Police Reports
The Upper Monroe neighborhood is in the Goodman Section of the Rochester Police Department and within patrol beat #255 along with portions of East/Park Avenue, Swillburg and Cobbs Hill neighborhoods.
The Goodman Section PCIC for Sector 6/7 (Upper Monroe area) is held the second Wednesday of each month at 5:30 p.m. by Zoom. Please contact the SE-NSC office at 428-7640 to get the Zoom link.
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Crime Database Tools
The Rochester Police Department uploads crime data on an ongoing, nearly real-time, basis. The information is publicly accessible and searchable. Certain information may be downloaded and saved. NOTE: Not all information about every incident is accessible by the public due to privacy issues as well as relevant laws & regulations.
General Offense Reports extracted from the Rochester Police Department’s Law Enforcement Records Management System (LERMS). The data is grouped into the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Part I Crime classifications, with the exception of Rape, which has been excluded in accordance with privacy regulations.
A look at crime numbers over similar periods from 2018-2025
Sometimes we get curious about a topic. Today is one of those days. We wondered if crime was lower or higher this spring compared to last spring. What about the past few years over the same period. How do those years compare with the years just before the COVID pandemic? And down the rabbit hole we went...
The first eight maps below cover the following categories: Murder, Robbery, Aggravated Assault, Burglary, Larceny (petit & grand), and Motor Vehicle Theft. (Definitions and limitations of the maps may be found above as well as on the Rochester Crime Map.)
NOTE: Property and vehicle related vandalism and traffic incidents are not available in publicly accessible databases or listed on the Rochester Crime Map.
Breaking out violent crimes: Murder, Manslaughter & Assault
Once we pulled the together the data above we got curious about violent crimes as a subset. So, we isolated violent crimes. Well, violent crimes are uncommon in Upper Monroe. So, the maps below look at a longer period of time (January 1st through June 18th) in each of the eight years we researched.
Looking back on 2024...
Each of the maps shown below illustrates one of four crime categories: homicides, car thefts, property crimes and violent crimes. The maps reflect calculations based on RPD patrol areas also know as "beats". Crime doesn't stop or start based on police beats, of course. To some extent these sorts of maps lump lower crime areas with a given patrol beat with areas experiencing higher incidents of crime in the same beat. As result, beats tend to artificially exaggerate the differences between nearby areas that may not be that different at all if you were to redraw the lines. Never the less, they do give a sense of where certain categories of crimes tended to take place in 2024.
ARTICLE: "On crime, Rochester turned the tide in 2024" as published in the Rochester Beacon on Janary 9, 2025. The article was written by JACOB SCHERMERHORN. The maps below were published as part of this article.
As you can see in the map illustrations of crime statistics from 2024 "Beat #255" (including the Upper Monroe area) experienced relatively high rates of property crimes and motor vehicle thefts, but very low levels of violent crimes and homicides.
When you look at these maps remember the Upper Monroe neighborhood is lumped in with the larger "Beat #255" area. (See the detailed Beat Map #255 above.) Beat #255 includes a section of Swillburg to our west and sections of both Park Avenue and East Avenue to our north and east as well as all of Cobbs Hill Park and the Cobbs Hill neighborhood to our east; quite a large area.
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