Eugene Police 2025 Data: Property Crime Falls, Trespass and Drug Enforcement Surge

Eugene Police presented revised incident data for calendar year 2025 showing a split picture: burglaries fell more than 31% even as criminal trespass enforcement and drug law cases surged. Chief Chris Skinner led a press briefing on Feb. 19, 2026 to walk through the numbers and described the overall pattern as “Mostly good numbers, mostly a good story, I would hope to believe, for our community. A couple of areas for improvement, certainly, and things that we're going to pay attention to.”

EPD reported that public calls for service declined substantially in 2025, with about 6,000 fewer calls than 2024 and levels at their lowest since 2018. At the same time, officers increased self-initiated activity by nearly 11% and arrests or citations enacted by the department rose 36% year-over-year, reflecting a shift toward more proactive policing and enforcement.

Property crime trends skewed downward in several categories across downtown Eugene and citywide. EPD’s revised figures show burglaries were down more than 31% and the department recorded fewer incidents of theft, vehicle theft and crime-damage vandalism in 2025 compared with the prior year. The department characterized those declines as significant amid a broader backdrop of changing call patterns.

Violent offenses presented a contrasting trend. EPD data shows incidents classified as forcible rape rose more than 39% in 2025, while aggravated assault increased by around 13% and simple assault climbed roughly 5%. Skinner noted the human weight of those incidents and the difficulty of prevention in some contexts, saying, “When you think about late-night-downtown, alcohol-induced types of things, when you think about the nuance of family violence, and what happens behind the closed doors of a family that's struggling, those things are really hard to, sometimes, put yourself in a place to help deter that.”

Criminal trespass emerged as the department’s focal enforcement area in 2025, with multiple measures showing sharp increases even as public reporting of trespass fell. EPD’s data and briefing materials indicated a roughly 53% to 54% increase in trespass by some measures; Chief Skinner said, “One of our focal points in 2025 was criminal trespass. It's the number one call for service in our community. So we wanted to focus on that in 2025, and what I will say is our criminal trespass charges went up 53% in this community, mostly predicated on our officers engaging and being proactive.” The department also noted that public trespass calls declined about 17% while trespass calls ending in citations rose about 129% and those ending in arrests rose about 70%; EPD reported 728 more trespass charges in 2025 than in 2024 in its briefing materials.

Drug-law enforcement accounts climbed sharply in 2025. EPD’s incident totals show drug abuse violations increased from 367 in 2024 to 594 in 2025, a 62% rise, and drug-related arrests and citations spiked about 78%, even as reported overdoses fell 24% year-over-year. Chief Skinner attributed the sharp increase in drug violations in part to the repeal of Measure 110, saying the recriminalization of possession likely contributed to the change in enforcement counts.

Skinner acknowledged a perception gap between statistics and how people feel about downtown safety, noting, “When I hear stories about I'm not going downtown, that it's unsafe, what I am here to tell you is statistically, there's nothing to support the fact that our downtown is any less safe than other areas of our city. But I understand that from people's perspective that they could feel unsafe downtown.” He also acknowledged under-reporting, saying, “That's a really good point. We know that crime’s under-reported… I hear every day from people that have chosen not to call.”

EPD said it will continue monitoring trespass and drug-enforcement trends and review the department’s proactive strategies in 2026. The revised 2025 dataset released at the Feb. 19 briefing provides the numeric backdrop for that work, while Skinner flagged targeted follow-ups to address the increases in sexual and assault-related incidents.