Crime statistics for 2013 paint a positive picture (mostly)

10/04/2014

The NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research has published Recorded Crime Statistics 2013.

Improving

For the 24-month period to the end of December 2013 seven of the 17 major offence categories were trending downwards: robbery without a weapon (down 11.2%), break and enter dwelling (down 13.3%), break and enter non-dwelling (down 10.5%), motor vehicle theft (down 12.9%), steal from motor vehicle (down 5.0%), steal from person (down 11.8%) and malicious damage to property (down 8.1%).

Getting worse

Only two major offence categories have been trending upwards: indecent assault, act of indecency and other sexual offences (up 7.8%) and fraud (up 13.2%).