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Waynesville enforcement officers handle 210 crimes against persons in 2020

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Waynesville law enforcement officers grappled with 210 crimes against persons in 2020, according to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).

This equals 17 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 Waynesville office.

Officers in Waynesville were involved in 1,745 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 Waynesville in 2020
Type of CrimeNUMBER OF OFFENCES
Aggravated assaults44
Simple assaults125
Intimidations27
Murders and nonnegligent manslaughters1
Kidnappings and abductions6
Rapes5
Fondling offences1
Statutory rapes1

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