Crime in Cincinnati

Under the judgement of William McMillan, informally appointed justice of the peace, one Patrick Grimes was sentenced to twenty-nine lashes after being caught stealing cucumbers.

That occurred during the first year of the settlement, then still named "Losantiville", when food and other resources were extremely scarce.

When a second crime was reported to Judge McMillan, the accused fled to the fort for refuge, and the commander ordered Losantiville's court to renounce its jurisdiction.

In August 1788, the Northwest Territory legislature, meeting in Marietta, had enacted an enabling act creating a Court of Quarter Sessions for the region, and local residents quickly took advantage of the law's provisions; William McMillan was named one of the court's first judges.

[3] Overall violent crime reached an all-time low in 2022; rape and robbery went up that year, while homicides and aggravated assaults decreased.

This is a graph of part one crimes that were reported from 2000 to 2019. Part one crimes consist of homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, arson, burglary, larceny, and motor vehicle theft.