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Enforcement officers in De Queen deal with 103 crimes against persons in 2020

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De Queen law enforcement officers grappled with 103 crimes against persons in 2020, according to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).

This equals eight 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 De Queen office.

Officers in De Queen were involved in 523 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 De Queen in 2020
Type of CrimeNUMBER OF OFFENCES
Aggravated assaults19
Simple assaults33
Intimidations42
Kidnappings and abductions2
Rapes4
Fondling offences3

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