This equals five 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 Newaygo office.
Officers in Newaygo were involved in 208 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 Newaygo in 2020
| Type of Crime | NUMBER OF OFFENCES |
|---|---|
| Aggravated assaults | 11 |
| Simple assaults | 30 |
| Intimidations | 17 |
| Sodomies | 4 |
| Fondling offences | 6 |
| Aggravated assaults | 47 |
| Simple assaults | 168 |
| Intimidations | 18 |
| Rapes | 12 |
| Sodomies | 4 |
| Sexual assaults with an object | 1 |
| Fondling offences | 17 |
| Incest crimes | 1 |
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