Table 25, Data Declaration
Percent of Offenses Cleared by Arrest or Exceptional Means, by Population Group, 2005
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The FBI collects these data through the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program.
General comments
- This table provides the number of offenses known to law enforcement and the percentage of those offenses that were cleared by arrest or exceptional means.
- This table furnishes national clearance data and clearances broken down by six city population groups, two county population groups, and suburban area.
- This table lists the number of agencies and the 2005 estimated population in each city grouping, county grouping, and suburban area.
- Not all agencies submit reports for arson to the FBI. As a result, the number of reports the FBI uses to compute the percent of offenses cleared for arson is less than the number it uses to compute the percent of offenses cleared for all other offenses.
- Suburban area includes law enforcement agencies in cities with less than 50,000 inhabitants and county law enforcement agencies that are within a Metropolitan Statistical Area.
- Suburban area excludes all metropolitan agencies associated with a principal city. The agencies associated with suburban areas also appear in other groups within this table.
Methodology
- The data used in creating this table were from all law enforcement agencies submitting at least 6 months of complete offense reports for 2005.
- The FBI bases percent cleared statistics on aggregated offense and clearance totals.
Population groups
The UCR Program uses the following population group designations:
Population Group |
Political Label |
Population Range |
I |
City |
250,000 and more |
II |
City |
100,000 to 249,999 |
III |
City |
50,000 to 99,999 |
IV |
City |
25,000 to 49,999 |
V |
City |
10,000 to 24,999 |
VI |
City1 |
Less than 10,000 |
VIII (Nonmetropolitan County) |
County2 |
N/A |
IX (Metropolitan County) |
County2 |
N/A |
1Includes universities and colleges to which no population is attributed.
2Includes state police to which no population is attributed.
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
Contact the Communications Unit of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division via e-mail at cjis_comm@leo.gov or by telephone at (304) 625-4995.