Boyle Heights, along with the rest of the city, has seen a sharp decline in arrests since 2010.
Last year, Boyle Heights had 1,515 arrests, ranking 8th out of the city’s 114 neighborhoods for most arrests according to data from the Los Angeles Police Department. Downtown L.A., another neighborhood in CD 14, ranked 1st with 8,881.
Those figures are about half of the 3,122 arrests recorded in Boyle Heights in 2010. Numbers have mostly been on a decline in the neighborhood ever since, reaching a low of 1,342 in 2022.
The city has followed a similar trend. In 2010, Los Angeles saw a total of 162,338 arrests. Arrests hit a record low in 2022 with 61,847 reported, a drop of about 57%.
That number has started to rise again, hitting a total of 70,232 in 2024, an increase of about 13%.
Even though numbers remain low compared to pre-pandemic highs, Boyle Heights has seen a small rise in arrests in recent years, reporting about 13% more arrests last year than in 2022.
In 2024, Boyle Heights saw the most arrests during the warmer months, with a high of 146 recorded in September followed by 145 in August and 143 in June.
The average number of arrests in the neighborhood in 2024 was about 126 per month, compared to 260 arrests monthly back in 2010.
So far in 2025, Boyle Heights has seen 103 in both January and February.
Note: A high number of arrests in a neighborhood doesn’t necessarily mean a high level of crime.
