Columbia law enforcement officers grappled with 2,244 crimes against persons in 2020, according to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).
This equals six per day 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 Columbia office.
Officers in Columbia were involved in 12,479 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.
| Type of Crime | NUMBER OF OFFENCES |
|---|---|
| Aggravated assaults | 691 |
| Simple assaults | 1,255 |
| Intimidations | 99 |
| Murders and nonnegligent manslaughters | 19 |
| Justifiable homicides | 3 |
| Kidnappings and abductions | 63 |
| Rapes | 66 |
| Sodomies | 19 |
| Sexual assaults with an object | 6 |
| Fondling offences | 22 |
| Incest crimes | 1 |
