Crimes
Rape and sexual assault involve sexual contact or penetration without lawful consent, including situations involving force, threats, coercion, incapacitation, or inability to consent.
Arson is intentionally setting fire to property, structures, vehicles, land, or objects, especially when the fire creates danger, damage, loss, or concealment of another act.
Drug-related crime can involve possession, dealing, trafficking, manufacturing, overdose risk, nuisance activity, threats, weapons, exploitation, or recurring activity at a location.
Fraud is deception used to obtain money, property, identity information, services, access, or another benefit from someone who relied on false information.
Theft is taking or keeping property, money, services, or access that belongs to someone else without permission and with the intent to deprive the owner of it.
Murder and homicide involve the unlawful killing of a person, with the legal classification depending on intent, circumstances, justification, and the available proof.
Assault involves unlawful force, attempted force, injury, threats, or conduct that makes another person reasonably fear immediate harm.
Robbery is theft involving force, threats, intimidation, or fear, so it combines property loss with immediate personal danger.
Burglary involves unlawfully entering or remaining in a building, vehicle, room, fenced area, or protected place to commit a crime inside.
Stalking is a pattern of unwanted attention, monitoring, following, contact, threats, or intrusion that causes fear, emotional distress, or safety concern.
Squatting involves unauthorized occupancy or control of property, but the facts can overlap with trespass, landlord-tenant issues, fraud, utilities, and civil court rules.
Vandalism is intentionally damaging, defacing, destroying, or tampering with property that belongs to someone else.
Cybercrime involves computers, phones, accounts, networks, digital identities, online platforms, or electronic communications being used as the target or tool of a crime.
Harassment is unwanted conduct that pressures, threatens, alarms, annoys, humiliates, or intimidates someone, especially when it repeats or continues after boundaries are made clear.
Kidnapping involves taking, holding, moving, hiding, or restraining a person without lawful authority, often through force, fear, deception, or coercion.
Trespassing involves entering or remaining on property without permission, especially after notice, boundaries, signs, locks, or prior warnings make access unauthorized.
Illegal-weapons concerns can involve unlawful possession, prohibited weapons, threats, trafficking, unsafe storage, modified weapons, or weapons connected to other crimes.
Missing-person situations involve someone whose location, safety, or ability to return is unknown, whether the cause is criminal, medical, voluntary, accidental, or unclear.
Human trafficking involves exploiting a person through force, fraud, or coercion for labor, services, commercial sex, debt, housing, transportation, or control.