2025 Public Safety Highlights

Violent Crime Highlights

• Violent crime rose steadily from 2020 through 2024, but in 2025 we saw a meaningful reduction of approximately 14 percent.
• Robberies continued a long-term downward trend, decreasing for the fifth consecutive year and dropping more than 34 percent since 2020.
• Aggravated assaults declined for the first time in five years, including both domestic violence and non-domestic violence incidents.
• Reported sexual assaults and rapes dropped significantly, continuing a multi-year decrease.
• While homicide victims increased slightly in 2025, totals remain lower than the levels seen between 2020 and 2023.

This progress reflects sustained enforcement, prevention, and community partnership efforts that will continue into 2026.

Calls for Service

• Overall calls for service increased about 5.3 percent.
• Dispatched calls continued to decline, marking a multi-year reduction.
• Officer initiated on view activity increased significantly, highlighting proactive policing rather than reactive response.
• Calls involving shots fired, armed robbery, and subjects with guns all decreased.
• Juvenile disturbance calls increased, pointing to areas where community and prevention efforts remain critical.

Overall, the data shows higher levels of proactive, officer-initiated activity alongside improved response patterns.

Motor Vehicle Crimes Highlights

• Stolen vehicles dropped to their lowest level since 2020, including a significant decline since the peak in 2023.
• Vehicle burglaries continued a steady multi-year decrease, down more than 50 percent since 2021.
• Theft of motor vehicle parts also dropped sharply and remains on a strong downward trend.
• The department continues to monitor an emerging increase in thefts involving electric bikes, scooters, and similar devices.

Focused enforcement and public awareness efforts continue to adapt as crime patterns change.

Traffic Accidents and Citations Highlights

• Traffic accidents increased citywide in 2025, particularly in areas experiencing rapid population growth.
• Traffic related fatalities also increased, reminding us that roadway safety remains a shared responsibility.
• Traffic enforcement rose significantly, including both citations and warnings.
• Increased warnings show an emphasis on education and behavior change, not just enforcement.
• Enforcement efforts are focused on reducing serious injury and saving lives.

Roadway safety efforts remain focused on accountability, awareness, and preventing serious injury.

Proactive Patrol and Community Engagement Highlights

• Mission directed patrol and community engagement more than doubled in 2025, reflecting a proactive policing strategy.
• Targeted investigations led to identified human trafficking cases, exposing crimes that often go unseen.
• Vandalism and criminal damage continued a long-term decline.
• DUI arrests increased, showing an emphasis on impaired driving prevention.
• Weapon violation and prohibited possessor arrests rose, while dispatched weapon calls decreased, indicating effective proactive enforcement.

Proactive engagement remains central to prevention, accountability, and community trust.

Disclaimer
Crime and call figures reflect Mesa Police Department data available at the time of reporting and are subject to revision as reports are finalized.