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Edgecombe enforcement officers handle 215 crimes against persons in 2020

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Edgecombe law enforcement officers grappled with 215 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, aggravated assault was the most popular crime handled by the Edgecombe office.

Officers in Edgecombe were involved in 1,053 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 Edgecombe in 2020
Type of CrimeNUMBER OF OFFENCES
Aggravated assaults128
Simple assaults66
Intimidations9
Murders and nonnegligent manslaughters1
Kidnappings and abductions1
Rapes1
Sexual assaults with an object2
Fondling offences6
Statutory rapes1