Santa Monica continued a trend last year that left California cities with similarly sized populations far behind: It ranked number one in property crime.

The seaside city had more property crime than a dozen cities roughly the same population total of 93,921 people, according to an analysis by The Lookout of the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report released last month.

Santa Monica experienced 4,039 reported incidents of property crime in 2016, easily surpassing small, well-off cities like Santa Barbara (3,060 property crimes) and unaffluent counterparts like Compton (2,528 property crimes).

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