Crime in Antioch Stabilizing to 5-year Averages

After a spike in crime in 2024, early crime data for 2025 shows a major reduction in crime within the city of Antioch and is returning to the 5-year average.

According to the Antioch Police Department, they released crime data for the first half of 2025 when compared to 2024 which showed the following:

• Homicide: Down 71%
• Robbery: Down 44%
• Burglary: Down 41%
• Theft: Down 38%
• Auto Theft: Down 35%

This comes as 2024 Antioch crime data shows record homicide and vehicle thefts. Antioch data going back to 2005, the city of Antioch had a two decade high in murders at 16 where the previous highs of 12 occurred in 2013 and 2021. In 2023, they had 10 murders. They saw a record high in motor vehicle theft in 2024 with a total of 1,683 which was 438 more than in 2023.

While crime is down compared to 2024, it actually is coming closer to the 5 year average for the first half of the year.

January – June ONLY

Staffing Levels

At its July 7 Antioch Police Oversight Commission meeting, staffing levels for the police department were at 89 officers, 3 on long-term injury leave, 1 on military leave, 1 on administrative leave for pending personnel matter. It was also stated that 10 officers were in field training program. 2 recruits in ALCO police academy set to graduate in September. Meanwhile, 2 were in the CoCo police academy set to graduate in October while 1 is in another ALCO police academy set to graduate at end of year.

Here is a rundown on number of officers since 2019 (this fluctuates throughout the year and is fluid)

• Dec. 17, 2019 – 112 officers
• May 6, 2020 – 115 officers (fully staffed)
• Nov. 2020 – Mayor Lamar Hernandez-Thorpe, Tamisha Torres-Walker and Monica Wilson make up council majority, begin implementing police reforms
• Aug. 29, 2022 – 101 officers (72 full duty, 38 on patrol)
• Sept. 2022 – Antioch approves $30k bonus program for officers
• Oct 11, 2022 – 102 officers (note – just 76 full duty)
• March 2023 – Antioch Text Messaging scandal broke out, council did not wait for investigation to be completed before attacking APD. (officers charged in August)
  
• Sept. 25, 2023 – 95 officers (44 active, 31 on patrol)
• Feb. 2,2024 – 95 officers (44 active, 31 on patrol)
• March 8, 2024 – 85 officers (55 active sworn, 38 on patrol)
• July 1, 2024 – 76 officers (59 active, 44 on patrol)
• Feb 3, 2025 – 80 officers
• July 7, 2025 – 89 officers
• The goal was stated during recent budget session talks the goal is to get the police department to 100 officers by the end of 2025.

Underreporting of Crime

It is unclear just how much of an impact underreporting of crime is having on the crime data — not reporting an incident. With a reduce number of officers and a push towards online reporting, its not known what crimes are not being reported by residents in 2025. Several residents have complained in recent months of officers not responding and many have stated they simply have not filed a report because “nothing would happen”.

Crime Data not updated online:

While the Antioch Police Department released the data on social media last week, their crime data for June has not yet been posted online as of Monday morning. Here is a look at crime statistics year to date.