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Los Angeles Crime Rate — February 2025

Watts other larceny ran 86% above its multi-year baseline.

Citywide incident volume was down 7.2% against the trailing twelve months in February 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 · WATTS · 24-MO COUNT
01733μ 20.7 · σ 5.5 · trailing 12-mo2023-032025-02ARCHIVED
Watts other larceny, monthly count over 24 months ending in February 2025. The dashed line is the trailing-12-month mean for context. The final bar (highlighted) is February. Frozen view as published.

Sustained drops worth naming

Homicide ran below trend in the trailing 12 months — 40% down from the year before. Sustained shifts often precede a baseline reset; we surface them at the same prominence as spikes.

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