Crime

Arrest: Occurs when police officers either issues a “Citation and Notice” form or takes a suspect into custody.

Crime: Reported incidents with violations of law.

Crime Rate over Time: This is a calculation of reported crimes in Hazel Crest, IL per 1,000 people.

Crime Types: The Hazel Crest Police Department’s local offense codes were mapped to codes used in the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) for law enforcement agencies. For ease of use and understanding for residents, each of these crime types is assigned one of the following six groups (Disorderly Conduct, Financial Crimes, Physical or Sexual Violence, Property and Theft-Related Crimes, Substance-related Crimes, Other Crimes) for the visualizations on this website. Please refer to the Guide to Understanding NIBRS website for more information.

• Disorderly Conduct: Behavior that disrupts public peace or decorum, disturbs other people or endangers public safety such as violating curfew, loitering, and vagrancy.
• Financial Crimes: Activity by a person or group that involves fraudulent or dishonest behavior for personal financial gain such as bribery, counterfeiting, and embezzlement.
• Physical or Sexual Violence: Assault or threats to inflict bodily harm or death on another person including assault, sexual assault, and rape.
• Property and Theft-Related Crimes: The intentional destruction or defacement of property, or the unlawful taking of money or property, such as burglary, motor vehicle theft, and arson.
• Substance-related Crimes: The possession, use, distribution, manufacture of illegal substances or drugs and offenses in which a substance’s influence contribute to an incident such as Driving under the influence (DUI) and drunkenness.
• Other Crimes: Crimes that do not fall under the categories above such as animal cruelty, bond default and perjury.

Historical Activity: Refers to past years for which data is available. Please note data availability and completeness varies by year.

Incident Number: A unique identifier for incident records.

Nature of Incident: Additional details about an incident logged by the police officer.

Offender: Person accused or suspected of being responsible of a crime.

Outcome: The last reported status of an incident. This is also referred to as a disposition. A police report disposition is a code that indicates the status of a case. View more information on disposition types below:

• Cleared by Adult Arrest: An officer has taken an individual aged 18 years or older into custody and no further follow-up is needed.
• Cleared by Juvenile Arrest: An officer has taken an individual aged younger than 18 years into custody and no further follow-up is needed.
• Pending Investigation: The case is active and requires additional action or follow-up. Law enforcement may be conducting additional investigations, future hearings may be scheduled, and no final determination has been made in the case.
• Closed Administratively: Cases that do not require any follow-up.
• Inactive: Criminal cases in which there are no leads.
• Information Only: A police report is taken for documentation purposes.

Recent Activity: Refers to the most recent day (12:00am to 11:59pm CT) for which data is available.

Victim: A person who has suffered physical, emotional, or financial harm as a result of a crime.