Editing San Diego (section)

===Crime===
{{Main|Crime in San Diego}}
[[File:Balboa Park, San Diego, CA, USA - panoramio (129) (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|[[San Diego Police Department]]]]
Like most major cities, San Diego had a declining crime rate from 1990 to 2000. 1991 would mark the city's deadliest year, registering 179 homicides<ref>{{cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/a1b8a394931f8033249fd2f31f9ec951|title=Once Again, Homicide Records Fall in Many Big Cities With Graphic|publisher=Associated Press|author=Landsberg, Mitchell|date=January 2, 1992|access-date=January 1, 2020}}</ref> within city limits (while the [[San Diego County|region]] as a whole peaked at 278 homicides),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sandag.org/uploads/publicationid/publicationid_1848_17457.pdf|title=Thirty Years of Crime in the San Diego Region: 1984 through 2013|author=Burke, Cynthia|date=April 2014|access-date=January 1, 2020|archive-date=March 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304163135/https://www.sandag.org/uploads/publicationid/publicationid_1848_17457.pdf}}</ref> capping off an unabated, eight-year climb in murders, rapes, robberies, and assault dating back to 1983. At the time, the city was ranked last among the 10 most populous U.S. cities in homicides per 1,000 population, and ninth in crimes per 1,000.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-12-05-mn-681-story.html|title=Violent Crime Is Up Sharply in San Diego|author=Platte, Mark|work=Los Angeles Times|date=December 5, 1991|access-date=December 25, 2020}}</ref> From 1980 to 1994, San Diego surpassed 100 murders ten times before tapering off to 91 homicides in 1995. That number would not exceed 79 for the next 15 years.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sandiego.gov/sites/default/files/crime-actuals1950-2019.pdf|title=San Diego Historical Crime Actuals|date=1950–2020|access-date=December 25, 2020}}</ref> Crime in San Diego increased in the early 2000s.<ref name="sdpdcrimeactuals">{{cite web|url=http://www.sandiego.gov/police/pdf/UCR50to2006.pdf|title=SDPD Historical Crime Actuals 1950–2006|publisher=San Diego Police Department|date=April 14, 2006|access-date=April 22, 2009|archive-date=March 25, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325032143/http://www.sandiego.gov/police/pdf/UCR50to2006.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="sdpdcrime1000">{{cite web|url=http://www.sandiego.gov/police/pdf/UCRrates50to2006.pdf|title=SDPD Historical Crime Rates Per 1,000 Population 1950–2006|publisher=San Diego Police Department|date=April 14, 2006|access-date=April 22, 2009|archive-date=March 25, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325032144/http://www.sandiego.gov/police/pdf/UCRrates50to2006.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="sdtribunecrime">{{cite news|last=Manolatos|first=Tony|author2=Kristina Davis|url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060414/news_7m14stats.html|title=County crows at glowing crime report|work=[[San Diego Union-Tribune]]|date=April 14, 2006|access-date=April 22, 2009}}</ref> In 2004, San Diego had the sixth lowest crime rate of any U.S. city with over half a million residents.<ref name="sdtribunecrime"/> From 2002 to 2006, the crime rate overall dropped 0.8%, though not evenly by category. While [[violent crime]] decreased 12.4% during this period, [[property crime]] increased 1.1%. Total property crimes per 100,000 people were lower than the national average in 2008.<ref>{{cite web |title=Crime Report for San Diego, California |url=http://www.homesurfer.com/crimereports/view/crime_report.cfm?state=CA&area=San%20Diego |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615000602/http://www.homesurfer.com/crimereports/view/crime_report.cfm?state=CA&area=San%20Diego |archive-date=June 15, 2011 |access-date=March 23, 2011 }}</ref>

According to [[Uniform Crime Report]] statistics compiled by the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI) in 2010, there were 5,616&nbsp;violent crimes and 30,753&nbsp;property crimes. Of these, the violent crimes consisted of forcible rapes, 73 robberies and 170 aggravated assaults, while 6,387&nbsp;burglaries, 17,977&nbsp;larceny-thefts, 6,389 motor vehicle thefts and 155 acts of arson defined the property offenses.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/tables/table-8/10tbl08ca.xls |title=California – Offenses Known to Law Enforcement by State by City, 2010 |publisher=[[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] |year=2010 |access-date=March 7, 2013}}</ref> In 2013, San Diego had the lowest murder rate of the ten largest cities in the United States.<ref>{{cite news |last=Davis |first= Kristina |date= February 22, 2014 |title= Murder hits near-record low in county |url= http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/feb/22/murder-statistics-county-police-crime-2013/ |newspaper=San Diego Union Tribune |access-date=April 3, 2015 }}</ref>