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Los Angeles Crime Rate — September 2025

West Hills vandalism ran 189% above its multi-year baseline.

Citywide incident volume was down 20.9% against the trailing twelve months in September 2025. The largest moves are summarized to the left and broken out below.

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

FIG 1 · LEAD ANOMALYVANDALISM · WEST HILLS · 24-MO COUNT
01631μ 19.4 · σ 5.6 · trailing 12-mo2023-102025-09ARCHIVED
West Hills vandalism, monthly count over 24 months ending in September 2025. The dashed line is the trailing-12-month mean for context. The final bar (highlighted) is September. Frozen view as published.

Sustained drops worth naming

Burglary ran below trend in the trailing 12 months — 26% down from the year before. Sustained shifts often precede a baseline reset; we surface them at the same prominence as spikes.

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