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Perry Township, Stark County enforcement officers handle 569 crimes against persons in 2020

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Perry Township, Stark County law enforcement officers grappled with 569 crimes against persons in 2020, according to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).

This equals 47 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, intimidation was the most popular crime handled by the Perry Township, Stark County office.

Officers in Perry Township, Stark County were involved in 1,574 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 Perry Township, Stark County in 2020
Type of CrimeNUMBER OF OFFENCES
Aggravated assaults47
Simple assaults223
Intimidations250
Murders and nonnegligent manslaughters1
Kidnappings and abductions1
Rapes18
Sodomies1
Fondling offences28

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