(The Center Square) — The Bossier City Police Department and Bossier Parish Sheriff’s office show similar decade trends according to the FBI: Violent crime is up and property crime is down.
The differences from 2014 to now are slight however, and because both departments have similar trends numbers for the Bossier City Police Department will be utilized since it has a larger sample size.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Reporting database has tracked offense numbers based on what’s reported by law enforcement agencies across the country.
In November 2014, violent crime in Bossier City hit its lowest offense number in a month at 128. After that the average continued to be between 150 and 225 until the violent crimes reported dipped under 150 for the second and last time in February 2017.
From that point, reports started to spike. The average month stayed constant, but as the peaks steadily increased, they became a lot more common than dips until July of 2020 when the offense count finally went above 250. It happened several times again hitting its highest mark in July 2020 at 300.