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2020: 1,051 crimes against persons handled by Albemarle County Police Department law enforcement

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Albemarle County Police Department law enforcement officers grappled with 1,051 crimes against persons in 2020, according to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).

This equals 87 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 Albemarle County Police Department office.

Officers in Albemarle County Police Department were involved in 3,906 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 Albemarle County Police Department in 2020
Type of CrimeNUMBER OF OFFENCES
Aggravated assaults75
Simple assaults783
Intimidations105
Murders and nonnegligent manslaughters7
Kidnappings and abductions10
Rapes22
Sodomies4
Sexual assaults with an object1
Fondling offences35
Incest crimes2
Statutory rapes7

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