Pismo Beach reports decreases in violent and property crimes

October 7, 2025

By KAREN VELIE

The Pismo Beach Police Department is reporting a decrease in both property and violent crimes during the first half of 2025. Increases were noted in traffic stops and collisions.

In a report to the Pismo Beach City Council regarding crime rates from Jan. 2025 through Aug. 2025, city law enforcement reported a 2% decrease in person crimes, which includes aggravated and simple assaults, kidnappings, murders, rapes, and other sex offenses in comparison to the previous year.

Property crimes, which include arson, auto theft, burglary, embezzlement, forgery, fraud, larceny, robbery, stolen property, and vandalism – fell 18%.

Society crimes, which include drug and narcotics offenses, and prostitution – fell 33%.

The largest increase was observed in non-criminal and traffic reports, which experienced a 41% increase from 2024. Overall, traffic collisions rose from 96 to 115, marking a 20% increase.

 


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The headline should be “Pismo Beach reports decreases in reporting of violent and property crimes”, officilas refuse to acknowledge many crimes go unreported for several reasons, one being people have accepted nothing will happen to the criminals so reporting the crime is a waste of time.


They must be keeping crooks in jail! What a concept!