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Table 65

Arrests

Suburban Areas1

Persons Under 15, 18, 21, and 25 Years of Age, 2018

[6,757 agencies; 2018 estimated population 106,796,972]

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 3,100,251 65,580 225,277 512,196 912,432 2.1 7.3 16.5 29.4
Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter 2,630 23 197 590 1,016 0.9 7.5 22.4 38.6
Rape2 6,816 513 1,239 2,090 2,892 7.5 18.2 30.7 42.4
Robbery 18,132 658 3,619 6,936 9,649 3.6 20.0 38.3 53.2
Aggravated assault 99,344 3,074 8,434 15,649 27,725 3.1 8.5 15.8 27.9
Burglary 48,234 1,924 6,323 11,414 17,148 4.0 13.1 23.7 35.6
Larceny-theft 269,196 7,451 27,587 55,027 85,272 2.8 10.2 20.4 31.7
Motor vehicle theft 22,555 761 3,118 5,353 8,186 3.4 13.8 23.7 36.3
Arson 2,531 396 660 849 1,042 15.6 26.1 33.5 41.2
Violent crime3 126,922 4,268 13,489 25,265 41,282 3.4 10.6 19.9 32.5
Property crime3 342,516 10,532 37,688 72,643 111,648 3.1 11.0 21.2 32.6
Other assaults 286,906 16,568 40,149 59,582 91,100 5.8 14.0 20.8 31.8
Forgery and counterfeiting 16,328 53 332 2,159 4,267 0.3 2.0 13.2 26.1
Fraud 38,972 252 1,118 3,927 8,581 0.6 2.9 10.1 22.0
Embezzlement 4,072 5 143 720 1,330 0.1 3.5 17.7 32.7
Stolen property; buying, receiving, possessing 27,778 534 2,444 5,383 8,945 1.9 8.8 19.4 32.2
Vandalism 49,295 3,626 9,623 15,017 21,487 7.4 19.5 30.5 43.6
Weapons; carrying, possessing, etc. 42,873 1,594 4,735 9,262 15,868 3.7 11.0 21.6 37.0
Prostitution and commercialized vice 3,850 13 53 282 858 0.3 1.4 7.3 22.3
Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution) 14,380 1,229 2,621 3,857 5,111 8.5 18.2 26.8 35.5
Drug abuse violations 526,907 5,033 32,550 108,867 194,153 1.0 6.2 20.7 36.8
Gambling 674 2 38 116 206 0.3 5.6 17.2 30.6
Offenses against the family and children 32,385 302 923 1,903 4,242 0.9 2.9 5.9 13.1
Driving under the influence 349,935 35 1,738 17,420 67,727 * 0.5 5.0 19.4
Liquor laws 53,293 1,096 9,064 33,900 37,299 2.1 17.0 63.6 70.0
Drunkenness 80,130 199 1,161 5,955 15,796 0.2 1.4 7.4 19.7
Disorderly conduct 100,631 7,434 19,542 28,374 40,077 7.4 19.4 28.2 39.8
Vagrancy 3,619 62 209 436 750 1.7 5.8 12.0 20.7
All other offenses (except traffic) 993,863 11,454 43,015 112,457 236,992 1.2 4.3 11.3 23.8
Suspicion 292 5 12 41 83 1.7 4.1 14.0 28.4
Curfew and loitering law violations 4,630 1,284 4,630 4,630 4,630 27.7 100.0 100.0 100.0
  • 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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