Quantcast

Central Wisconsin News

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

2020: 527 crimes against persons handled by Wausau law enforcement

Webp 12edited

Wausau law enforcement officers grappled with 527 crimes against persons in 2020, according to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).

This equals 43 per month in 2020.

Crimes against persons include simple assaults, aggravated assaults, intimidations, kidnappings and abductions, fondling offences and rapes.

Of all types of crime tracked by the NIBRS, simple assault was the most popular crime handled by the Wausau office.

Officers in Wausau were involved in 2,380 incidents throughout the year.

The NIBRS was designed to provide detail and context around crime stats. Under the previous system, only the most serious crime related to an incident would be logged. If an incident involved a homicide as well as aggravated assault and theft, only a homicide would be recorded in criminal statistics.

It is used by law enforcement at all levels, from local to federal.

Crimes against persons offenses in Wausau in 2020
Type of CrimeNUMBER OF OFFENCES
Aggravated assaults134
Simple assaults262
Intimidations35
Negligent manslaughters2
Justifiable homicides1
Kidnappings and abductions30
Rapes22
Sodomies3
Sexual assaults with an object1
Fondling offences26
Statutory rapes11

ORGANIZATIONS IN THIS STORY

!RECEIVE ALERTS

The next time we write about any of these orgs, we’ll email you a link to the story. You may edit your settings or unsubscribe at any time.
Sign-up

DONATE

Help support the Metric Media Foundation's mission to restore community based news.
Donate

MORE NEWS