Arrests for Drug Abuse Violations: Violations of State and local laws relating to the unlawful possession, sale, use, growing, manufacturing, and making of narcotic drugs. The relevant substances include: opium or cocaine and their derivatives (morphine, heroin, codeine); marijuana; synthetic narcotics and other dangerous nonnarcotic drugs.

Arrests for Liquor Law Violations: The violation of laws or ordinances prohibiting: the manufacture, sale, transporting, furnishing, possessing of intoxicating liquor; maintaining unlawful drinking places; bootlegging; operating a still; furnishing liquor to a minor or intemperate person; using a vehicle for illegal transportation of liquor; drinking on a train or public conveyance; and all attempts to commit any of the aforementioned. (Drunkenness & driving under the influence are not included in this definition.)

Hate Crimes: Any criminal offense committed against a person or property, which is motivated, in whole or part, by the offender's bias. Bias is a preformed negative opinion or attitude toward a group of persons based on their race, gender, religion, disability, sexual orientation or ethnicity/national origin.

Sex Offenses-Forcible: Any sexual act directed against another person, forcibly and/or against that person's will; or not forcibly or against the person's will where the victim is incapable of giving consent.

Sex Offenses-Non-forcible: Unlawful, non-forcible sexual intercourse.

  • Incest: Non-forcible sexual intercourse between persons who are related to each other within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law.
  • Statutory Rape: Non-forcible sexual intercourse with a person who is under the statutory age of consent.

Domestic Violence: Felony or misdemeanor crimes of violence committed:

  1. By a current or former spouse or intimate partner of the victim;
  2. By a person whom the victim shares a child in common;
  3. By a person who is cohabiting with or has cohabited with the victim as a spouse or intimate partner;
  4. By a person similarly situated to a spouse of the victim under the domestic or

family violence laws of the jurisdiction in which the crime of violence occurred; or