THE number of crimes being reported across Bradford each month has jumped by more than 20 per cent since the beginning of the year.
According to the latest police data, there were 7,668 crimes in the district in May.
The figures from the data.police.uk website show that this compares to 7,012 in April, 6,830 in March, 6,500 in February and 6,375 in January.
It indicates a rise of 20.3 per cent since the first month of the year.
The most common reported crime continues to be violence and sexual offences, where there were 3,275 in May, followed by 931 public order offences and 805 incidents of anti-social behaviour.
These crimes also showed a significant increase on the previous month.
There were also 646 reports of criminal damage and arson, and 476 reports classified as “other theft”. This includes theft by an employee, blackmail and making off without payment.
There were also 358 vehicle crimes, 304 burglaries, and 268 incidents of shoplifting.
In total there were 192 drugs offences, and 183 classed as “other crimes”, which includes forgery, perjury and other miscellaneous crime.
There were also 77 robberies, 66 theft from the person reports, 55 possession of a weapon incidents and 32 bicycle thefts.
You can browse through the map or search for a street name or postcode, to see the level of each type of crime on every road in the whole of the Bradford district.
Read more in our series of crime maps:
Every crime across Bradford in April 2023
Every crime across Bradford in March 2023
Every crime across Bradford in February 2023
Every crime across Bradford in January 2023
In 2022 there were just over 82,800 recorded crimes across Bradford. This can be broken down as follows:
Violence and sexual offences (36098); public order (10577); criminal damage and arson (7266); anti-social behaviour (7256); other theft (5018); vehicle crime (3978); shoplifting (3072); burglary (3008); drugs (2322); other crime (1916); robbery (709); theft from person (706); possession of weapons (621); and bicycle theft (325).
The points on the map represent the approximate location of a crime or incident - not the exact place that it happened.
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