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Whitfield enforcement officers handle 866 crimes against persons in 2020

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Whitfield law enforcement officers grappled with 866 crimes against persons in 2020, according to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).

This equals 72 per month in 2020.

Crimes against persons include simple assaults, aggravated assaults, intimidations, kidnappings and abductions, fondling offences and rapes.

Of all types of crime tracked by the NIBRS, simple assault was the most popular crime handled by the Whitfield office.

Officers in Whitfield were involved in 3,046 incidents throughout the year.

The NIBRS was designed to provide detail and context around crime stats. Under the previous system, only the most serious crime related to an incident would be logged. If an incident involved a homicide as well as aggravated assault and theft, only a homicide would be recorded in criminal statistics.

It is used by law enforcement at all levels, from local to federal.

Crimes against persons offenses in Whitfield in 2020
Type of CrimeNUMBER OF OFFENCES
Aggravated assaults249
Simple assaults305
Intimidations225
Murders and nonnegligent manslaughters1
Commercial sex acts1
Involuntary servitudes1
Kidnappings and abductions22
Rapes14
Sodomies14
Fondling offences30
Statutory rapes4

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