Battery With Sexual Contact reports in Los Angeles

A sensitive type, counted as reports

Battery With Sexual Contact on the LAPD extract is the type LAPD assigned when the report was written. Rape, Forcible and other sex-offense strings are separate published types on the same city feed; they should not be added to 1,379 without saying so. The 1,379 figure is a row count. It is not a count of unique survivors, unique suspects, or prosecuted cases.

Sexual battery is widely underreported in victimization research. That research is not a packet fact, and this page does not invent a "true total." The honest statistic is 1,379 public LAPD incident rows among 400,500 indexed Los Angeles reports. Many events never appear in police files; some reports are later unfounded or recoded.

The official published label is "Battery With Sexual Contact." LocalCrimeVault does not rewrite that string. Small share is not small harm; only the report count is a packet fact.

How to read the public table respectfully

The type hub lists reports with the fields LAPD shares: date, coarse location, and related attributes. Block ranges are not street-number addresses of survivors. Do not treat a pin as identifying a household or a workplace. This page will not reconstruct events.

Description fields on open-data crime files can be sparse by design. If a row includes an arrest flag, that flag is still not a conviction. LocalCrimeVault does not impute missing geography. Survivors are not named. The overlay is for date, coarse location, and report volume.

Share of the Los Angeles extract

At 1,379 reports, this type is much smaller than theft or battery in the 400,500-incident index and remains one of the types readers search by name. Small share is not small harm. Statistical rank and human impact are different questions; only the rank is a packet fact here (about 0.3 percent of indexed city incidents).

Do not combine Battery With Sexual Contact with Rape, Forcible or other sex-offense labels to build an unofficial total unless you list every type included. LAPD's labels are the ones this site keeps. If a prosecutor later files a different charge, the public incident row may still say Battery With Sexual Contact.

What 1,379 is not

It is not a hospital forensic-exam count, not a rape-crisis hotline count, and not a court caseload. Those systems overlap imperfectly with LAPD reports. Quote the open-data type if your question is how many incident rows LAPD labeled Battery With Sexual Contact.

Los Angeles Police Department publishes the incidents through LA Open Data. LocalCrimeVault indexes types as filed. Survivors are not named here. The respectful use of the table is aggregate: date, coarse location, report volume.

Where to go next in the Los Angeles data

The Battery With Sexual Contact type hub is the overlay for these 1,379 rows. The Los Angeles hub shows the type beside the rest of the 400,500-incident mix. A cross-city page follows other agencies' labels, which may use different statute names. Cite LAPD when you quote 1,379.

Cite 1,379 as Los Angeles Police Department incident rows with published type Battery With Sexual Contact among 400,500 city reports (about 0.3 percent). Keep Rape, Forcible on its own hub. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify charges and does not add graphic case detail. Record the 1,379 / 400,500 harvest pair. Geography must stay coarse.

Hospital forensic exams, rape-crisis hotlines, and court caseloads overlap imperfectly. They are not merged into 1,379. If your question is service volume, use those systems. If your question is how many incident rows LAPD labeled Battery With Sexual Contact, 1,379 is the packet fact. Victimization surveys find underreporting for this class of events; that literature is not a packet fact, and this page does not estimate a "true" total from 1,379. Open-data crime files are living tables. A later harvest can add late-submitted reports or drop rows the agency has sealed or corrected. Cite LAPD and the harvest pair. Do not treat this guide as a live dispatch feed or a court docket.

Questions

How many Battery With Sexual Contact reports are in Los Angeles data?

This extract lists 1,379 Los Angeles incidents with published type Battery With Sexual Contact, about 0.3 percent of 400,500 city reports. The source is Los Angeles Police Department open data. The figure counts police reports, not convictions, unique people, or a victim survey. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify LAPD charges.

Is Battery With Sexual Contact the same as Rape, Forcible?

No. LAPD files Battery With Sexual Contact and Rape, Forcible as separate published types. This page covers only the 1,379 battery-with-sexual-contact rows. Adding the types without disclosure mixes official labels. Use each type hub if you need both series. Keep 1,379 separate from the Rape, Forcible hub.

Does a report mean a conviction?

No. Public incident rows are reports. They can exist without an arrest, after a case is declined, or if a report is later updated. The 1,379 count is report volume among 400,500 indexed Los Angeles incidents. Court outcomes live in other systems. This page does not describe individual cases.

Are survivor addresses shown on the map?

LAPD's public extract uses coarse block-level ranges, not street-number addresses of survivors. Treat geography as coarse on purpose. The type table and Los Angeles hub should be used for aggregate report location as published, not to identify people. The 1,379-row map uses LAPD block ranges, not survivor street addresses.