Definitions of Reportable Crimes
Murder/Manslaughter – defined as the willful killing of
one human being by another.
Negligent Manslaughter – defined as the killing of another
person through gross negligence.
Sexual Assault (Sex Offenses) – any sexual act directed
against another person, without consent of the victim, including instances where the victim is incapable of giving consent.
- Rape is the penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus, with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim. This offense includes the rape of both males and females.
- Fondling is the touching of the private body parts of another person for the purpose of sexual gratification, without the consent of the victim.
- Incest is sexual intercourse between persons who are related to each other within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law. Statutory Rape is sexual intercourse with a person who is under the statutory age of consent.
Robbery – defined as 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.
Aggravated Assault – defined as an unlawful attack by
one person upon another for the purpose of inflicting severe
or aggravated bodily injury. This type of assault usually is
accompanied by the use of a weapon or by means likely
to produce death or great bodily harm.
Burglary – unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony
or theft.
Motor Vehicle Theft – theft or attempted theft of a motor
vehicle.
Arson – any 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.
Domestic Violence – Domestic violence is defined as abuse
committed by a person who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim
and includes felony or misdemeanor crimes of violence
committed by:
- a current or former spouse of the victim;
- by a person with whom the victim shares a child in common;
- by a person who is cohabitating with or has cohabitated with the victim as a spouse;
- by a person similarly situated to a spouse of the victim under California law; or
- by any other person against an adult or youth victim who is protected from that person’s acts under California law.
Dating Violence – Dating violence means violence committed by a person—
- who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim; and
- where the existence of such a relationship will be determined by the reporting party’s statement and based on a consideration of the following factors:
- The length of the relationship.
- The type of relationship.
- The frequency of interaction between the persons involved in the relationship.
Stalking – Stalking is behavior in which a person willfully,
maliciously, and repeatedly follows or willfully and maliciously harasses another person and who makes a credible threat
with the intent to place that person in reasonable fear for his
or her safety, or the safety of his or her immediate family.
Hate Crimes – includes all of the crimes listed above that
manifest evidence that the victim was intentionally selected
because of the perpetrator’s bias against the victim based on
one of the Categories of Prejudice listed below, plus the
following crimes.
- Larceny/Theft – includes pocket-picking, purse snatching, shoplifting, theft from building, theft from a motor vehicle, theft of motor vehicle parts or accessories, and all other larceny.
- Simple Assault – unlawful physical attack by one person upon another where neither the offender displays a weapon, nor the victim suffers obvious severe 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/or other conduct but without displaying a weapon or subjecting the victim to actual physical attack.
- Destruction/Damage/Vandalism to 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.
Categories of Prejudice
- Race – A preformed negative attitude toward a group of persons who possess common physical characteristics genetically transmitted by descent and heredity that distinguish them as a distinct division of humankind. Gender – A preformed negative opinion or attitude toward a group of persons because those persons are male or female.
- Religion – A preformed negative opinion or attitude toward a group of persons who share the same religious beliefs regarding the origin and purpose of the universe and the existence or nonexistence of a supreme being.
- Sexual Orientation – A preformed negative opinion or attitude toward a group of persons based on their sexual attraction toward, and responsiveness to, members of their own sex or members of the opposite sex.
- Ethnicity/national origin – A preformed negative opinion or attitude toward a group of persons of the same race or national origin who share common or similar traits, languages, customs, and traditions.
- Disability – A preformed negative opinion or attitude toward a group of persons based on their physical or mental impairments/ challenges, whether such disability is temporary or permanent, congenital or acquired by heredity, accident, injury, advanced age, or illness.
- Gender Identity – A preformed negative opinion or attitude toward a group of persons because the perceived gender of those persons may be different from the gender traditionally associated with their gender at birth.
