INDIANA — Simple assault was the most commonly committed criminal offense in Indiana, according to an analysis of recent FBI crime data.
The study, conducted by the legal research firm Injury Lawyer Team, utilized the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ Law Enforcement Agency Reported Crime Analysis Tool (LEARCAT) to examine criminal offenses across the country. The findings pinpoint exactly which offenses were reported most frequently by law enforcement agencies throughout the Hoosier State.
In Indiana, simple assault took the top spot with 37,897 recorded incidents. To put that figure into perspective, an incident of simple assault was documented more than once every 14 minutes across the state’s participating law enforcement agencies over the course of the year.
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