Crime & Safety

Chicago Heights Releases 2010 Crime Statistics

Chief of Staff Lisa Aprati says the police department submitted the numbers to the FBI on time.

Tuesday, . But Chicago Heights was missing from the report.

The missing information was not a mistake on the city's part, according to Chief of Staff Lisa Aprati, who said the stats were sent to the FBI by the Sept. 16 deadline.

The data below reflect Chicago Heights crime statistics for all 12 months of 2010. Due to a change in state reporting methods, Illinois statistics from 2010 cannot be compared to 2009 statistics, according to the FBI.

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VIOLENT CRIME

Pop. Total Violent
Crime Murder and
Non-negligent
Manslaughter Forcible
Rape Robbery Aggravated
Assault/Battery 30,276
278
6 27 123 122

PROPERTY CRIME

Pop. Total Property
Crime BurglaryΒ  TheftΒ  Motor
Vehicle
Theft Arson 30,276
1,260
494 583 158 25

The also included information regarding the number of arrests for each crime, which we have included in the tables below.

VIOLENT CRIME ARRESTS

Pop. Total Violent
Crime Arrests
Murder and
Non-negligent
Manslaughter Arrests
Forcible
Rape Arrests
Robbery Arrests
Aggravated
Assault/Battery Arrests
30,276
71
5 3 14 49

PROPERTY CRIME ARRESTS

Pop. Total Violent
Crime Arrests
BurglaryΒ  Arrests
TheftΒ  Arrests
Motor
Vehicle
Theft Arrests
Arson Arrests
30,276
166
46 112
8 0

The FBI cautions against using this data to rank police departments and community crime rates. When the FBI determines an agency’s data collection methodology does notΒ comply with national UCR guidelines, that agency’s information will not be included in the Uniform Crime Report.

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