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Page 2 of 10 <br />remained high throughout the region. <br /> <br />The department's addition of a crime and intelligence analyst has enabled staff to use more <br />intelligence-led strategies to address crime spikes and respond proactively. Some of those <br />strategies include placing marked vehicles in areas of increased crime, deploying officers in <br />high-crime and collision areas, and sharing real-time information with regional law enforcement <br />partners and police department staff. <br /> <br />Table 1 below illustrates crime trends in Pleasanton for the past four years. <br /> <br />Table 1 <br /> <br />Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) v. California Incident-Based Reporting System (CIBRS) <br />As a reminder, the police department transitioned from the Uniform Crime Reporting System to <br />the California Incident-Based Reporting System as required by the FBI. In December 2024, <br />Pleasanton transitioned to a new Computer Aided Dispatch and Records Management System <br />and with it, CIBRS data collection and reporting. The key difference between CIBRS and UCR <br />is the elimination of the hierarchy rule and single incident reporting. Under the UCR hierarchy <br />rule, only the single most serious offense was reported, regardless of whether other offenses <br />occurred during the same incident. CIBRS will collect up to 10 of the reportable offenses when <br />they occur at the same incident, which is effectively a more accurate way of reporting crime. In <br />addition, using UCR single incident reporting, only one crime is reported for each incident <br />regardless of the number of victims. Using CIBRS, a separate crime is reported for each <br />victim. Effectively, CIBRS incident reporting is more detailed and accurate as compared to the <br />traditional UCR standards, which can lead to post CIBRS misinterpretation of crime data as an <br />increase in crime rather than a by-product of changes in data reporting rules. <br /> <br />Police Activity and Response Times <br />The police department facilitated 58,492 incidents in 2024, of which 22,014 were self-initiated <br />and 36,478 were requests for service. 2024 saw an increase in officer-initiated activity and a <br />small decrease in requests for service. See Table 2 below. <br /> <br /> <br />Page 177 of 226