BLOOMINGTON - The city saw a 71 percent increase in juvenile arrests in 2008 and twice as many killings classified as murders or non-negligent manslaughter cases, according to the Bloomington Police Department's 2008 annual report. | Read the full BPD report (PDF)

The report, posted on the city's Web site Friday afternoon, gives an overview of reported crimes, arrests and other police initiatives, with trend analyses and five-year averages. Police officials would not comment on the annual report until next week.

The report shows 356 juvenile arrests in 2008, up 71.2 percent from the 208 juvenile arrests in 2007. The five-year change from 2004 is an increase of 41.3 percent.

BPD also saw in an increase in the number of adult arrests, from 1,554 in 2007 to 1,975 in 2008, or 27.1 percent. But the five-year change is a slight decrease of 0.5 percent.

In all, calls for service fell 2.8 percent in 2008 to 60,308.

Two categories of index crimes - which are uniformly reported major violent or property offenses - saw a 25 percent decrease in reports in 2008. The number of reports of criminal sexual assault fell from 84 in 2007 to 63 in 2008. There were 18 reports of arson in 2008, down from 24 in 2007.

Yet the city saw a doubling of the number of reports of murder/non-negligent manslaughter in 2008, from 3 in 2007 to 6 in 2008.

Also, the city's five-year change in the aggravated assault or battery category is an increase of 48.1 percent. That includes a 10.7 percent increase from 356 in 2007 to 394 in 2008, the report shows.