FBI reports 2013 reported crimes down, homicides and rapes up

SHERIFF PRESS RELEASE - The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department has released preliminary FBI Part I crime statistics for 2013 indicating a reduction in reported crimes for the period where crime data is currently known, January through October, as compared to that same period of time in 2012. The trend in crime data indicates sharp drops in reported violent crime in the Sheriff’s areas of Riverside County, and smaller drops in overall property crime as well.

Although homicides were up sharply, along with an increase in the preliminary numbers of forcible rapes reported to the Sheriff, the FB...