\t\t\t\t\tOverview: La Mesa Police Department<\/p>\n
\u201cWe attribute the decrease in crime to a combination of proactive policing, information-led policing strategies, and strong community partnerships.”<\/p>\n
La Mesa residents and businesses got some good news recently: Crime saw an overall decline in the third quarter of 2025, with total crime cases falling compared to a year earlier during the same period.<\/p>\n
According to the report from the La Mesa Chief of Police. the La Mesa Police Department<\/a> successfully put to bed a number of cases, including those involving a vehicle robbery with a firearm in play and a countywide commercial burglary series leading to a number of arrests. <\/p>\n LMPD also oversaw a number of DUI checkpoints and traffic enforcement details to improve roadway safety around the city.<\/p>\n \u201cWe attribute the decrease in crime to a combination of proactive policing, information-led policing strategies, and strong community partnerships,\u201d said LMPD Lieutenant Travis Higgins. \u201cWe continue to concentrate on crime prevention outreach as well as maintaining a presence in residential neighborhoods and retail areas. <\/p>\n \u201cOur crime analyst also does a fantastic job of keeping us up to date on where the current hot spots, are so we can increase patrols in those areas.\u201d <\/p>\n He credited outreach efforts with doing the heavy lifting of fighting crime through good, mutually cooperative relationships with locals, affording them the ability to get ahead of crime trends. <\/p>\n Being active in the community as a police force, Higgins went on to say, <\/p>\n \u201cWe have a dedicated community engagement specialist who works closely with community members and local businesses to help prevent crime,\u201d Higgings added. <\/p>\n \u201cAt events like Coffee-with-Cop, Citizens\u2019 Academy<\/a>, and National Night Out<\/a>, we\u2019ve received positive feedback regarding our visible presence in the community, attendance at community gatherings, active engagement on social media, quick responses to their questions and concerns.\u201dA<\/p>\n Anyone in need of crime prevention advice, information on Neighborhood Watch<\/a> programs, site security inspections, or vacation checks while they are out of town is encouraged to contact La Mesa\u2019s community engagement specialist Bri Ohlendorf at (619) 667-7545 or bmunguia@cityoflamesa.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n READ NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overview: La Mesa Police Department \u201cWe attribute the decrease in crime to a combination of proactive policing, information-led…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":456052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,4219,51369,2961,10506,74131,224,5337,17953],"class_list":{"0":"post-456051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-crime-rates","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-la-mesa","14":"tag-la-mesa-police-department","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-police-officers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115741899685519047","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456051","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=456051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}