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North Little Rock enforcement officers handle 1,660 crimes against persons in 2020

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North Little Rock law enforcement officers grappled with 1,660 crimes against persons in 2020, according to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).

This equals 138 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 North Little Rock office.

Officers in North Little Rock were involved in 6,704 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 North Little Rock in 2020
Type of CrimeNUMBER OF OFFENCES
Aggravated assaults532
Simple assaults831
Intimidations254
Murders and nonnegligent manslaughters20
Negligent manslaughters1
Justifiable homicides1
Kidnappings and abductions5
Rapes11
Sodomies2
Sexual assaults with an object1
Fondling offences2

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