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2022: Cherokee County Sheriff's Office law enforcement deals with less than one counterfeiting and forgery crime per day

Published 05/29/24

Law enforcement officials in Cherokee County Sheriff's Office dealt with less than one counterfeiting and forgery crime per day in 2022, according to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).

In total, there were 88 counterfeiting and forgery crimes that Cherokee County Sheriff's Office dealt with in 2022.

Simple assault was the most common crime in Cherokee County Sheriff's Office with 724 offenses throughout 2022.

Officers in Cherokee County Sheriff's Office were involved in 4,714 offenses 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. Due to logistical and technological challenges, not every enforcement authority has signed up for NIBRS and stats might not reflect a complete picture of crimes which occurred.

Crimes in Cherokee County Sheriff's Office in 2022

Type of CrimeNumber of offenses
Acts of damage or vandalism437
Aggravated assaults127
Animal cruelties3
Arsons5
Assisting or promoting prostitution offenses1
Betting and wagering violations0
Briberies1
Burglaries, breaking and entering crimes119
Commercial sex acts1
Counterfeiting and forgery crimes88
Credit card and ATM frauds120
Drug and narcotic violations718
Drug equipment violations273
Embezzlements11
Extortions and blackmail offenses59
False impersonations16
Fondling offenses30
Gambling equipment violations0
Hackings and computer invasions35
Identity thefts227
Incest crimes0
Intimidations326
Involuntary servitudes0
Justifiable homicides2
Kidnappings and abductions34
Larcenies285
Motor vehicle thefts84
Murders and non-negligent manslaughters4
Negligent manslaughters4
Obtaining property by false pretenses263
Operating, promoting and assisting gambling offenses0
Pornography and obscene materials violations16
Prostitution offenses2
Purchasing prostitution0
Rapes21
Robberies12
Shopliftings186
Simple assaults724
Sodomies12
Sports tamperings0
Statutory rapes6
Stolen property offenses29
Thefts from buildings127
Thefts from motor vehicles177
Thefts of motor vehicle parts or accessories61
Weapon law violations43
Welfare frauds0
Wire frauds19

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