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Oxnard limits liquor licenses to reduce crime
The city of Oxnard is looking at how concentrations of liquor licenses affect crime. Scroll to the bottom of this page to see more explanation about this data. The map originally shows where the licenses are concentrated in four areas.
Clicking on the specific crimes above will show the distribution around the city. Choose a specific location, crime and time frame from the boxes at the right to get pinpoints for those incidents and the liquor licenses within a one-mile radius. That will also bring up a table of all major crimes displayed below the map.
The state uses census tract population data to determine whether a locale has an oversaturation of outlets selling alcohol and looks at the total number of outlets within a 350-foot radius and a 1,000-foot radius.
Both the state and local officials look at the concentration of outlets and crime data.
The crime data only includes a select listing of crimes and not all Part I and Part II crimes. The data also does not look at calls for service, which is another data set used by local authorities to determine the impact alcohol sales may have on a neighborhood.
It must be noted that there is a clustering of incidents at the police station, St. John’s Hospital and a medical clinic in South Oxnard because that is where the reports were taken and not where the crimes occurred.
In addition for some of the data, DUIs for instance, where a suspect was arrested may not be significant. A person could have too much to drink at a club in Ventura for instance but get pulled over in Oxnard. That arrest would then have nothing to do with the license holders around where the arrest occurred.
Source: Crime data is from the Oxnard Police Department. The liquor license data is from the California Department of Alcohol Beverage Control.
