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Table 65

Arrests

Suburban Areas1

Persons Under 15, 18, 21, and 25 Years of Age, 2015

[7,022 agencies; 2015 estimated population 111,227,944]

Offense charged Total all
ages
Number of persons arrested Percent of total all ages
Under 15 Under 18 Under 21 Under 25 Under 15 Under 18 Under 21 Under 25
TOTAL 3,484,757 77,999 288,994 678,212 1,212,762 2.2 8.3 19.5 34.8
Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter 2,713 17 153 586 1,128 0.6 5.6 21.6 41.6
Rape2 6,639 441 1,128 2,073 2,928 6.6 17.0 31.2 44.1
Robbery 21,909 667 3,879 8,085 12,121 3.0 17.7 36.9 55.3
Aggravated assault 102,190 2,839 8,633 17,157 31,647 2.8 8.4 16.8 31.0
Burglary 63,491 2,898 9,781 18,659 28,427 4.6 15.4 29.4 44.8
Larceny-theft 371,823 12,124 46,598 92,230 145,131 3.3 12.5 24.8 39.0
Motor vehicle theft 20,720 685 3,209 5,769 8,857 3.3 15.5 27.8 42.7
Arson 2,576 534 928 1,155 1,398 20.7 36.0 44.8 54.3
Violent crime3 133,451 3,964 13,793 27,901 47,824 3.0 10.3 20.9 35.8
Property crime3 458,610 16,241 60,516 117,813 183,813 3.5 13.2 25.7 40.1
Other assaults 327,735 16,320 43,261 68,458 111,045 5.0 13.2 20.9 33.9
Forgery and counterfeiting 19,346 31 374 2,444 5,500 0.2 1.9 12.6 28.4
Fraud 47,639 281 1,425 5,318 11,769 0.6 3.0 11.2 24.7
Embezzlement 5,050 14 174 966 1,880 0.3 3.4 19.1 37.2
Stolen property; buying, receiving, possessing 28,868 629 2,999 6,617 11,230 2.2 10.4 22.9 38.9
Vandalism 59,966 5,207 14,004 21,969 30,848 8.7 23.4 36.6 51.4
Weapons; carrying, possessing, etc. 39,175 1,996 5,433 10,398 17,186 5.1 13.9 26.5 43.9
Prostitution and commercialized vice 5,413 15 83 539 1,459 0.3 1.5 10.0 27.0
Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution) 16,661 1,437 3,027 4,654 6,455 8.6 18.2 27.9 38.7
Drug abuse violations 488,748 5,274 35,134 117,057 209,902 1.1 7.2 24.0 42.9
Gambling 982 10 76 168 233 1.0 7.7 17.1 23.7
Offenses against the family and children 37,718 477 1,248 2,534 6,048 1.3 3.3 6.7 16.0
Driving under the influence 387,181 47 2,236 23,685 88,995 * 0.6 6.1 23.0
Liquor laws 90,670 1,450 16,327 62,862 68,764 1.6 18.0 69.3 75.8
Drunkenness 109,959 209 1,760 10,205 26,240 0.2 1.6 9.3 23.9
Disorderly conduct 127,083 9,164 24,880 37,964 56,109 7.2 19.6 29.9 44.2
Vagrancy 5,324 88 270 752 1,385 1.7 5.1 14.1 26.0
All other offenses (except traffic) 1,086,779 13,015 53,802 147,673 317,801 1.2 5.0 13.6 29.2
Suspicion 277 9 50 113 154 3.2 18.1 40.8 55.6
Curfew and loitering law violations 8,122 2,121 8,122 8,122 8,122 26.1 100.0 100.0 100.0
  • 1 Suburban areas include law enforcement agencies in cities with less than 50,000 inhabitants and county law enforcement agencies that are within a Metropolitan Statistical Area. Suburban areas exclude all metropolitan agencies associated with a principal city.
  • 2 The rape figures in this table are aggregate totals of the data submitted based on both the legacy and revised Uniform Crime Reporting definitions.
  • 3 Violent crimes are offenses of murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes are offenses of burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson.
  • * Less than one-tenth of 1 percent.

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