{"id":200431,"date":"2026-03-21T13:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T13:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/200431\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T13:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T13:11:13","slug":"assaults-drive-up-violent-crime-incidents-ytd-incidents-down-tallahassee-reports-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/200431\/","title":{"rendered":"Assaults Drive Up Violent Crime Incidents, YTD Incidents Down \u2013 Tallahassee Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img width=\"884\" height=\"570\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Crimetape1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image lazy\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  data-\/>                                            <\/p>\n<p>Through October, crime incident data published daily by the Tallahassee Police Department shows that total crime incidents have declined by 31.7% when compared to incident data from January thru October in 2024. The drop was driven by a 43.5% decline in commercial burglaries and a 34.3% decline auto related crime incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the year-to-date declines, over the last three months violent crime incidents related to assaults are up 29% when compared to the same three-month period in 2024. During this period in 2024 there were 163 reported assaults, compared to 210 assaults in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The YTD Numbers<\/p>\n<p>The incident data -tabulated by TR \u2013 show that property crime incidents are down 38.0% and violent crime incidents are down 16.8% during the 9-month period.<\/p>\n<p>Property crimes encompass burglaries, thefts, and incidents of vandalism. Violent incidents include aggravated assaults, armed robberies, and physical altercations.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"907\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Crime-1-1104.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-241616 lazy\"  data-\/><\/p>\n<p>A look at specific crimes (see table below) reveals the decrease in property crime was driven by a 43.5% decrease in commercial burglaries and a 26.5% decrease in residential burglaries. The Auto Burglary &amp; Theft category \u2013 which accounts for approximately 55% of all property crimes \u2013 was down 34.3%.<\/p>\n<p>The violent crime data shows that robbery incidents were down 18.3%, while assault &amp; battery incidents were down 14.1%.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"308\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Crime-2-1104.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-241617 lazy\"  data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Fatal Shootings<\/p>\n<p>During this 10-month period, there have been 16 fatal shootings in 2025, compared to 21 fatal shooting deaths in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774098673_406_a3a0aa1abb3a437c31d2fcb36e3daa871ab962337aec6126509e2dc7f6bf9bd1.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo lazy\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" decoding=\"async\"\/>                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Through October, crime incident data published daily by the Tallahassee Police Department shows that total crime incidents have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-200431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200431","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=200431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}