Rape, Forcible reports in Los Angeles

A sensitive type, counted as reports

Rape, Forcible on the LAPD extract is the type LAPD assigned when the report was written. Battery With Sexual Contact is a separate published type on the same city feed; the two should not be added together without saying so. The 1,192 figure is a row count. It is not a count of unique survivors, unique suspects, or prosecuted cases.

Sexual assault 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 1,192 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 "Rape, Forcible." LocalCrimeVault does not rewrite that string. Among 400,500 Los Angeles incidents, Rape, Forcible is about 0.3 percent. 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.

Public description fields are often 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 1,192 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 Rape, Forcible with Battery With Sexual Contact 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 Rape, Forcible.

What 1,192 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 Rape, Forcible.

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 Rape, Forcible type hub is the overlay for these 1,192 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 1,192.

Cite 1,192 as Los Angeles Police Department incident rows with published type Rape, Forcible among 400,500 city reports (about 0.3 percent). Keep Battery With Sexual Contact on its own hub. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify charges and does not add graphic case detail. Record the 1,192 / 400,500 harvest pair. Geography must stay coarse.

Citing a sensitive type at aggregate level only

Hospital forensic exams, rape-crisis hotlines, and court caseloads overlap imperfectly. They are not merged into 1,192. If your question is service volume, use those systems. If your question is how many incident rows LAPD labeled Rape, Forcible, 1,192 is the packet fact.

Geography must stay coarse. Block-level ranges are privacy-preserving on purpose. Do not treat a pin as a household or workplace. 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 1,192. If a later harvest moves the 1,192 integer among 400,500 city reports, the new snapshot is a new citation.

Questions

How many Rape, Forcible reports are in the Los Angeles index?

This extract lists 1,192 Los Angeles incidents with published type Rape, Forcible, 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 Rape, Forcible the same as Battery With Sexual Contact?

No. LAPD files Rape, Forcible and Battery With Sexual Contact as separate published types. This page covers only the 1,192 Rape, Forcible rows. Adding the types without disclosure mixes official labels. Use each type hub if you need both series. Keep 1,192 separate from the Battery With Sexual Contact 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 1,192 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 1,192-row map uses LAPD block ranges, not survivor street addresses.