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If five cars are broken into at a ball game and police suspect the same person or persons in each instance, he explained, the breaking may be reported by some police department^ as a single crime and by others as five separate violations. "A lot of smaller police departments don't report crimes properly. They treat everything as a single offense.”

In the case of the Rappahannock sheriffs department, said Baines who has worked closely with law enforcement here for the past nine years, all five hypothetical break-ins would be reported separately.

Agreeing with sheriff Buntin’s reaction to the crime statistics. Baines noted that larceny of weekend residences is the county’s most frequently committed crime and the most difficult to solve, primarily because of the delay between the time the larceny is committed and the time it's discoverd and reported by part-time residents.

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