{"id":451924,"date":"2025-12-16T23:20:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/451924\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T23:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:20:13","slug":"san-antonio-crime-down-13-as-property-crime-declines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/451924\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio crime down 13% as property crime declines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crime is down in San Antonio this year, driven largely by reductions in property-related offenses. <\/p>\n

On Tuesday, San Antonio Police Department Chief William McManus presented <\/strong>data from the FBI\u2019s National Incident-Based Reporting System to the City Council\u2019s Public Safety Committee. <\/p>\n

From January through November, total Group A offenses \u2014 the primary crime categories reported by U.S. law enforcement to the FBI \u2014 fell about 13% compared with the same period in 2024. Property crime declined roughly 18%, while crimes against persons fell about 9% during the same period.<\/p>\n

SAPD\u2019s latest figures show declines across several major crime categories compared with the same period in 2024, a trend city leaders have closely watched as they press the department to focus on offenses that most directly affect residents\u2019 daily lives<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Property crime saw the largest overall decrease, falling about 18% from 100,457 offenses last year to 82,232 this year. The data showed sharp reductions across several high-volume categories that have been a key focus of city leaders<\/a> and law enforcement in recent years.<\/p>\n

Motor vehicle theft fell about 26%, while reports of larceny and theft declined roughly 14%. Incidents of destruction, damage and vandalism dropped nearly 30%, accounting for one of the largest single-category decreases during the first 11 months of the year.<\/p>\n

Burglary and breaking-and-entering offenses declined more modestly, falling about 4% compared with the same period last year.<\/p>\n

Crimes against persons declined about 9% compared with the same period last year, driven largely by a drop of more than 3,000 assault offenses, which remain the most common violent crime category in San Antonio.<\/p>\n

In total, 28,361 crimes against persons were reported from Jan. 1 through the end of November, down from 31,180 during the same period in 2024.<\/p>\n

In contrast, crimes against society increased by about 15%, rising from 11,892 offenses last year to 13,721, bucking the downward trend seen in other categories.<\/p>\n

The increase was driven largely by a rise in drug and narcotics offenses, which accounted for more than 81% of crimes against society reported during the first 11 months of the year.<\/p>\n

McManus said the increase in crimes against society reflects heightened enforcement rather than a surge in underlying criminal behavior.<\/p>\n

\u201cCrimes against society typically don\u2019t get reported unless there\u2019s an arrest made,\u201d McManus said, adding that the rise points to more proactive policing activity by patrol officers and specialized units.<\/p>\n

Other offenses in the category, including animal cruelty, weapons law violations and prostitution offenses, saw slight reductions.<\/p>\n

SAPD officials noted that NIBRS data can change throughout the year as cases are reclassified or reported later by victims.<\/p>\n

The department also reported improvements in calls for service and response times. Emergency response times declined to an average of 5 minutes and 29 seconds through November \u2014 nearly a one-minute improvement since 2023 \u2014 while both emergency and non-emergency call volumes continued to trend downward year over year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crime is down in San Antonio this year, driven largely by reductions in property-related offenses. On Tuesday, San…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":451925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,99185,58248,4219,154867,207476,95059,175327,5292,189449,194902,7202,207477,20591,7203,7725,207478,37446,207479,358,7453,3187,7815,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,7819],"class_list":{"0":"post-451924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-chief-william-mcmanus","10":"tag-city-of-san-antonio","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-crime-data","13":"tag-jesus-salame-jr","14":"tag-maria-villagomez","15":"tag-misty-spears","16":"tag-public-safety","17":"tag-public-safety-committee","18":"tag-public-safety-committee-san-antonio","19":"tag-san-antonio","20":"tag-san-antonio-crime-data-2025","21":"tag-san-antonio-police-department","22":"tag-sanantonio","23":"tag-sapd","24":"tag-sapd-chief","25":"tag-sukh-kaur","26":"tag-terri-castillo","27":"tag-texas","28":"tag-top-story","29":"tag-tx","30":"tag-typedaily","31":"tag-united-states","32":"tag-united-states-of-america","33":"tag-unitedstates","34":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","35":"tag-us","36":"tag-usa","37":"tag-wc-500-750"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}