Last week the Boston Police released its first half-year crime statistics that compares January 1, 2021 through July 25, 2021 with the same time period last year and found both Violent Part One Crime and Non-violent Part One Crime to be down.
Part One Crimes are the more serious crimes that the Boston Police and other law enforcement agencies track and in East Boston the overall Violent Part One Crime is down 35 percent so far this year when compared to the same six months in 2020.
According to the statistics, there were no Homicides reported in Eastie through July 25, 2021. This was the same number between January 1 and July 25 of last year.
Robbery or Attempted Robbery was down 57 percent with 35 incidents reported in the first half of 2020 and only 15 reported so far this year.
Domestic Aggravated Assault is down 30 percent with 37 incidents reported in the first half of 2020 and 26 reported so far this year.
Non-domestic Aggravated Assault is also down and dropped 27 percent with 33 incidents reported during the first half of 2020 and 24 incidents reported so far this year.
However, Rape and Attempted Rape is up 50 percent in the neighborhood with 4 being reported during the first half od last year and 6 reported so far in 2021.
Overall there were a total of 71 Violent Part One Crimes between January 1, 2021 and July 25, 2021. This was down from the 109 Violent Part One Crimes reported during the same period last year.
As for Non-Violent Part One Crimes the numbers are down 18 percent in Eastie. These crimes include Commercial Burglary, Residential Burglary, Larceny From Motor Vehicle, Other Larceny and Auto Theft.
According to the report Commercial Burglary is down 50 percent and went from 14 incidents reported during the first half of 2020 to 7 incidents reported so far this year.
Residential Burglary is down 5 percent and went from 36 reported incidents during the first half of 2020 to 34 incidents reported so far in 2021.
Larceny From Motor Vehicles, which was a huge problem in Eastie last year, has dropped 56 percent with 156 incidents reported during the first half of 2020 and only 69 incidents reported so far this year.
Auto Theft is down 29 percent in Eastie with 28 incidents being reported during the first half of 2020 and only 20 incidents reported so far this year.
The one spike in Non-Violent Part One Crimes was Other Larcenies, which has risen 72 percent during the first half of the year. Last year there were 87 incidents reported during the first half of 2020 but that number has grown to 150 reported incidents so far this year.
Overall there were 351 Non-Violent Part One Crimes, down 18 percent from the 430 reported during the first six months of 2020.