2010 Annual UCR Report
Clearance rate for 2010: 41.4%
Total Offenses reported: 700
Clearances by Arrest: 193
Clearances by Exception: 97
2011 Annual UCR Report
Clearance rate for 2011: 40.6%
Total Offenses reported: 747
Clearances by Arrest: 189
Clearances by Exception: 115
Residential Burglary
Business Burglary
Auto Burglary
Sub-Total
Homicide
Sex Offense
Robbery
Stolen Vehicle
Total
126 125
49 54
153 89
1%
-9%
42%
328 268 18%
2
6
13
13
0
4
22
24
200%
33%
-41%
-46%
362 318 14%
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The Uniform Crime Reports are published by the United States Department of
Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR)
Program. The UCR Program is a nationwide, cooperative statistical effort of over
18,000 city, university and college, county, state, tribal, federal, and other law
enforcement agencies who voluntarily report data on crimes brought to their attention. Since 1930, the FBI has administered the UCR Program. The program's primary objective is to generate reliable information for use in law enforcement administration, operation, and management. However, over the years, UCR data have become one of the country's leading social indicators. Criminologists, sociologists, legislators, municipal planners, the media, and other students of criminal justice use the data for varied research and planning purposes.
The UCR Program consists of four data collections:
Offense and arrest data from the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS) and the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)
Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) Program
Hate Crime Statistics Program
Cargo Theft Reporting Program
The FBI publishes annual data from these collections in Crime in the United States,
Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted, and Hate Crime Statistics.
UCR crime categories
For reporting purposes, criminal offenses are divided into two major groups: Part I offenses and Part II offenses.
In Part I, the UCR indexes reported incidents in two categories: violent and property crimes. Aggravated assault, forcible rape, murder, and robbery are classified as violent while arson, burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft are classified as property crimes. These are reported via the document named
Return A - Monthly Return of Offenses Known to the Police. Part 1 crimes are collectively known as Index crimes, this name is used because the crimes are considered quite serious, tend to be reported more reliably than others, and are reported directly to the police and not to a separate agency (ex- IRS) that doesn't necessarily contribute to the UCR.
In Part II, the following categories are tracked: simple assault, curfew offenses and loitering, embezzlement, forgery and counterfeiting, disorderly conduct, driving under the influence, drug offenses, fraud, gambling, liquor offenses, offenses against the family, prostitution, public drunkenness, runaways, sex offenses, stolen property, vandalism, vagrancy, and weapons offenses.
Two property reports are also included with the Return A. The first is the Property
Stolen by Classification report. This report details the number of actual crimes of each type in the Return A and the monetary value of property stolen in conjunction with that crime. Some offenses are reported in greater detail on this report than on the Return A. For example, on the Report A, burglaries are divided into three categories: Forcible Entry, Unlawful Entry - No Force, and Attempted
Forcible Entry. On the Property Stolen by Classification report, burglaries are divided into six categories based on location type and the time of the offense.
Offenses are counted in residences with offense times of 6pm to 6am, 6am to
6pm and Unknown Time and Non-residences with the same three time groupings.
The second property report is the Property Stolen by Type and Value report. The monetary value of both stolen and recovered property are totaled and classified as one of eleven property types:
Currency, Notes, Etc.
Jewelry and Precious Metals
Clothing and furs
Locally Stolen Motor Vehicles
Office equipment
Televisions, Radios, Stereos, Etc.
Firearms
Household Goods
Consumable Goods
Livestock
Miscellaneous