State statistics show overall crime in the city was up 1.1 percent.
Police say that number is low.
More people were victims of car thefts and rapes in Riverside last year than in 1999, statistics show, and police say they are especially concerned about the increase in those crimes. Motor-vehicle thefts rose slightly more than 15 percent and rapes rose nearly 8 percent from the previous year, according to statistics released by state Attorney General Bill Lockyer this week. Everything to me signifies we need to get involved. You've got to jump in and look at the area of increase and do some selective enforcement on that particular crime and category. You've got be in tune in your own community to things that cause crime to fluctuate.