Apparently, I can't find the figure in the sources you cited; I'm going to have to go with the official police sources for the cited cities...
It is wise to be wary of local news 'statistics'; it must be remembered the local news is more geared to a sort of 'click bait' journalism, often going for a garish headline/story in order to pique viewer interest towards watching their brand of news; I can't begin to count how many times the local news stations here will run something in the early afternoon like "Health officials issue urgent health warning! The Story at 11:00 pm!"; they also tend to play fast and loose with the background related to their stories...
Case in point: there has been, in the past several months, much ado made by LA local news about 'rampant crime' on the LA area transit system, particularly the rail portion of the system; to hear them tell it, the trains are a hotbed of run amok criminals and the crime has only recently gotten worse; as I noted before, I've lived in LA over 50 years and have a lot of experience with the local transit; early on the system was, indeed, a rather scary ride, but that was because of a very inept managing agency looking to run as cheaply as possible, and, when that agency began the idea of adding rail service to the existing buss lines, they totally neglected the bus lines in favor of using their funds to finance the rail projects; it got so bad for the bus riders a class action suit was filed in Federal Court and the Court ordered the then agency to divert funds away from their rail projects and make significant changes and improvements to the bus service; since then, another new agency has taken control of the transit system and has been pretty good about the upkeep and improvement of the system while being able to add vital rail services; the very first rail line was called the Blue Line and ran from Downton LA to the City of Long Beach, roughly 20 miles distant; the line runs through some of the toughest neighborhood in LA and Long Beach, including places like Watts, Compton, etc., so the line was a prime target for the gangs and other miscreants; when the subway lines opened later, they too attracted a criminal element and a homeless problem; but the problem was pretty much ignored by the local TV press until the system had a significant modification that expanded the reach of disconnected lines into a more unified whole; this meant riders from the 'safer' parts of the county were sharing trains and buses with 'those people' and an uproar began that was seized up by the TV news; I ride the transit system regularly, since I no longer drive, and to be honest, the perceptible crime problems I've experienced a not really much different that they were before; the homeless problem has slightly become more annoying/troublesome; what has happened is the usual thing of the crime is much worse its just happening to the 'right people' so the attention has increased; there is also the rather recent filming of anything and everything on cell phones, so it mainly appears crime is much worse; when there weren't any omnipresent cell phones vids and the victims/perpetrators were mainly 'those people', there really wasn't much interest in the crime rate, but, now the 'quality' of the offenses is different, so the local news has glommed onto the idea and, if you believe them, a trip to the store on the transit system is akin to a ride through Afghanistan...
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