Camarillo police say 2024 crime totals rose under new NIBRS reporting; catalytic-converter thefts drop sharply

Camarillo police presented a new-format crime report to the Camarillo City Council, saying that the city’s move to the National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) in 2024 changed how crimes are counted and produced a higher overall total for the year.

Commander Tennyson, presenting the statistics, told the council the new system “significantly changes how we report crime,” and that NIBRS records every offense that occurs in a single incident rather than only the single highest-level offense. That change, he said, produced a 2024 total of 2,852 reported crimes for Camarillo when the department submitted its data to federal databases.

Why it matters: under the old Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) system, only the most serious offense in an incident was tallied; under NIBRS, a single incident can produce multiple reportable crimes. Commander Tennyson said the new method “is much more detailed and gives us a more detailed view to make data driven decisions.”

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