Arrest Trends
City, 2006-2007
The FBI collects these data through the Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
General comments
- This 2-year trend table provides the number of persons arrested in cities in 2006 and 2007 and the percent change when the data for these 2 years are compared.
The table furnishes a breakdown of these data by juveniles (persons under age 18) and adults.
- City law enforcement agencies are defined as all agencies within Population Groups I–VI. (See Area Definitions.)
- These data represent the number of persons arrested; however, some persons may be arrested more than once during a year. Therefore, the statistics in this
table could, in some cases, represent multiple arrests of the same person.
Methodology
The data used in creating this table were from all city law enforcement agencies submitting 12 months of arrest data for both 2006 and 2007.
Population estimation
For the 2007 population estimates used in this table, the FBI computed individual rates of growth from one year to the next for every city/town and county using 2000 decennial population counts and 2001 through 2006 population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Each agency’s rates of growth were averaged; that average was then applied and added to its 2006 Census population estimate to derive the agency’s 2007 population estimate.
Population estimates for 2006 are based on the percent change in the state population from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2005 revised estimates and 2006 provisional estimates.
If you have questions about this table
Contact the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division via e-mail at
cjis_comm@leo.gov or by telephone at (304) 625‑4995.