{"id":127835,"date":"2026-01-22T14:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/127835\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T14:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:09:08","slug":"crime-rates-declining-in-st-petersburg-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/127835\/","title":{"rendered":"Crime rates declining in St. Petersburg: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; The St. Petersburg Police Department has released data from the past year&#8217;s crime rates, and it points towards a decline in criminal activity.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">According to the FBI&#8217;s Uniform Crime Reporting, or UCR data, St. Pete had the lowest number of homicides, 10, since 1967. That&#8217;s 44% lower than last year, when there were 18 homicides, and 44% lower than the five-year average.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">According to the UCR, total crime was down 16% in 2025, with auto thefts down 29% and fatal crashes down 31%.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/police-tape-crime-tape_1494504598105_3293547_ver1.0.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;I&#8217;m pleased that the hard work of our officers and detectives, along with the use of the latest crime-fighting technology, is paying off and the numbers prove is,&#8221; said St. Pete Chief of Police, Anthony Holloway.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/st-pete-mayor-ken-welch-rays-potentially-moving-tampa-focuses-reelection-bid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">St. Pete Mayor Ken Welch on Rays potentially moving to Tampa<\/a><\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">By the numbers:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Crime statistics for 2025:<\/p>\n<p> Homicides: 10 (5-year average is 18)Robbery: 175 (5-year average is 224)Auto theft: 406 (5-year average is 735)Fatal crashes: 24 (compared to 35 last year) <\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was made with information from a press release by the St. Petersburg Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pinellas County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; The St. Petersburg Police Department has released data from the past year&#8217;s crime rates,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[630,47,115,1157,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-127835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pinellas","12":"tag-st-pete","13":"tag-st-pete-headlines","14":"tag-st-pete-news","15":"tag-st-petersburg","16":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","17":"tag-st-petersburg-news","18":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}