Shoplifting - Petty Theft ($950 & Under) reports in Los Angeles

What 20,032 Shoplifting - Petty Theft ($950 & Under) reports measure

20,032 rows are retail-theft reports under Shoplifting - Petty Theft ($950 & Under), the petty (at or under the dollar threshold in the label) slice as LAPD printed it. The count is reports, not recovered merchandise and not unique stores.

Other theft labels without a shoplifting string are outside 20,032. Dollar thresholds in the category name are LAPD's coding, not a recode by this site. The official published label is "Shoplifting - Petty Theft ($950 & Under)." LocalCrimeVault does not rewrite that string. The 20,032 figure is a count of incident records, not unique people, not recovered property, and not hospital cases.

How LAPD type labels work on this feed

Every row on the Los Angeles open-data incident extract carries a type field drawn from LAPD crime-code / MO category as published. LocalCrimeVault displays that field as the agency published it. If a report was written as Shoplifting - Petty Theft ($950 & Under), it stays under that string here even when a reader might use a shorter everyday name. This page does not split the 20,032 rows into subtypes the packet does not contain.

A primary type is not a criminal conviction and is not a UCR hierarchy rule applied after the fact. A single field event can involve more than one offense in the field; the public extract typically exposes one published type per row. Readers comparing Los Angeles to another city should match definitions: other agencies may file similar events under different statute names that never appear in this list.

Shoplifting - Petty Theft ($950 & Under) as a share of Los Angeles reports

Relative to 400,500 Los Angeles incidents in this extract, 20,032 reports coded Shoplifting - Petty Theft ($950 & Under) are about 5.0 percent of the city file. That share is a statement about how LAPD labeled the public feed, not a statement about which events matter more to a community. High-volume types dominate tables; rarer types can still be the events residents ask about first.

Keep the denominator in view: 5.0 percent of the indexed city total is not 5.0 percent of all harm in Los Angeles, and it is not a crime rate. Rates need a population or exposure denominator that this packet does not include.

Reports, not convictions

A Shoplifting - Petty Theft ($950 & Under) row means a report was taken and coded. It does not mean a prosecutor filed a charge, a judge entered a finding, or a person was identified. Treating 20,032 as a conviction tally would overstate legal outcomes and understate how much volume in a big-city feed never reaches court. The respectful use of this page is statistical: how large is this label relative to the 400,500 Los Angeles incidents in the index.

Los Angeles Police Department publishes the underlying incidents through LA Open Data. LocalCrimeVault indexes that feed. If the agency later updates a record, the public count can move. This page describes the extract as harvested, not a forecast and not a neighborhood safety score.

How to read the Shoplifting - Petty Theft ($950 & Under) table

The type hub lists the 20,032 rows with the fields LAPD shares publicly: date, coarse location, and related attributes. Block ranges are intentionally coarse. They are not street-number addresses, and they are not proof that a named business or resident was involved. Sort and filter the table; do not treat the headline as a story.

Nothing in the 20,032 count tells you clearance, restitution, or whether property was recovered. Those outcomes are outside this extract. If a filter reduces the table, you have left the headline on purpose.

Where to go next in the Los Angeles data

Use the Los Angeles type hub for the live table of these 20,032 rows. The city-wide Los Angeles hub places this label beside the rest of the published mix so the 5.0 percent share is visible in context. A cross-city view of the same type slug exists for readers who need the label outside Los Angeles; definitions still follow each agency's feed, not a recode by LocalCrimeVault.

If you are documenting a method, record the extract and the 20,032 / 400,500 pair. Open-data crime files are living tables. A later harvest can add late-submitted reports or drop rows the agency has sealed or corrected, which is expected for a public incident feed rather than a frozen annual report.

Questions

How many Shoplifting - Petty Theft ($950 & Under) reports are in the Los Angeles index?

This extract includes 20,032 Los Angeles incidents coded Shoplifting - Petty Theft ($950 & Under). That is about 5.0 percent of 400,500 city incidents indexed on LocalCrimeVault. The figure counts police reports from LA Open Data, not convictions, arrests, or unique offenders. LAPD assigned the type; LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify charges.

Is Shoplifting - Petty Theft ($950 & Under) the same as other property or person categories?

No. This page covers only rows whose published type is Shoplifting - Petty Theft ($950 & Under) (20,032 reports). Other labels on the Los Angeles feed are separate. Mixing categories would inflate totals and blur what each LAPD string records. Use the city hub if you need the mix of all types against 400,500 reports.

Does a Shoplifting - Petty Theft ($950 & Under) incident mean someone was convicted?

No. Public incident rows are reports. They can remain in the open-data feed if no arrest was made, if charges were declined, or if the case was later unfounded and not yet removed. The 20,032 count should be read as report volume. Court records live outside this narrative.

Where does LocalCrimeVault get Los Angeles Shoplifting - Petty Theft ($950 & Under) counts?

Counts come from Los Angeles Police Department incidents published on LA Open Data and indexed here. Offense types are LAPD crime-code / MO category as published. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify charges. Compare the type table with the Los Angeles hub if you need this label next to the other 400,500 city reports.