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Los Angeles Crime Rate — August 2025

Encino other larceny ran 56% above its multi-year baseline.

Citywide incident volume was down 18.7% against the trailing twelve months in August 2025. The largest moves are summarized to the left and broken out below.

The headline is in Porter Ranch, where vandalism jumped sharply against the prior baseline. The neighborhood page (link in the sidebar) walks through the geography and timing.

FIG 1 · LEAD ANOMALYOTHER LARCENY · ENCINO · 24-MO COUNT
03570μ 32.6 · σ 12.3 · trailing 12-mo2023-092025-08ARCHIVED
Encino other larceny, monthly count over 24 months ending in August 2025. The dashed line is the trailing-12-month mean for context. The final bar (highlighted) is August. Frozen view as published.

Sustained drops worth naming

Homicide ran below trend in the trailing 12 months — 27% down from the year before. Sustained shifts often precede a baseline reset; we surface them at the same prominence as spikes.

CITEPublic Analyst.ai, “August 2025Los Angeles,” archived snapshot.Permanent URL: /los-angeles/2025/august