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Clery Crime Definitions

Negligent Manslaughter: The killing of another person through gross negligence 

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.

Forcible Rape: carnal knowledge of a 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 because of his/her temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity (or because of his/her youth).

Forcible Sodomy: oral or anal sexual intercourse with another person, forcibly and/or against that person’s will; or not forcibly or against that person’s will where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her youth or because of his/her temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity.

Sexual Assault with an Object: use of an object or instrument to unlawfully penetrate, however slightly, the genital or anal opening of the body of another person, forcibly and/or against that person’s will where the victim is incapable or giving consent because of youth or because of temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity.

Forcible Fondling: touching of the private body parts of another person for the purpose of sexual gratification, forcibly and/or against that person’s will or, not forcibly or against that person’s will where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her youth or because of his/her mental incapacity.

Incest: non-forcible sexual intercourse between persons who are related to each other within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law.

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

Statutory Rape: non-forcible sexual intercourse with a person who is under the age of consent.

Robbery: The taking or attempting to take anything of value from the care, custody or control of a person or persons by force or threat of force or violence and/or by putting the victim in fear.

Robbery with a Firearm: use of any firearm as a weapon or employed as a means of force to threaten the victim or put the victim in fear.

Robbery with a Knife or Cutting Instrument: use of a knife, broken bottle, razor, ice pick or other cutting or stabbing instrument as weapon or as a means of force to threaten the victim or put the victim in fear.

Robbery with other Dangerous Weapon: use of a club, acid, explosive, brass knuckles, mace, pepper spray or other dangerous weapon used or use is threatened.

Strong Arm – Hands, Fists, Feet, etc: Includes muggings and similar offenses where personal weapons such as hands, arms, feet, fists, and teeth are used or use is threatened to deprive victim of possessions.

Aggravated Assault: Unlawful attack by one person upon another for the purpose of inflicting severe or aggravated bodily injury. Usually accompanied by the use of a weapon or by means likely to produce death or great bodily harm.

Aggravated Assault with a Firearm: firearm of any type is used or is threatened to be used. Includes revolvers, semi-automatic pistols, shotguns, zip guns, rifles, etc.

Aggravated Assault with a Knife or Cutting Instrument: assaults wherein weapons such as knives, razors, hatchets, axes, cleavers, scissors, glass, broken bottles and ice picks are used as cutting or stabbing objects or when threatened to be used.

Aggravated Assault other Dangerous Weapon: use or threatened use of any object as a weapon in which serious injury does or could result. Weapons include mace, pepper spray, clubs, bricks, jack handles, tire irons, bottles or other blunt objects to club or beat victims. Includes explosives, acid, and burnings. Published: October 1, 2012 Page 32

Aggravated Assault with Hands, Fists, Feet, and Teeth: attacks using personal weapons such as (hands, fists, feet, etc.) that result in serious or aggravated injury.

Burglary: Unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or a theft.

Forcible Entry: all offenses where force of any kind is used to unlawfully enter a structure for the purpose of committing a theft or felony. Entry through the use of tools; breaking or forcing windows, doors, transom or ventilators; cutting screens, wall or roofs; and if known use of master keys, picks unauthorized keys, celluloid, a mechanical contrivance such as a pass or skeleton key or any device that leaves no outward mark but forces a lock. Include concealment inside a building followed by exiting the structure.

Unlawful Entry – No Force: entry by use of an unlocked door or window. Include thefts from open garages, open warehouses, open or unlocked dwellings, and open or unlocked common basement areas where entry is someone other than the lawful tenant. 

Attempted Forcible Entry: forcible entry is attempted but not completed. 

Motor Vehicle Theft: The theft or attempted theft of a motor vehicle. There are three classes of motor vehicles: (1) autos, (2) trucks and buses, (3) and other vehicles. 

  • Trucks/Buses: includes the theft of those vehicles specifically designed (but not necessarily used) to transport people and cargo.
  • Other Vehicles: Motor vehicles that meet the UCR definition such as snowmobiles, motorcycles, motor scooters, trail bikes, mopeds, golf carts, all-terrain vehicles and motorized wheelchairs.

Arson: Willful or malicious burning or attempt to burn with or without intent to defraud a dwelling house, public building, motor vehicle or aircraft, personal property of another, etc.

  • Mobile: cars, trucks, buses, motorcycles, trailers, planes, boats.
  • Other: crops, timber, fences, signs, merchandise stored outside a structure.

Hate Crimes – Any of the above mention offenses or any other crime involving bodily injury reported to local police agencies or to any required reporting party that manifest evidence that the victim was intentionally selected because of the perpetrator’s bias. Categories of bias are: Race, Gender, Religion, Sexual Orientation, Ethnicity, and Disability.

In addition to the standard list of Clery reportable crimes, the following crimes are classified as hate crimes when there is evidence that the offense was committed with bias against a protected class as defined above.

Larceny- theft: Includes the crimes of Pocket Picking, Purse Snatching, Shoplifting, Theft from Building, Theft from Coin Operated Machine or Device, Theft from Motor Vehicle, Theft of Motor Vehicle Parts or Accessories, and all Other Larceny.

Simple Assault: an unlawful physical attack by one person upon another where neither the offender displays a weapon, nor the victim suffers obvious sever or aggravated bodily injury involving apparent broken bones, loss of teeth, possible internal injury, severe laceration or loss of consciousness.

Intimidation: to unlawfully place another person in reasonable fear of bodily harm through the use of threatening words and d/or other conduct but without displaying a weapon or subjecting the victim to actual physical attack.

Destruction/Damage/Vandalism of Property (except "Arson"): to willfully or maliciously destroy, damage, deface, or otherwise injure real or personal property without the consent of the owner or the person having custody or control of it.

Arrest & Referrals for Disciplinary Action

Illegal Weapons Possession: The violation of laws or ordinances prohibiting the manufacture, sale, purchase, transportation, possession, concealment, or use of firearms, cutting instruments, explosives, incendiary devices or other deadly weapons. The classification encompasses weapons offenses that are regularly in nature. Include in this classification: manufacture, sale or possession of deadly weapons; carrying deadly weapons, concealed or openly; using manufacturing, etc., of silencers; furnishing deadly weapons to minors; aliens possessing deadly weapons; and attempts to commit any of the above. Published: October 1, 2012 Page 33

Drug Law Violations: The violation of laws prohibiting the production, distribution and/or use of certain controlled substances and the equipment or devices utilized in their preparation and/or use. The unlawful cultivation, manufacture, distribution, sale, purchase, use, possession, transportation or importation of any controlled drug or narcotic substance. Arrests for violations of state and local laws, specifically those 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 – manufactured narcotics which can cause true addiction (Demerol, methadone); and dangerous nonnarcotic drugs (barbiturates, Benzedrine).

Liquor Law Violations: The violation of state or local laws or ordinances prohibiting the manufacture, sale, purchase, transportation, possession, or use of alcoholic beverages, not including driving under the influence and drunkenness. Include in this classification: the manufacture sale, transporting, furnishing, possession, etc., of intoxicating liquor; maintaining unlawful drinking places; bootlegging; operating still; furnishing liquor to a minor or intemperate person; underage possession; using a vehicle of illegal transportation of liquor; drinking on train or public conveyance; and attempts to commit any of the above.

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