March 10, 2026 Safety & Security Committee - Mar 10, 2026

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What is the agenda and who is presenting the 2025 crime data report?

Rodney L. Lusk 0:01

Good afternoon, everyone. We're going to start our safety and security meeting for today, March 10th. We have two items on the agenda. And the first item will be led by Chief Davis. It will be his 2025 crime data report. So looking forward to hearing that. And then following that discussion, we will then move into a discussion on our Fairfax County Police Department radio encryption And that will also be led by Chief Davis and a couple of his other colleagues. So with that, let me turn to Chief Davis for his presentation on the crime data for 2025. Thank you.

Kevin Davis 0:48

Good afternoon, Chairman McCade, Chairman Lusk, Vice Chair Smith and Board of Supervisors, County Executive Brian Hill and Deputy County Executive Tom Arnold. I'm Kevin Davis. I'm the police chief for the Fairfax County Police Department. I'm joined by Assistant Chief Brooke Wright, Chief Wright, Lords over all criminal investigations on the police department and does a fantastic job So I'm gonna do my best to make a presentation and pay attention to these slides So this first slide speaks for itself we had a A good year. There's always more work to be done with the crime fight and reducing the number of victims in our community. But in terms of reductions for the crimes that hit our community and impact our community the most, we had 13 homicides in 2025.

Kevin Davis 1:38

That number was a 7 percent reduction from the year before. But that number, 13, we haven't seen 13 or a number that low since 2018 and 2015. So pre-COVID years, of the 13 homicides that impacted our community in 2025, five of the 13 were domestic related. Six were acquaintances. So these are folks who are known to each other. Five of the 13 were indoors. And we're always proud to say this. I know the Board of Supervisors is proud to repeat it, a 100% case closure rate with the homicide investigations, just like we did the year before. When you move to almost homicides, I call them the non-fatal contact shootings. And thank God for the trauma system in Fairfax County and the hospitals who treat these victims and these patients.

Kevin Davis 2:36

We had a 37% reduction in non-fatal shootings throughout the county. Carjackings is something that we pay attention to always. We had 12 and 20 and 2025, and that's a 48% reduction from the year before. And as you know, that crime regionally exists in much greater volume, not too far away. So we're always paying attention to trends and patterns. Our aggravated assaults are really the only crime category that's up. Why were aggravated assaults up in 2025? There's a couple thoughts that we have based on data. Strangulation crimes are more prevalent now, thanks to statewide legislation that makes strangulation a felony. So I think our police officers, our detectives are paying attention to the elements of strangulation and classifying it as such.

Kevin Davis 3:34

And that makes it an automatic aggravated assault. And that's probably a good thing that we're paying attention in that way. We also saw a trend in 2025 where our assaults against police officers throughout all of our district stations were up in 2025 as well. So that's something we're paying attention to. Sex offenses were down 11% robberies and by robberies. I mean robberies of persons robberies of establishments Stores etc. Those were down 19% stolen cars down 10% That's a a lot of these crime reductions are part of a regional national trend but to have a reduction of 10% on top of reductions the last couple years is It's something we're proud of. The Hyundai Elantra remains the number one stolen car, not only here, but elsewhere.

Kevin Davis 4:28

And the two most likely ways cars are stolen in Fairfax County and regionally are popped ignitions in Hyundais and other cars and keys left inside the vehicle, not necessarily in the ignition, but in the vehicle. So that's an education. Endeavor that's always ongoing burglaries of homes and burglaries of stores were down 27% That's a big number and this is a good trend the next one shoplifting is down 11% across the country but more particularly at Tyson's the footprint that is everything we think about Tyson's down 25% in 25 versus 2024 I'll go to the next slide