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Myrtle Beach enforcement officers handle 1,694 crimes against persons in 2020

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Myrtle Beach law enforcement officers grappled with 1,694 crimes against persons in 2020, according to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).

This equals 141 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 Myrtle Beach office.

Officers in Myrtle Beach were involved in 8,517 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 Myrtle Beach in 2020
Type of CrimeNUMBER OF OFFENCES
Aggravated assaults351
Simple assaults1,128
Intimidations90
Murders and nonnegligent manslaughters6
Commercial sex acts2
Kidnappings and abductions16
Rapes38
Sodomies16
Sexual assaults with an object4
Fondling offences40
Statutory rapes3

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