Downtown, the heart of Scottsdale, may be a little safer to the start the year than the previous two, depending on which data you look at.
Calls for serious crimes, known as Group A crimes, in the downtown are down for the first quarter of the year when compared to the same period in 2024 and 2023, according to a report from the Scottsdale Police Department.
Calls for Group A crimes, which include things like assaults, robberies and forcible sex offenses, from downtown were down to 663 for January, February and March of this year. That compares to 857 calls in 2024 and 842 in 2023.
