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Table 65

Arrests

Suburban Areas1

Persons Under 15, 18, 21, and 25 Years of Age, 2019

[5,820 agencies; 2019 estimated population 97,421,942]

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 2,713,281 61,425 194,552 422,402 748,490 2.3 7.2 15.6 27.6
Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter 2,251 20 162 512 876 0.9 7.2 22.7 38.9
Rape2 6,183 476 1,196 1,946 2,625 7.7 19.3 31.5 42.5
Robbery 15,584 814 3,681 6,407 8,560 5.2 23.6 41.1 54.9
Aggravated assault 86,417 2,671 7,221 13,350 23,324 3.1 8.4 15.4 27.0
Burglary 40,785 1,644 5,259 9,236 13,844 4.0 12.9 22.6 33.9
Larceny-theft 235,319 6,746 23,911 46,778 72,033 2.9 10.2 19.9 30.6
Motor vehicle theft 19,436 766 3,102 4,896 7,130 3.9 16.0 25.2 36.7
Arson 2,198 297 564 707 878 13.5 25.7 32.2 39.9
Violent crime3 110,435 3,981 12,260 22,215 35,385 3.6 11.1 20.1 32.0
Property crime3 297,738 9,453 32,836 61,617 93,885 3.2 11.0 20.7 31.5
Other assaults 251,819 16,274 36,977 53,514 79,732 6.5 14.7 21.3 31.7
Forgery and counterfeiting 13,438 38 263 1,606 3,250 0.3 2.0 12.0 24.2
Fraud 33,686 300 1,146 3,440 7,328 0.9 3.4 10.2 21.8
Embezzlement 3,697 11 147 709 1,206 0.3 4.0 19.2 32.6
Stolen property; buying, receiving, possessing 23,275 434 2,118 4,363 7,155 1.9 9.1 18.7 30.7
Vandalism 44,333 3,743 8,900 13,550 18,865 8.4 20.1 30.6 42.6
Weapons; carrying, possessing, etc. 38,587 1,464 4,290 8,400 14,168 3.8 11.1 21.8 36.7
Prostitution and commercialized vice 3,510 9 39 236 689 0.3 1.1 6.7 19.6
Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution) 10,967 938 1,953 2,813 3,692 8.6 17.8 25.6 33.7
Drug abuse violations 443,360 4,823 25,926 81,083 146,598 1.1 5.8 18.3 33.1
Gambling 822 26 118 189 256 3.2 14.4 23.0 31.1
Offenses against the family and children 27,274 204 664 1,407 3,203 0.7 2.4 5.2 11.7
Driving under the influence 310,392 34 1,493 14,724 57,324 * 0.5 4.7 18.5
Liquor laws 44,448 1,051 7,208 26,602 29,486 2.4 16.2 59.8 66.3
Drunkenness 66,799 170 996 5,045 12,630 0.3 1.5 7.6 18.9
Disorderly conduct 80,244 6,341 15,573 21,921 30,718 7.9 19.4 27.3 38.3
Vagrancy 3,214 17 55 264 562 0.5 1.7 8.2 17.5
All other offenses (except traffic) 901,402 10,937 37,938 95,040 198,662 1.2 4.2 10.5 22.0
Suspicion 196 1 7 19 51 0.5 3.6 9.7 26.0
Curfew and loitering law violations 3,645 1,176 3,645 3,645 3,645 32.3 100.0 100.0 100.0
  • 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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