Charts: Homicides in California’s largest cities; Oakland homicide detectives’ case loads, wages, overtime

THREE CHARTS
   — Homicides in California’s largest cities
   — Homicide Detective case loads
   — Wages and Overtime for Homicide Detectives

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*Homicides in California’s largest cities, ranked by clearance rate**

Cities	Murders in 2006 and 2007	Murders solved in 2006-2007	2006-2007 clearance rate
Oakland	265	108	41%
San Francisco	186	91	49%
Long Beach	83	47	57%
Los Angeles	875	508	58%
Anaheim	27	16	59%
San Diego	127	76	60%
Bakersfield	39	24	62%
Sacramento	101	70	69%
San Jose	62	43	69%
Fresno	104	78	75%
Santa Ana	49	44	90%

*California cities with populations exceeding 300,000. Murder includes non-negligent manslaughter. A murder is considered solved, or cleared, when there’s been an arrest or when a case is solved without an arrest, such as when an offender dies. A murder is counted in the year it happened. A clearance is counted in the year it happened. Oakland’s solved murders are estimated.
Sources: Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, California Department of Justice Criminal Justice Statistics Center, Oakland Police Department, Alameda County District Attorney’s Office.

Homicide Detective Case Loads*

Cases cleared by homicide detectives in California’s 11 cities with populations of more than 300,000. Ranked by new murders per detective.

Police department	Number of investigators 2006-2007	New murders per detective (annual average, 2006-2007)	Cases cleared per detective (annual average, 2006-2007)

Oakland	10	13.3	5.4
San Francisco	17	5.5	2.7
Fresno	12	4.3	3.3
Sacramento	12	4.2	2.9
Long Beach	10	4.2	2.4
San Jose	12	2.6	1.8
San Diego	24	2.6	1.6
Los Angeles	177	2.5	1.4
Anaheim	6	2.3	1.3
Santa Ana	12	2.0	1.8
Bakersfield	did not reply

*Time spent on cold cases varies. Anaheim investigators also work major assaults. Santa Ana investigators also work kidnappings. The number of cases cleared in Oakland is an estimate.
Source: Oakland Police Department, California Department of Justice, Chauncey Bailey Project research

Wages and Overtime for Homicide Detectives

2007 wages for Oakland’s 10 current homicide investigators and their rank among 1,000 Oakland Police Department employees, based on total compensation including overtime:

Oakland Police Department’s homicide investigators had an annual base salary last year of $100,576, before overtime, according to city records. This was in line with a statewide average of about $100,000, according to Dennis Kilcoyne, president of the California Homicide Investigators Association. In San Francisco the base wage was $106,990.


Officer	Salary*	Ranking	Hours of overtime

Trevelyon “Tony” Jones	$267,935	1	2,214
James Rullamas	$246,916	3	1,736
James Morris	$232,751	5	1,569
Richard Andreotti	$229,054	6	1,652
Caesar Basa Jr.	$222,557	9	1,253
Louis Cruz	$207,337	19	1,314
George Phillips	$206,160	20	1,339
Derwin Longmire	$185,304	47	985
Todd Crutchfield	$182,330	52	1,071
Gustavo Galindo*	$136,609	264	385

*Galindo did not work homicide all year.
Source: City of Oakland, Oakland Police Department