Evanston Crime Statistics For 2016 Released

EVANSTON, IL — The Evanston Police Department released Tuesday its 2016 statistics covering series crimes includes murder, criminal sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault/battery, burglary, theft, motor vehicle theft and arson.

Overall, such crimes (Part I crimes) were down for the second year in a row, falling by 7.2 percent. That equated to 141 fewer victims in 2016 compared with 2015, according to the data.

Thefts make up the largest proportion of Part I crimes, 1269 of the 1811 crimes reported in Evanston for 2016, down 11.9 percent compared to 2015 numbers.

As for violent crimes, Evanston saw a reduction in violent crime numbers in the categories of murder and a 25.5 percent decrease in robberies.

Aggravated assault/battery was up by 9.1 percent and the number of criminal sexual assaults reported rose from zero in 2015 to six in 2016.

In light of last year's rise in the number of sexual assault incidents recorded by Evanston police and recent reports of sexual assaults at Northwestern University's Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, Patch reviewed data going back to 1998:

Source: Evanston Police Department Annual Reports