The FBI’s Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report, January-December, 2011-2012, has been released online. The news is a mixed bag for Santa Ana. Overall violent crime has gone up marginally by 2% from the previous year, but some categories of violent crime have seen increases of up to 23% while others have dropped by as much as 64%
You can read the data for yourself here. You can compare this data to past years by looking at the FBI crime data from 2010 and 2011 here. I put all of the Santa Ana info into a spreadsheet that you can look at here. Continue reading