Check Out Kane County Sheriff’s First-Quarter Crime Report
The Kane County Sheriff’s Office responded to 6,746 incidents during the first quarter of 2014. That’s pretty much on par with the numbers from 2013’s first quarter, when there were 6,768 reported incidents.
As you can see by the analysis below — which you also can find on the Kane County Sheriff’s Office website — the category with the highest number of incidents is traffic stops, with 1,788. That number was significantly down in 2014, after 2,182 incidents in the first quarter of 2013.
Among the other statistics, one interesting side note was that the number of disabled-vehicle reports almost doubled comparing the first three months of this year to last year. In 2014, there were 1,010 disabled vehicles reported to the Sheriff’s Office compared to 531 in the first three months of 2013.
If you want to take a look at the 2013 statistics, here’s a link to the PDF of the Incident Breakdown by Month report for 2013.
Incident Analysis Report
Summary By Incident Type
FIRST QUARTER: Jan. 1, 2014 to March 31, 2014.
Incident Type — Number of Incidents
911 Hang Up — 100
Abandoned Vehicle — 39
Accident — 557
ACCIDENT INJURY — 106
Animal Complaint — 61
Assault — 1
Assist Ambulance — 9
Assist Another Department — 421
Attempt To Locate — 2
Battery — 31
Bomb Call — 15
Burglar Alarm — 321
Burglary — 29
Burglary to Vehicle — 7
Business Check — 106
Citizen Assist — 258
Civil Dispute — 40
COP Activity — 13
Criminal Damage (Property) — 29
Criminal Trespass (Land) — 20
Custody Dispute — 21
Death Investigation — 2
Deceptive Practice — 3
Detail — 1
Directing Traffic — 7
Disabled Vehicle — 1010
Disorderly Conduct — 5
Disturbance — 61
Domestic — 164
Drug Activity — 23
Eviction — 162
Fight in Progress — 9
Fireworks Complaint — 1
Found Lost Property — 4
Home Invasion — 3
Home Visit — 2
Illegal Burning — 9
Illegal Dumping — 5
Information — 37
K-9 — 22
LockOut — 11
Loud Music — 31
Missing Persons — 27
Paper Delivery — 97
Parking Complaint — 51
Roadway Obstruction — 89
Robbery — 1
Service 159
Sex Offender Contact 1
Sexual Incident — 4
Shots Fired — 13
Solicitor — 3
Suspicious Activity — 227
Suspicious Person — 118
Suspicious Vehicle — 4
Theft — 31
Theft of Motor Vehicle — 6
Threats — 42
Traffic Complaint — 45
Traffic Stop — 1,788
Transport — 13
Unknown — 4
Violation Order of Protection — 12
Warrant — 151
Welfare Check — 101
Wires Down — 1
Total: 6,746