Child Abuse (physical) - Simple Assault reports in Los Angeles

A sensitive type, counted as reports

Child Abuse (physical) - Simple Assault on the LAPD extract is the type LAPD assigned when the report was written. Other child-related or aggravated-assault strings on the same city feed should not be added to 1,281 without saying so. The 1,281 figure is a row count. It is not a count of unique children, unique caregivers, or dependency-court cases.

Child-welfare agencies keep separate referral files. Those systems are not a packet fact, and this page does not invent a "true total" of harm. The honest statistic is 1,281 public LAPD incident rows among 400,500 indexed Los Angeles reports. Some events never appear in police files; some reports are later unfounded or recoded.

The official published label is "Child Abuse (physical) - Simple Assault." LocalCrimeVault does not rewrite that string. Simple assault in the label is LAPD's published wording, not a finding that an injury was minor.

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 children or households. Do not treat a pin as identifying a school, a home, or a family. 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. Children and caregivers are not named. The overlay is for date, coarse location, and report volume.

Share of the Los Angeles extract

At 1,281 reports, this type is a small share of 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 this simple-assault child-abuse label with other assault or family-violence types 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 carry this string.

What 1,281 is not

It is not a Department of Children and Family Services referral count, not a hospital pediatric-exam 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 Child Abuse (physical) - Simple Assault.

Los Angeles Police Department publishes the incidents through LA Open Data. LocalCrimeVault indexes types as filed. Children 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 Child Abuse (physical) - Simple Assault type hub is the overlay for these 1,281 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 1,281.

Cite 1,281 as Los Angeles Police Department incident rows with this published type among 400,500 city reports (about 0.3 percent). LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify charges and does not add graphic case detail. Record the 1,281 / 400,500 harvest pair. Geography must stay coarse. Do not treat this guide as a live dispatch feed or a child-welfare dashboard.

Hospital pediatric exams, child-welfare referrals, and dependency-court caseloads overlap imperfectly with police incident rows. They are not merged into 1,281. If your question is service volume, use those systems. If your question is how many incident rows LAPD labeled Child Abuse (physical) - Simple Assault, 1,281 is the packet fact. 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. Keep reports and convictions in separate sentences.

Questions

How many Child Abuse (physical) - Simple Assault reports are in Los Angeles?

This extract lists 1,281 Los Angeles incidents with published type Child Abuse (physical) - Simple Assault, 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 children, or a child-welfare caseload. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify LAPD charges.

Is this the same as every child-related police report in Los Angeles?

No. This page covers only rows whose published type is Child Abuse (physical) - Simple Assault (1,281 reports). Other assault, family, or child-related strings on the Los Angeles feed are separate. Mixing categories would inflate totals and blur what each LAPD string records. Use the city hub if you need the mix of all types against 400,500 reports.

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 1,281 count is report volume among 400,500 indexed Los Angeles incidents. Court and child-welfare outcomes live in other systems. This page does not describe individual cases.

Are children's addresses shown on the map?

LAPD's public extract uses coarse block-level ranges, not street-number addresses of children or households. 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 families. The 1,281-row map uses LAPD block ranges, not home street addresses.