Violent Crime Decreases in Marlboro, Non-Violent Goes Up

Violent crime is down in Marlboro, when compared to March of last year.

The New Jersey State Police Uniform Crime Reporting Unit has taken a significant step forward in reporting crime throughout the state. A link was placed on the public web site that connects users to very recent and comparative crime data for municipalities and counties. Data is compared to the same month of the previous year.

According to the report, violent crime has decreased 29 percent when compared to March of last year while non-violent crime rose 56 percent.

In March of this year, there were 21 cases of larceny and four car thefts. Compared to last year, Marlboro saw six more burglaries this March.

Initially, this information is offered in the form of a PDF document, however, the UCR Unit members are developing an interactive web page format that will allow users to search for specific data.

The new data can be viewed at njsp.org/info/ucr_currentdata.html.