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The violent crime in the first three months of the year has dropped in Durham compared to the same period in 2024.

The city defines violent crimes as murders, rapes, robberies and tightened attacks. In the first three months of the year, Durham had 349 violent crimes compared to 451 in 2024 in 2025.

Patrice Andrews, police chief of Durham, presented the results on Thursday in front of the city council.

“Immediately what you notice is that we saw a general reduction in our vocal times of violent crimes,” said Andrews.

However, the number of murders in the first three months of 2025 rose compared to the first three months of last year.

Here is a look at the data from the past three years:

Violent crime	3-year average	2023	2024	2025	2024-25 % change
killing	9	13	6	9	+50.0%
Rape	41	50	40	34	-15.0%
Robbery	107	100	118	103	-12.7%
Severe attack	254	272	287	203	-29.3%
Total violent crime	412	435	451	349	-22.6%

Durham police response times

In the first quarter of 2025, the Durham police needed an average of seven minutes and 12 seconds to react to an emergency call. The goal of the Durham police department is five minutes and 48 seconds.

“We really creep in our response times and we have simply not reached our goal in several years,” said Andrews.

Here is a look at the average response time for emergency calls after year.

2024: 7 minutes

2023: 6 minutes and 29 seconds

2022: 6 minutes and 33 seconds

2021: 6 minutes and 14 seconds

2020: 5 minutes and 45 seconds

2019: 6 minutes and 1 second

2018: 6 minutes and 5 seconds

2017: 6 minutes and 12 seconds

2016: 6 minutes and 20 seconds

“We have made numerous efforts to distract the calls to the lower priority for the service of our front officers. We are therefore very satisfied with the rate of people who do reports [Police to Citizen]This is our web -based system of submitting reports, ”said Andrews.

The Durham police reacted to 43.8% of the calls in less than five minutes. His goal is to react to 57% of emergency calls in less than five minutes.

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Durham staff

From Thursday, Andrews said that the Durham police had filled 388 positions of 533 jury (72.8% personnel).

Andrews said the Durham police were sworn in about 71% of personnel officials a year ago.

At the end of March, the department had 128 non-fluctuating employees from 146 available positions (87.7% staff).

“We see larger academies,” said Andrews. “We see fewer people go.”

Andrews said fewer officials left Durham's police department for other law enforcement authorities. On Thursday, she also quoted several recruitment initiatives to help with the HR department.

Durham rotating incidents

On Thursday in front of the city council of Durham, Andrews also presented data on shooting incidents in the first three months.

Shooting incidents

2024: 147

2025: 130

People shot

2024: 40

2025: 31

Fatal

2024: 5

2025: 5

Non -fatal

2024: 35

2025: 26

Durham real estate crime decline compared to 2024

Property crime	3-year average	2023	2024	2025	2024-25 % change
Burglary	302	316	315	275	-12.7%
theft	1.811	1,700	1,904	1.828	-4.0%
Motor'sft vehicle	378	297	455	382	-16.0%
Overall ownership crime	2.491	2.313	2.674	2.485	-7.1%

Andrews said that the authorities had returned around 314 of the 382 stolen vehicles in the first three months of 2025.

“In this order, Hyundais, Kias and Toyotas are what we see as the higher incidents of vehicles that are stolen,” said Andrews.

Andrews The stolen cars are not unique crimes.

“What we see are rings of networks of thieves who come in and work as a group,” said Andrews.

Andrews said the thieves often broke into cars and use them to commit other crimes.

On Thursday, Andrews also showed that Durham had stolen weapons in the first three months of the year.

“It was over our trajectory of the past few years,” said Andrews.

Here is a look at the sums after year:

2024: 568 weapons stolen

2023: 441 weapons stolen

Andrews said that 73% of the 127 weapons that were stolen in the first three months of 2025 were taken out of a car.

Young crimes for January – March

Andrews did not talk about young crimes in front of the city council on Thursday.

However, city documents show a breakdown of the types of crimes committed by young people in the first three months of 2025.

Criminal offense/age	12	13	14	15	16	17	In total
Severe attack				1
All other crimes	1	2	10	25	5	10	53
Burglary			2		1	2	5
Drive during impairment					1		1
Drug injuries						2	2
embezzlement						1	1
Fraud			7	16	6	3	32
killing			2
theft	1		11	27	7	8	54
Robbery				1	1		2
Simple attack				1	3	3	7
Stolen property	1	4	5	2	3	9	24
vandalism			3	7		4	14
Gun injuries			1	1	3	4	9
total	3	6	41	81	30	46	207