Pillar Deep Dive

Public Safety in Long Beach

Crime totals and an interactive citywide map, tracked live with the City's own public data.

What the city has said about public safety — and where this page fills the gap

In December 2025, LBPD launched a public Crime Dashboard in the name of "transparency and accountability." It's a real step — but it can't tell you how your own council district is doing.

What the city has reported
Through the first half of 2025, LBPD reported a 29% drop in citywide shootings and a 28% drop in homicides compared to the year before — five-year lows — alongside S.T.R.O.N.G. Beach, a longer-term, cross-department initiative aimed at sustaining those gains by addressing the root causes of youth violence.
21 days. The reporting lag LBPD itself discloses on its dashboard — the same lag this page's own "data as of" notes account for.
The gap this page fills: The department's dashboard breaks crime down by police beat, not by City Council district — the boundary residents actually vote on. This page cross-references LBPD's own open data to close that gap.
How this page does it differently
The department's own dashboard is a real step toward transparency, and its numbers come from the same open dataset this page uses. But there's no official way to see whether crime is rising or falling in your own council member's district. This page cross-references LBPD's reporting-district data against Council district boundaries to close that gap, using the City's own public numbers.
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Total crimes reported so far in 2026 — all categories combined

Where "crimes against persons" fits citywide

LBPD groups every incident into one of three NIBRS buckets. We focus on Person crimes because they carry the greatest public-safety weight, but here's the full 2026 year-to-date mix.

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Property Crime

Crimes involving theft, damage, or unauthorized use of property, with no direct violence against a person: larceny/theft, motor vehicle theft, burglary, vandalism, robbery, fraud, and arson.

Crimes Against Persons

Crimes where a person is the direct victim: assault, sex offenses, kidnapping/abduction, human trafficking, and homicide.

Society Crime

Sometimes called "victimless" crimes — offenses against public order rather than a specific individual: drug and weapons violations, prostitution, animal cruelty, and gambling.

What kinds of crimes against persons?

Live breakdown of 2026 year-to-date incidents by NIBRS offense category, compared to the same period last year.

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The specific offenses behind the numbers

"Assault" alone spans several distinct offenses. Here's the most granular live breakdown LBPD's data supports, compared to the same period last year.

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Which districts see the most crime?

Rolled up from reporting districts into City Council districts. Pick a year — the current year is still partial, so a completed past year gives a fairer comparison.

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Is it getting better or worse?

Crimes against persons, property crime, and society crime, reported each year since 2023 — pulled live from the City's dataset.

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Click any bar for exact figures.

Crimes Against Persons Property Crime Society Crime 2026 Projected Pace

2026 is a partial year in progress. The lighter, dashed segment stacked on top of each 2026 bar projects how much more that category is on pace to add by year-end, based on a simple straight-line estimate from year-to-date data — not a guarantee.

Which part of the city?

Crimes across LBPD's 316 police reporting districts. Choose a year, month, and day, filter by crime type or City Council District, search your address or a landmark, or click any district for a full breakdown.

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District boundaries: LBPD Police Reporting Districts, City of Long Beach GIS. The Year filter goes back to 2023, the earliest year this dataset covers in full; only the current year is year-to-date, every earlier year shown is a complete 12 months. The Day filter unlocks once a specific month is chosen. Districts with little or no color reported very few or zero incidents in the current filter — that reflects low incident volume, not missing data. Address search uses OpenStreetMap's Nominatim geocoder.

Where this data comes from

Every number on this page is pulled live, in your browser, from the City of Long Beach's own open data portal — not typed in by us.

"Crimes against persons" follows the FBI's NIBRS classification (assault, sex offenses, kidnapping/abduction, human trafficking, and homicide offenses), pulled from the crime_category and nibrs_offense fields. The interactive map and the multi-year trend chart include all three NIBRS categories — Person, Property, and Society — while the category and offense breakdowns above focus specifically on crimes against persons. The map joins incidents to LBPD's 316 reporting districts using the reporting_district field, matched against the City's official GIS boundary layer, and every district's filter and click-through breakdown is computed client-side from a single live pull of district × category × offense counts. This dataset doesn't include incident-level coordinates — addresses are anonymized to the block level for privacy — so the "By Council District" breakdown and map filter are built from a one-time spatial match instead: each reporting district's center point is matched to the City Council district that contains it, then existing reporting-district totals are rolled up along that match. A small number of reporting districts that straddle a council district line may be assigned to whichever side contains their center point. Year-over-year comparisons use the same date range in each year (January 1 through today's date) so partial years are compared fairly. Figures reflect incidents reported to LBPD, which can differ from incidents charged or prosecuted.