Statistics
Security statistics, sourced and dated
Burglary, false alarm and retail theft figures taken from primary sources: SDPD’s own published data, the FBI, the Department of Justice and the National Retail Federation. Every figure carries its source, the period it covers, what kind of number it is, and the date we retrieved it.
In this section
Three pages
San Diego commercial burglary statistics
SDPD commercial and residential burglary, 2020 to 2025, with district rankings and clearance rates.
False alarm statistics for San Diego
How many burglary alarm calls SDPD is dispatched to, and how few end in a report or an arrest.
Retail shrink statistics
What the NRF publishes on shrink, what it stopped publishing, and San Diego recorded shoplifting.
How the figures are handled
Every number carries its source
Every figure on these pages comes from a primary source: a police department’s own published data, a federal agency, or the body that publishes the series. Each is printed with who published it, the period it covers, what kind of number it is, and the date we retrieved it.
The kind of number matters more than it looks. A COUNT is a tally of recorded events. An ESTIMATE is a figure its publisher projected or surveyed. A DERIVED figure is one we computed from a published series, and it is marked as ours, never attributed to the agency whose data it came from.
Where a figure the industry repeats has no primary source behind it, it is not on these pages. If you think we have read a dataset wrongly, tell us and we will correct the page. The false alarm data is the evidence behind remote video monitoring, and the burglary data sits behind our theft and burglary work.