Violent crime rates highest in a decade in San Diego region

SAN DIEGO — A new SANDAG report released Thursday says violent crime rates so far this year are the highest they've been in a decade. 

The report gives us a glimpse at how violent crime has evolved following the pandemic. The mid-year report covers crimes reported between January and June of this year.

“There are four violent crimes that we track – homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assaults. and we did see that looking back till 2012, we had the highest violent crime rate per resident population that we’ve seen," said Dr. Cindy Burke, Senior director of data science with SANDAG...