Men and women go missing every day but in the small community of Lake County it's a shock when someone's mother or sister or brother or cousin go missing and it's a devastating thing to go through. 

In 2023, California police received about 18 reports of domestic violence per hour

Eight in ten domestic violence incidents involving weapons are aggravated domestic assaults, which are driving the overall rise in weapon use. Aggravated domestic assaults have been increasing for more than a decade and, by 2023, rebounded to levels common in the early 2000s. In 2023, more than half of domestic violence incidents involved aggravated domestic assaults, compared to 35% in 2019.

LAKEPORT, Calif. — A new report shows an overall drop in crime in the city of Lakeport, with property crimes down while, at the same time, several categories of violent crime increasing.

The total number of crimes at 159 came to the lowest in 2024 in four years. Larceny, assault, and domestic violence were the most common crime types in Lakeport for the year. The number of assault cases in 2024 were four times higher than in 2022 and 2023, but remained far lower than 90 cases in 2021.

We need to keep the violence out of Lake County and keep the offenders that offend over and over again locked up.