City of Morgan Hill Public Safety Master Plan

average. The UCR Part 1 property crime rate of 1,472 crimes per 100,000 population was 40 percent below the state average and 41 percent below the national average. It is not intended that the table of comparative crime rates be used to compare Morgan Hill against any other specific regional city; rather, it is meant as an illustration of its crime rate in relation to the region, state, and nation.

TABLE 2-1: Reported Crime Rates in 2014, by City, per 100,000 population

Crime Rates

City

State

Population

Violent

Property

Total

Campbell

California

40,872

198

3,396

3,594

Cupertino

California

60,564

66

1,694

1,760

East Palo Alto

California

29,377

422

1,954

2,376

Gilroy

California

52,415

376

2,835

3,211

Hollister

California

36,967

368

1,347

1,715

Los Altos

California

30,256

23

1,064

1,087

Los Gatos

California

30,614

75

2,012

2,087

Milpitas

California

70,568

159

3,020

3,178

Monterey

California

28,512

403

3,584

3,988

Mountain View

California

78,759

198

2,042

2,240

Palo Alto

California

67,169

88

1,934

2,022

Santa Cruz

California

63,440

828

5,154

5,982

Saratoga

California

31,122

61

925

986

Watsonville

California

52,778

502

2,821

3,323

Morgan Hill

California

41,585

156

1,472

1,628

California

38,970,399

389

2,430

2,819

United States

324,699,246

357

2,464

2,821

Note : Rates are shown as crimes per 100,000 population.

Figure 2-1 depicts the nine-year trend for both violent and property crimes in Morgan Hill. Figure 2-2 compares the nine-year trend for the overall rate of crime (violent and property combined) in Morgan Hill and California.

Police Operations and Data Analysis Report, Morgan Hill, California

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