2025 Part One Crime Decreases by 5% Overall with Homicides Seeing Lowest Rate since 2019
The Pueblo Police Department has released the annual crime statistics for 2025, with an emphasis on Part One Crime, which includes aggravated assault, arson, auto theft, burglary, homicide, robbery, sexual assault and theft/larceny. Overall, Part One crime fell by 5% comparing 2024 to 2025 incidents. The data highlights a significant decrease in homicides from 20 in 2024 to 13 in 2025, with an overall decrease of 35%. This is the lowest homicide rate for Pueblo since 2019.
“While the data shows a decline on overall crime, the Pueblo Police Department remains committed to enhancing community safety and tackling violent crime, “We are never satisfied with crime taking place in Pueblo,” said Pueblo Police Department Chief Chris Noeller stated. “I am very proud of the incredible hard work the men and women of the Pueblo Police Department, both sworn and civilian, conducted which brought about the decrease in crime in 2025, despite our manpower constraints. I also acknowledge how the Real-Time Crime Center and our increased technology has allowed us to be more proactive and act more swiftly in our response.”
Arson saw a 7% decrease of 54 reported in 2024 compared to 50 reported in 2025. Auto theft decreased by 13%, sexual assault decreased by 28%, theft and larceny decreased by 2%.
Not all areas of Part One Crime statistics decreased, the city saw an increase in aggravated assault of 4% overall with 827 reported in 2024 compared to 857 reported in 2025. This was on the only area of Part One incident crime that saw an increase. Burglaries reflected no change with a 0% increase or decrease.
Robbery was another area of Part One incident crime which saw a significant decrease. Robbery decreased by 32% with 238 reported in 2024 compared to 161 reported in 2025.
The Pueblo Police Department continues to implement new strategies to address crime in Pueblo. These strategies include the Real-Time Crime Center (RTCC), ShotSpotter technology expansion, the Drones as First Responders (DFR) program, License Plate Readers (LPRs) and the launch of the Community Connect Program with businesses integrating their cameras with the RTCC.
Other proactive police work increased such as loitering citations which increased by 22%, loitering by minors after curfew which increase by 8% and curfew in the parks citations increased by 135%.
“We’re committed to using our data-driven approach to increase community policing efforts and collaboration,” said Chief Noeller.
In 2025, the Pueblo Police Department continued to utilize the Directed Investigation and Community Engagement (DICE) Unit to help combat lower-level crime such as loitering, trespass, suspicious persons and theft from merchant. This unit specifically conducts proactive policing which addresses individuals with PR bonds, municipal warrant arrests and issues citations. The Beat Auto Theft Through Law Enforcement (B.A.T.T.L.E.) unit is a collaborative inter-agency unit in Southern Colorado which recovers stolen vehicles, arrests offenders and works to deter future stolen vehicle crimes.
The Impact Unit, a proactive policing unit was established in 2024 to disrupt criminal activity. They collaborate with other Special Investigations Division (SID), Gang and Narcotics Units and conduct large investigations. In March 2025, the Impact Unit shifted to a focus on non-fatal shootings and data from 2025 reported the team investigated 36 different cases and made arrests in 21 of those cases.
The Community Service Officers (CSOs) also played an integral role in addressing crime, where these civilian officers manage various incidents where suspects are not present. This includes burglaries, motor vehicle thefts, criminal mischief, fraud, missing persons and traffic hazards.
“Our dispatchers, patrol officers, specialized units, Real-Time Crime Center technicians and personnel continually work to decrease crime in our community,” said Chief Noeller. “These units throughout the Pueblo Police Department use our CompStat data to adjust our approach and we will continue to do so in 2026 so we can continue to decrease crime like we saw in 2025,” said Chief Noeller. ###