Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Statistics on Law and Order containing data on crime, traffic accidents, firearm registration, correctional facility, population, fire, and court activities in fiscal year 2020 are reported by the Department of Public Safety (DPS) and included in the 2020 American Samoa Statical Yearbook released Wednesday by the Commerce Department.

And for a point of interest from the yearbook: data shows that the inmate population in FY 2020 are mostly U.S Nationals and this is the same in FY 2019.

Under subsection, “Law Enforcement”, the yearbook states that DPS reported 223, Part I offenses in FY 2020. Part I Offenses include eight crime categories: murder and non-negligent homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, larceny-theft, and arson.

The most crimes committed during FY 2020 were larceny, burglary, and assault — in both the first and second degree.

Data in the yearbook reported 97 larceny cases, 64 burglary and 39 cases for assault. Other data shows 6 cases for arson, 3 on criminal homicide, 12 cases on “forcible rape” and two robbery.

Interestingly: no cases were reported in FY 2020 for motor vehicle theft.

In the yearbook, DPS also reported 1,814 Part II Offenses in FY2020, an increase of 10.4% from FY2019.

Part II Offenses are other assaults, forgery and counterfeiting, fraud, embezzlement, stolen property (buying, receiving possessing), vandalism, weapons (carrying, possessing, etc.), drug abuse violations, gambling, offenses against the family and children, driving under the influence, liquor laws, drunkenness, disorderly conduct, vagrancy, suspicion, curfew, loitering laws (person under age 18), runaways (person under age 18) and “all other offenses” not specified.

Some interesting data the yearbook includes 53 cases of DUI, 26 cases of weapons, and 103 cases in property damage/ vandalism.

“All other offenses” with 751 cases is the top-crime for Part II Offense, followed by “disorderly conduct”, with 697 cases, according to data in the yearbook as reported by DPS.

Of the Juvenile population, the yearbook said Part I Offenses reported in FY2020 amounted to 77 while Part II Offenses registered at 127. The two leading offenses by the Juvenile population for all crimes reported were Assault and Disorderly Conduct.

For traffic accidents, it went up by about 19% in FY 2020. There were 664 traffic accidents reported in FY2020 compared to 557 in FY2019. A total of 57 people suffered injuries in those accidents and resulting in 3 fatalities.

Furthermore, a total of 115 firearms were registered in FY2020: 53 shot guns, 11 pistols and 51 rifles (22 Cal), according to yearbook, which states that shot guns include 12, 16 and 20 gauge models, while pistols include 22, 38, and 45 caliber models. Pistols are only used for police work.

For the inmate population, average monthly in FY2020 was 240 compared to a monthly average of 210 in FY2019.

Data included in the yearbook shows that in FY 2020 the territory’s inmate population was 221 while it was 204 in FY 2019.

And the data shows the highest number of inmates by nationality in FY2020 are U.S. nationals followed by Samoa at 48, Tonga at 12 and “others” at 51.

In FY 2019, U.S. Nationals also top the list of inmates by nationality at 105 followed by Samoa at 56, Tongan 15 and “others” 28.

The yearbook also provided data on fires for FY 2020 as reported by the Fire Bureau, which was at the time, a division of DPS, and is now the Department of Corrections as of this year.

 According to the yearbook there were 103 fires reported in FY2020: 94 Residential — with 22 fires consider “major”; six Commercial — with 3 consider “major”; and 3 industrial — all considered minor.

According to the yearbook, High Court of American Samoa reported 353 cases filed in FY2020. Of the total cases, 141 of them were criminal ones, followed by 72 divorce cases.

Additionally, there were 957 cases pending from FY2019 and 297 cases were disposed of in FY 2020.