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Castle Rock Police Department utilizes a three-year average as a target for benchmarking purposes. While no single measurement or statistic captures or defines crime trends, the industry standard for reporting person and property crimes is to use the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) NIBRS collects data on each single incident and arrests.
The Department’s strategic measures are analyzed and reported within the annual reports. To view current and past reports, please visit: CRgov.com/PDAnnualReport.
Group A includes 46 specific crimes and 24 offense categories. For each of the offenses, there are specified types of facts about each crime reported.
In addition to Group A offenses, there are also 11 offense categories in Group B for which only arrest data is reported.
Person Crimes include: murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault.
Property Crimes include: arson, burglary, larceny/theft (including from motor vehicles) and motor vehicle theft.
Society Crimes include: gambling, obscene material, prostitution, drug and weapon violations.
Clearance Rates reflect the percentage of arrests on reported crimes.
2022 Crime Statistics / Three-Year Average Comparison
1 Average targets within the annual report are rounded to nearest whole number
