About Crime in the United States, 2010
About Crime in the United States, 2010
Since 1996, editions of Crime in the United States have been available on the FBI’s Web site www.fbi.gov, first in Portable Document Format (PDF) files, and more recently in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) files. The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program staff are committed to improving their annual publications so that the data they collect can better meet the needs of law enforcement, criminologists, sociologists, legislators, municipal planners, the media, and other students of criminal justice who use the statistics for varied administrative, research, and planning purposes. For more information about how the UCR Program collects data, see About the Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
Data provided
Crime in the United States, 2010, presents data tables containing information on the topics listed below. Data users can download Microsoft Excel spreadsheets of the data tables and Adobe PDFs of most of the texts shown.
Offenses Known to Law Enforcement—Includes information about violent crime offenses (murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault) and property crime offenses (burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson).
Expanded offense data—Provides additional data that the program collects on the eight offenses. Depending on the offense, these details may include the type of weapon and the type and value of items stolen. For the offense of murder, expanded homicide data include information about murder victims, offenders, and circumstances that are collected as supplemental homicide data.
Clearances—Furnishes information about crimes “solved” either by arrest or exceptional means.
Persons Arrested—Provides the number of arrests made by law enforcement and the age, gender, and race of arrestees for the 28 offenses (see Offense Definitions) for which the UCR Program publishes arrest data.
Police Employee Data—Supplies information regarding sworn officers and civilian law enforcement personnel.
Agencies contributing data
The table below shows the number of law enforcement agencies contributing data to the UCR Program within each population group for 2010. Information published in Crime in the United States, 2010, reflects data from these agencies.
Population Group | Number of Agencies | Population Covered |
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I (250,000 inhabitants and more) | 75 | 57,354,512 |
II (100,000 to 249,999 inhabitants) | 204 | 30,475,928 |
III (50,000 to 99,999 inhabitants) | 477 | 32,657,104 |
IV (25,000 to 49,999 inhabitants) | 867 | 29,867,508 |
V (10,000 to 24,999 inhabitants) | 1,928 | 30,605,315 |
VI (Less than 10,000 inhabitants) 1, 2 | 9,434 | 26,499,453 |
VIII (Nonmetropolitan County)2 | 3,032 | 30,180,370 |
IX (Metropolitan County)2 | 2,091 | 71,105,348 |
Total | 18,108 | 308,745,538 |
1Includes universities and colleges to which no population is attributed.
2Includes state police to which no population is attributed.
National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) participation
In 2010, 29.4 percent of state programs and the District of Columbia reported all of their crime statistics via the NIBRS. This represented 28 percent of the U.S. population covered by UCR participants and accounted for 27 percent of all crime reported to the UCR Program. Thirty-six states are currently certified to report via the NIBRS. Among agencies within those states, more than 40 percent reported all of their statistics via the NIBRS.
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What you won’t find in this publication
Rankings by crime levels—Any comparisons of crime among different locales should take into consideration numerous other factors besides the areas’ crime statistics. Therefore, the UCR Program does not provide rankings of localities by crime levels. Variables Affecting Crime provides more details concerning the proper use of UCR statistics.
Information about unreported crime—Crime in the United States features data collected from law enforcement agencies regarding only those offenses known to police. However, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), another agency within the Department of Justice, administers the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). Using data from the NCVS, the BJS publishes information regarding crimes not reported to the police. For more information about the NCVS and how its data differ from information presented in Crime in the United States, see The Nation’s Two Crime Measures.
County crime totals and “raw data”—Crime in the United States offers crime data from local and county law enforcement agencies in separate tables. These data, which are also presented individually within a county (Crime by County), and other 2010 “raw data” from the UCR Program’s master files will be available sometime after the release of the 2010 publication. For more information, contact the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division via e-mail at cjis_comm@leo.gov.
Special studies—In previous years, Crime in the United States included special studies analyzing UCR data. Such studies are now released separately from the publication as monographs on www.fbi.gov.
Crime data for 2011—Preliminary statistics for January through June 2011 will be available on the Web in the fall of 2011 and replaced with preliminary data for all of 2011 in the spring of 2012. Crime in the United States, 2011, will be published on the Web in the fall of 2012.
Suggested reference citation
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Expanded Offense Data Tables
- Robbery Table 1
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- Robbery Table 3
- Aggravated Assault Table
- Larceny-theft Table
- Motor Vehicle Theft Table
- Arson Table 1
- Arson Table 2
Expanded Homicide Data Tables
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Table 1 - Expanded Homicide Data
Table 2 - Expanded Homicide Data
Table 3 - Expanded Homicide Data
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Table 10 - Expanded Homicide Data
Table 11 - Expanded Homicide Data
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