Impacts of California Proposition 47 on crime in Santa Monica, California
Fig 12
Reported crime near Expo Line light rail stations in Santa Monica, CA, during three successive time periods spanning 2006–2019.
These normalized histograms (bars) and densities (curves) provide monthly reported crime counts in a 450 meter radius around locations at which new stations opened in 2016. The time periods are: (1) January, 2006—October, 2014, before implementation of Prop. 47; (2) November, 2014—May, 2016, between the implementation of Prop. 47 and the opening of the Expo Line; and (3) June, 2016—December, 2019, after the opening of the Expo Line. For each location, the left plot incorporates periods (1) and (2), and the right plot incorporates periods (2) and (3). Changes to the mean are not statistically significant prior to opening of the Expo Line (left plots) except for the Downtown station. After opening of the Expo Line (right plots), crimes increased significantly at the Downtown and 17th Street/Santa Monica College stations. See Table 4.