Data released from Washington law enforcement agencies showed a rise in serious criminal offenses committed in Washington from 2021 to 2022.<\/p>\n
The Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs released its 2022 annual report regarding crime in Washington, with data showing an 8.5% increase in serious offenses, classified as Group A offenses, from 2021.<\/p>\n
In 2022, 204 participating Washington law enforcement agencies reported 527,124 Group A offenses in comparison to 485,826 Group A Offenses reported in 2021.<\/p>\n
Washington held a crime rate of 67.5 per 1,000 in population in 2022.<\/p>\n
The annual report breaks data into categories including, crimes against persons like murder, manslaughter, rape, human trafficking offenses and more; crimes against property like robbery, burglary, theft, motor vehicle theft and more; and crimes against society like animal cruelty, drug and narcotic violations, pornography and more.<\/p>\n
All crime categories saw increases in 2022 from 2021.<\/p>\n
Crimes against persons saw a 4.9% increase, with 109,963 offenses reported in 2022, up from 104,842 in 2021.<\/p>\n
Crimes against property saw a 9.8% increase, with 400,304 offenses reported in 2022, up from 364,614 in 2021.<\/p>\n
Crimes against society saw a 8.9% increase, with 16,857 offenses reported in 2022, up from 16,370 in 2021.<\/p>\n
Specifically violent crime also saw an increase in 2022, with an 8.9% increase from 2021. In 2022, agencies reported 32,397 violent offenses in comparison to 29,750 violent offenses in 2021.<\/p>\n
Renton <\/strong><\/p>\n The City of Renton saw an increase in serious crimes in 2022 from 2021.<\/p>\n Renton saw an approximately 6.4% increase in Group A crimes from 2022 to 2021, with 8,353 Group A crimes committed in 2022, up from 7,852 in 2021.<\/p>\n With a total population of 107,500, Renton held a Group A crime rate of 77.7 per 1,000 in population in 2022, an increase from 2021’s rate of 74.6 per 1,000 in population. Renton’s Group A crime rate served as higher than the statewide rate of 67.5.<\/p>\n Renton witnessed an increase in several categories of offenses, including murders, aggravated assaults, burglaries, simple assaults, robberies, burglaries, motor vehicle thefts, and larceny theft.<\/p>\n According to the annual report, Renton saw decreases in rapes and drug and narcotic violations.<\/p>\n With a total of 958 offenses, crimes against persons in Renton accounted for approximately 11.5% of the total number of Group A offenses committed within the city. Renton’s crime rate for crimes against persons served as lower than the statewide rate, at 8.9 per 1,000 in comparison to 14.1 per 1,000.<\/p>\n With a total of 7,295 offenses, crimes against property in Renton accounted for approximately 87.4% of the total number of Group A offenses committed within the city. Renton’s crime rate for crimes against property served as higher than the statewide rate, at 67.9 per 1,000 in comparison to 51.21 per 1,000.<\/p>\n With a total of 100 offenses, crimes against society in Renton accounted for approximately 1.1% of the total number of Group A offenses committed within the city. Renton’s crime rate for crimes against society served as lower than the statewide rate, at 0.9 per 1,000 in comparison to 2.21 per 1,000.<\/p>\n Crimes against persons and violent crime <\/strong><\/p>\n According to the annual report, agencies reported a total of 110,726 crimes against persons in total in 2022, approximately 20.9% of the 530,994 total Group A offenses reported.<\/p>\n With a total population of 7,856,768 for the State of Washington in 2022, the statewide crime rate for crimes against persons equals 14.1 per 1,000.<\/p>\n Out of the 110,726 crimes against persons, the National Incident-Based Reporting System classified 32,571 of the offenses specifically as violent crime. Offenses classified specifically as violent crime include murder, forcible sex offenses, robbery, and aggravated assault.<\/p>\n According to the annual report, a majority of crimes against persons consisted of simple assaults, aggravated assaults, and violations of no-contact orders.<\/p>\n Juveniles served as 12.3% of the victims of crimes against persons.<\/p>\n Of the offenses specifically classified as violent crime, aggravated assaults accounted for 60.8% of the offenses, with robbery accounting for 21%, forcible sex offenses accounting for 17%, and murder — 1.2%.<\/p>\n The statewide crime rate for violent crime serves as 4.1 per 1,000.<\/p>\n Female victims served as the victims of 47.2% of violent crimes.<\/p>\n Juvenile victims served as the victims in 16.1% of violent crimes.<\/p>\n As per the locations of violent crimes, a majority of violent crimes occurred in residences, on highways and roads, and at parking lots and garages.<\/p>\n In regards to the relationship between the victim and offender, the offender served as a stranger to the victim in 56.2% of cases.<\/p>\n Crimes against property <\/strong><\/p>\n According to the annual report, agencies reported a total of 402,872 crimes against property in total in 2022, approximately 75.9% of the total Group A offenses reported.<\/p>\n The statewide crime rate for crimes against property in 2022 served as 51.21 per 1,000.<\/p>\n A majority of crimes against property consisted of larceny theft, destruction of property, and motor vehicle theft.<\/p>\n Crimes against property resulted in a total of approximately $668.9 million of stolen property in 2022, with law enforcement recovering approximately $179.7 million.<\/p>\n The top stolen property items in 2022 included vehicle parts and accessories, money, automobiles, and clothes and furs.<\/p>\n Crimes against society <\/strong><\/p>\n According to the annual report, agencies reported a total of 17,396 crimes against society in total in 2022, approximately 3.3% of the total Group A offenses reported.<\/p>\n The statewide crime rate for crimes against society in 2022 served as 2.21 per 1,000.<\/p>\n Possessing and concealing, using and consuming, and distributing and selling weapons and narcotics accounted for a majority of crimes against society in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Renton witnessed an increase in several categories of offenses including murders, aggravated assaults, burglaries and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1126,"featured_media":41959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41958"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}