computer skills training.
During fiscal years 2016/17 to 2018/19, more than 35,100 clients were seen at the Probation Department’s three DRRSCs. Of these clients:
• 7,381 were referred to DBH for assistance with behavioral health issues, dual diagnosis issues and/or coordination of outpatient treatment services;
• 4,575 were referred to Workforce Development for employment readiness training or job placement assistance;
• 4,048 were referred to TAD for assistance with accessing Cal-Fresh or health care enrollment;
• 1,225 were referred to Probation Housing Coordinators for housing assistance; and
• 853 were referred to Public Health for care coordination support, such as assistance with accessing prescriptions or a health care provider, and receiving health education services.