Robbery reports in Los Angeles vs Chicago
Los Angeles police open data in this index include 11,338 incidents coded as Robbery. Chicago Police Department records include 10,984 incidents with the same primary-type label. Combined they are 22,322 robbery-coded rows. Los Angeles holds about 50.8% of the pair; Chicago holds about 49.2%. The gap is 354 reports. The two harvests sit almost even — still not a finding that either city is safer.
Key figures
- Los Angeles has 11,338 robbery-coded reports; Chicago has 10,984.
- The paired total is 22,322 (about 50.8% / 49.2%); the gap is 354 rows.
- A near-even split is not a safety ranking.
- LAPD and CPD robbery coding are separate systems.
- Both figures are incident reports, not convictions.
LAPD and CPD robbery totals on one page
The relationship is primary type Robbery in Los Angeles (11,338) next to the same label in Chicago (10,984). Both departments treat robbery as taking by force or fear, usually from a person. Both keep it off the burglary table. California Penal Code and Illinois/IUCR still differ on attempts, commercial versus street events, and whether an incident is filed as assault plus theft. This page reports the labels as filed.
A 50.8% / 49.2% split of 22,322 paired rows is a file comparison. It is not a shared definition and not a rate. Population is not a packet fact, so none is used.
Los Angeles’s 11,338 robbery incidents
The Los Angeles total is 11,338. LAPD robbery rows are typically person-directed. Attempted robbery may sit inside this type or in a related code. This packet has one total, so no attempt share is quoted. Block-range locations do not name victims.
See robbery in Los Angeles and the Los Angeles crime hub. LocalCrimeVault does not recode LAPD rows into IUCR.
Eleven thousand three hundred thirty-eight Los Angeles rows and 10,984 Chicago rows are harvest counts, not rates. This packet has no population figure, so none is used. Keep LAPD and CPD named in the same footnote.
Chicago’s 10,984 robbery incidents
The Chicago total is 10,984. IUCR robbery is force or threat against a person. Armed versus unarmed splits may exist on IUCR codes; they are not in these facts. Official community area names are Chicago’s 77 areas; this join has no area table.
See robbery in Chicago and the Chicago crime hub for neighboring types such as burglary and battery.
354 rows is noise-scale for this pair
Los Angeles’s 11,338 is 354 above Chicago’s 10,984, about 3.2% more inside the pair. Gaps of a few hundred rows can come from a short harvest difference, a coding memo, or how attempts are grouped. This page does not treat 354 as a crime wave in one city or a success story in the other.
Do not rank Los Angeles and Chicago on robbery from these two numbers. Correlation is not causation. Police-report coding differs.
Incident reports, not court files
Neither 11,338 nor 10,984 is a conviction count. Arrest flags are not verdicts. All crime ties lists other comparisons. Keep LAPD and CPD named when you quote both figures.
If a charging document later uses a different statute, the public incident row may not change. Cite the municipal portals as the sources.
What the Los Angeles–Chicago robbery join leaves out
The 354-row gap (11,338 versus 10,984) is about 3.2% of Los Angeles’s harvest inside this pair. On two files that large, a few hundred rows is inside ordinary coding noise. This page does not treat 354 as a trend, a policy result, or a safety ranking. Attempted robbery, carjacking-as-robbery, and commercial robbery may sit inside or beside this primary type depending on the agency. None of those cuts is a packet fact.
Combined the pair is 22,322 rows (Los Angeles about 50.8%, Chicago about 49.2%). Those shares answer only which harvest has more robbery-coded rows. They do not answer which residents face more risk. Population and housing stock are not in the packet, so no rate is computed.
Cite LAPD for 11,338 and Chicago Police Department for 10,984. Keep robbery off the burglary table. Unfounded reports may remain until the source updates. LocalCrimeVault does not recode either feed. Use robbery in Los Angeles, robbery in Chicago, the two city hubs, and all crime ties.
IUCR armed-versus-strong-arm codes and LAPD weapon fields are not packet facts. Publishing an armed-robbery share would invent a number. The 22,322-row pair (11,338 and 10,984) is two agency harvests. Keep LAPD and CPD named. LocalCrimeVault does not convert arrest flags into convictions and does not rank Los Angeles against Chicago.
Questions
- How many robbery reports in Los Angeles vs Chicago?
- This index includes 11,338 Los Angeles robbery-coded incidents and 10,984 Chicago incidents. Combined they are 22,322 rows. Los Angeles is about 50.8% of the pair; Chicago is about 49.2%. These are police reports, not convictions.
- Which city has more robbery, Los Angeles or Chicago?
- Los Angeles has 11,338 rows and Chicago has 10,984, a gap of 354. This page does not rank cities as safer or worse. Near-even harvest counts are not a risk score.
- Do LAPD and CPD define robbery the same way?
- Both use a Robbery primary type for taking by force or threat. Statute text, attempt rules, and related assault or theft filings still differ. Read 11,338 and 10,984 as two agency totals.
- Are these robbery figures from courts?
- No. They come from municipal open-data police reports. An arrest is not a conviction. LocalCrimeVault does not convert reports into court outcomes.
Municipal open-data police reports (not convictions). City feeds differ in coverage and coding — counts are not a safety ranking.