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Ypsilanti enforcement officers handle 816 crimes against persons in 2020

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Ypsilanti law enforcement officers grappled with 816 crimes against persons in 2020, according to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).

This equals 68 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 Ypsilanti office.

Officers in Ypsilanti were involved in 1,877 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 Ypsilanti in 2020
Type of CrimeNUMBER OF OFFENCES
Aggravated assaults212
Simple assaults465
Intimidations59
Murders and nonnegligent manslaughters1
Commercial sex acts1
Kidnappings and abductions3
Rapes45
Sodomies6
Fondling offences24

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