{"id":200298,"date":"2026-04-17T02:47:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200298\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T02:47:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:47:27","slug":"surge-in-arlington-property-crime-reportedly-exceeded-rise-in-chicago-and-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200298\/","title":{"rendered":"Surge in Arlington property crime reportedly exceeded rise in Chicago and NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arlington\u2019s surge in property crime<\/a> during and after the pandemic was the highest in the country by one measure, exceeding large increases in other urban areas.<\/p>\n

Between 2020 and 2024, crimes against property \u2014 including larceny, vandalism and motor vehicle theft \u2014 increased by 60.5% in Arlington, home security company Vivint reported yesterday<\/a> (Wednesday). The next-highest increase among studied localities was in Chicago (up 56.2%) followed by New York City (up 54.7%).<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the Mid-Atlantic, Baltimore saw a 32.5% increase in property crimes. Data for D.C. and other localities in the D.C. area does not appear to be included.<\/p>\n

The study, which analyzed FBI-reported monthly crime rates, included \u201conly cities with sufficient data.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vivint\u2019s research did not include 2025 data \u201cdue to incomplete and provisional reporting.\u201d If it did, it might have shown a slightly different picture in Arlington.<\/p>\n

Last year overall property crime declined by 14.9%, dropping from 8,649 in 2024 to 7,362 in 2025, Arlington County Police Department spokesperson Ashley Savage told ARLnow. Larceny\/theft offenses declined 14.4%, while offenses involving burglary or breaking and entering declined 6.7%.<\/p>\n

Overall crime, she added, declined by 10.9% from 2024 to 2025.<\/p>\n

Savage also pointed out that at least some of what looks like a rise in crime might be due to a change in how some crime is reported to police.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the pandemic [ACPD] expanded the use of online reporting which covers many property crimes,\u201d she said. \u201cThe convenience of online reporting for late, not-in-progress property crimes likely led to a better reporting of these incidents to police. Online reporting represented approximately 42% of total reports taken in 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the period observed by Vivint, Arlington also showed the largest jumps in larceny (64%) and burglary (44%) rates, along with a 39% increase in the rate of motor vehicle thefts.<\/p>\n

The study found that Arlington\u2019s average property crime rate in the summertime was about 152 per 100,000 \u2014 well below Chicago at 249 and on par with New York City at 151.<\/p>\n

Vivint\u2019s numbers are not entirely aligned with ACPD data<\/a>, which showed a property crime increase of approximately 55% during the same time period.<\/p>\n

So far this year, Arlington County continues to see a declining property crime rate, according to county data<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A total of 1,646 instances of property crime were reported in Arlington during the first quarter of 2026. On pace for 6,584 total property crime reports, that would be a drop of roughly 11% from 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arlington\u2019s surge in property crime during and after the pandemic was the highest in the country by one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[303,9,12,56,63,65,64,104,797],"class_list":{"0":"post-200298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news","15":"tag-police","16":"tag-theft"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}