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Newton enforcement officers handle 237 crimes against persons in 2020

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Newton law enforcement officers grappled with 237 crimes against persons in 2020, according to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).

This equals 19 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 Newton office.

Officers in Newton were involved in 752 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 Newton in 2020
Type of CrimeNUMBER OF OFFENCES
Aggravated assaults52
Simple assaults149
Intimidations15
Rapes7
Sodomies1
Sexual assaults with an object1
Fondling offences11
Statutory rapes1

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