Violent crime includes murder, sexual assault, robbery and aggravated assault.
This report also compares the crime rate in 1998 to rates in previous years and, for this year only, to other parts of the city of Chicago. Since 1991, the number of robberies, the most common violent crime, has declined 48 percent. Four homicides were reported in 1998 and one homicide in 1997. Fourteen sexual assaults were reported in 1998, the same number as reported in 1997. This is the lowest number of sexual assaults on record.