Table 29, Data Declaration

Estimated Number of Arrests, United States, 2005

The FBI collects these data through the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program.

General comments

This table provides the estimated number of arrests for 29 separate UCR offenses for the United States. This is the only table in this publication which supplies estimated numbers for arrests.

Methodology

The data used in creating the estimates for this table were from all law enforcement agencies that provided data to the UCR Program (including those submitting less than 12 months of complete arrest data for 2005).

Arrest estimation

The arrest totals presented are national estimates based on the arrest statistics of all law enforcement agencies that provided data to the UCR Program (including those submitting less than 12 months of data).
The estimated total number of arrests in this table is the sum of estimated arrest volumes for each of the 28 offenses, not including suspicion.
The arrest figure for each of the individual offenses in this table is the sum of the estimated volumes within each of the eight population groups. (See the Area Definitions.)
The FBI calculated each of the eight population group's arrest estimates by dividing the reported volume figures (as shown in Table 31) by the contributing agencies' jurisdictional populations. The resulting figure was then multiplied by the total population for each population group as estimated by the Program.

Population estimation

The FBI calculated 2005 state growth rates using revised 2004 state/national population estimates and 2005 provisional state/national population estimates provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. The FBI then estimated population figures for city and county jurisdictions by applying the 2005 state growth rate to the updated 2004 U.S. Census Bureau data.

If you have questions about this table

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