Mesa can boast it’s the safest city among municipalities with a similar size population after a roughly 14% drop in 2025 in violent crime, including robberies, forcible rapes and aggravated assault.
Aggravated assaults decreased for the first time in five years.
Although homicides edged up slightly last year, to what was considered “historic norms,” the totals were lower than what was seen in 2020 and 2023, according to the Mesa Police Department…