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Incident report for San Juan County Sheriff's report for 2001

Sheriff's office dealt with 6,749 incidents in 2002

posted 01/04/01
Drivers on Orcas Island have the greatest chance of being stopped by a deputy. The sheriff office statistics for 2002 list 869 traffic stops on the Horseshoe Island compared to 695 on San Juan Island and 266 on Lopez Island.

SHERIFF OFFICE STATISTICS FOR 2002
  San Juan Island (outside of FH) Friday Harbor Orcas Island Lopez Island Shaw Island Outer Island
TRAFFIC CITATION REPORT
Traffic citations 262 215 467 76   2
Traffic violations 329 257 536 97   2
INCIDENT REPORT
Abandoned vehicles 22 22 35 4    
Accident, fatal traffic 1          
Accident Hit and Run 22 27 23 13    
Injury traffic accident 27 7 18 6    
Non-injury traffic accident 62 39 69 19 2  
Alarm 68 96 66 20 1  
Alcohol offense 3 21 3 2  
Animal at large 91 61 76 50 1 1
Assault: aggravated   5 4      
Assault: body force 6 12 6 3    
Burglary: residential 12 5 10 13 1 1
Burglary: non-residential 4 9 10 3    
Death investigation 4 7 11 5  
Domestic dispute or assault 23 40 35 24   1
DUI 6 9 10 4    
Illegal fireworks 8 7 18 13   1
Juvenile problem 1 12 7 2    
Malicious mischief 49 66 40 24   1
Noise complaint (not dogs) 20 18 28 9    
Overdose   2        
Prowler 5 1 2 1    
Rape/attempted rape   1        
Runaway 12 8 7 1    
Sex offense 1 9 4 1    
Shooting (Person shot)   1        
Skateboard violation   14 6 6    
Suicide (attempted) 2 5 4 1    
Suspicious person/circumstance 87 126 132 42 1 1
Theft 61 114 98 33 2 1
Threats 5 19 17   1 1
Traffic stops 367 328 869 266    
Vehicle prowl 2 5 8 4    
Vehicle theft 10 7 12 1   1
Weapons offense 19 2 8 8    
Welfare check 24 43 37 19 1  
The table does not include all of the 90+ categories of calls.
TOTAL INCIDENTS
PER ISLAND

(There were 51 other incidents for a total of 6,749)
1,506 1,929 2,373 835 29 26

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