Eudora enforcement officers handle 29 crimes against persons in 2020

Eudora enforcement officers handle 29 crimes against persons in 2020
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Eudora law enforcement officers grappled with 29 crimes against persons in 2020, according to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).

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 Eudora office.

Officers in Eudora were involved in 105 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 Eudora in 2020
Type of Crime NUMBER OF OFFENCES
Aggravated assaults 4
Simple assaults 17
Intimidations 7
Murders and nonnegligent manslaughters 1


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