Every call for service the City publishes, every crime report in its open data since 2006, and the police blotter logged each morning, placed on the block and counted by what people called about, when, where and how the call ended.
The portal holds 402,829 calls from 2022 to 2026-10-09. By calendar year: 2022 102,743, 2023 92,018, 2024 79,383, 2025 73,126, 2026 55,559 (the last year to October 9). Year to date, 2026 is running -4.0% against 2025.
These rows are not the department's full workload. SMPD's annual reports count 128,820 calls in 2024 and 124,848 in 2025, including 51,616 officer-initiated calls in 2024. The portal published 79,383 rows for 2024, within three percent of the public-initiated remainder, and since the City's dispatch system changed in late 2023 the portal carries almost no officer-initiated activity and no coordinates. Every post-2023 row on this site is placed on its block by the City's own address points (median 27 m from the City's point where both exist).
| Category | 2026 to October 9 | 2025 same period | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disturbance and noise | 10,099 | 10,839 | -6.8% |
| Parking and abandoned vehicles | 8,703 | 8,490 | +2.5% |
| Assist, fire and 911 | 4,139 | 3,954 | +4.7% |
| Trespass, loitering and encampments | 4,020 | 4,864 | -17.4% |
| Suspicious activity | 3,032 | 3,668 | -17.3% |
| Alarm | 2,587 | 2,820 | -8.3% |
| Municipal code and public order | 2,488 | 2,743 | -9.3% |
| Traffic and driving | 2,391 | 2,252 | +6.2% |
| Animal | 2,371 | 1,936 | +22.5% |
| Theft | 2,350 | 2,587 | -9.2% |
| Mental health and welfare | 2,161 | 2,049 | +5.5% |
| Traffic collision | 1,952 | 1,989 | -1.9% |
| Assault, battery and weapons | 1,436 | 1,462 | -1.8% |
| Burglary | 757 | 1,070 | -29.3% |
| Lost and found property | 750 | 607 | +23.6% |
| Sexual offenses | 654 | 729 | -10.3% |
| Vandalism and arson | 654 | 1,038 | -37.0% |
| Medical, overdose and death | 597 | 563 | +6.0% |
Disturbances, parking and trespass or encampment calls are the bulk of the public's calls. Property crime calls (theft, burglary, vehicle theft) are 7% of the year-to-date total; calls about assault, battery, weapons, robbery and domestic violence are 3.2%.
The busiest hour of the week is Thu at 09:00 with 774 calls over the year. Calls build from mid-morning, peak in the afternoon and evening, and fall to a quarter of the daytime rate between 03:00 and 06:00.
| Block | Calls, 12 months | Most often |
|---|---|---|
| 300 BLOCK OLYMPIC DR (police station) | 2,086 | Officer-initiated 902; Assist, fire and 911 520; Lost and found property 172 |
| 300 BLOCK SANTA MONICA PIER | 776 | Disturbance and noise 172; Medical, overdose and death 113; Assist, fire and 911 107 |
| 1500 BLOCK PALISADES BEACH RD | 645 | Parking and abandoned vehicles 295; Traffic and driving 87; Suspicious activity 49 |
| 1300 BLOCK 2ND ST | 518 | Parking and abandoned vehicles 203; Disturbance and noise 53; Trespass, loitering and encampments 47 |
| 1300 BLOCK 3RD ST PROM | 510 | Disturbance and noise 176; Theft 110; Alarm 47 |
| 1400 BLOCK OCEAN AVE | 454 | Trespass, loitering and encampments 148; Disturbance and noise 98; Parking and abandoned vehicles 25 |
| 1600 BLOCK OCEAN FRONT WALK | 437 | Disturbance and noise 118; Trespass, loitering and encampments 43; Assist, fire and 911 42 |
| 2000 BLOCK OCEAN AVE | 433 | Disturbance and noise 111; Parking and abandoned vehicles 97; Municipal code and public order 39 |
| 400 BLOCK BROADWAY | 428 | Theft 235; Disturbance and noise 66; Suspicious activity 16 |
| 1400 BLOCK 3RD ST PROM | 419 | Disturbance and noise 98; Alarm 74; Theft 57 |
| 1600 BLOCK SANTA MONICA BLVD | 398 | Disturbance and noise 149; Trespass, loitering and encampments 122; Theft 28 |
| 1500 BLOCK 4TH ST | 369 | Assist, fire and 911 154; Disturbance and noise 52; Trespass, loitering and encampments 48 |
| 1900 BLOCK LINCOLN BLVD | 363 | Theft 122; Disturbance and noise 110; Suspicious activity 24 |
| 1600 BLOCK WILSHIRE BLVD | 326 | Theft 206; Disturbance and noise 48; Trespass, loitering and encampments 13 |
| 500 BLOCK OLYMPIC BLVD WB | 320 | Assist, fire and 911 108; Disturbance and noise 69; Assault, battery and weapons 41 |
| 1600 BLOCK OCEAN AVE | 315 | Municipal code and public order 66; Disturbance and noise 57; Assist, fire and 911 24 |
| 2200 BLOCK VIRGINIA AVE | 314 | Disturbance and noise 73; Municipal code and public order 50; Parking and abandoned vehicles 28 |
| 1700 BLOCK OCEAN AVE | 309 | Parking and abandoned vehicles 80; Disturbance and noise 63; Trespass, loitering and encampments 40 |
| 2500 BLOCK SANTA MONICA BLVD | 307 | Disturbance and noise 125; Theft 71; Assist, fire and 911 24 |
| 1900 BLOCK PICO BLVD | 302 | Disturbance and noise 76; Trespass, loitering and encampments 53; Mental health and welfare 30 |
| 2600 BLOCK MAIN ST | 293 | Disturbance and noise 81; Assist, fire and 911 38; Theft 26 |
| 1400 BLOCK 2ND ST | 289 | Parking and abandoned vehicles 58; Disturbance and noise 52; Municipal code and public order 23 |
| 1500 BLOCK OCEAN AVE | 280 | Disturbance and noise 68; Parking and abandoned vehicles 55; Assist, fire and 911 25 |
| 1400 BLOCK LINCOLN BLVD | 267 | Disturbance and noise 53; Theft 47; Trespass, loitering and encampments 30 |
| 500 BLOCK SANTA MONICA BLVD | 264 | Theft 85; Disturbance and noise 57; Trespass, loitering and encampments 24 |
| Police beat | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beat 1 (downtown, pier, beach) | 48,731 | 40,807 | 29,651 | 26,513 | 21,477 |
| Beat 2 (Ocean Park, Sunset Park) | 14,972 | 13,278 | 12,526 | 10,949 | 8,873 |
| Beat 3 (Mid-City, Pico) | 22,678 | 22,231 | 20,122 | 19,948 | 14,228 |
| Beat 4 (north of Wilshire) | 15,505 | 14,424 | 14,228 | 13,368 | 9,300 |
Beat 1, which covers downtown, the pier and the beach, carries 40% of this year's beat-assigned calls. The 3D map shows every 100-metre cell shaded by its count and coloured by its most common category.
A call is "advised", "gone on arrival" or "checks okay" 53% of the time. A report is taken on 7% of calls and a citation written on 6%. Minutes to clear run from a quarter hour for traffic stops to about two hours for burglaries, fraud and vehicle thefts, where a report is written on scene.
| Year | Part I | Part II |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 3,961 | 3,861 |
| 2007 | 3,711 | 4,160 |
| 2008 | 3,522 | 3,968 |
| 2009 | 3,928 | 3,984 |
| 2010 | 3,707 | 3,601 |
| 2011 | 3,357 | 3,726 |
| 2012 | 3,658 | 4,314 |
| 2013 | 3,713 | 3,937 |
| 2014 | 3,266 | 3,817 |
| 2015 | 4,160 | 3,619 |
| 2016 | 4,377 | 3,524 |
| 2017 | 4,829 | 3,363 |
| 2018 | 5,340 | 3,641 |
| 2019 | 4,459 | 3,826 |
| 2020 | 4,272 | 2,102 |
| 2021 | 4,224 | 1,768 |
| 2022 | 4,390 | 2,186 |
| 2023 | 3,956 | 2,020 |
The open incident file carries 164,424 UCR-coded reports and ends in 2024-05, when the department moved to a new records system. It runs below the department's published Part I totals (4,224 against 4,303 for 2021 and 3,956 against 4,884 for 2023), so the series above is read for its shape, not its level, after 2022. The eight offense types, downtown against the rest of the city, and the hotspot analysis are on the RAND page.
| Year | Part I crimes (SMPD) | Calls for service (SMPD) | Arrests (SMPD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 4,303 | ||
| 2022 | |||
| 2023 | 4,884 | 103,056 | |
| 2024 | 4,793 | 128,820 | 2,804 |
| 2025 | 4,194 | 124,848 | 3,446 |
The department's own annual figures: Part I crime fell 12.5% in 2025 to 4,194 (robbery 142, aggravated assault 329, burglary 593, larceny 2,654, four homicides), calls for service fell 3.1% to 124,848 and arrests rose 22.9% to 3,446. The 2024 report had counted 4,840 Part I crimes for 2024 and 4,917 for 2023; the 2025 report restates 2024 as 4,793 after the records-system change.
SMPD posts a calls-for-service report and an arrest report every day. This site logs both each morning: 2,113 calls and 133 arrests over 10 days so far. The blotter page has each day.
crime/ folder of the site repository. Call categories are closed rules over the dispatch type; a type no rule reads is counted as Other (109 rows this year).