CRIME IN THE U.S.
The Latest Stats Now Online
09/18/06
Violent crime
rose 2.3 percent; property crime fell 1.5 percent. That’s the nationwide
bottom line of our just published 2005 annual report
on crime.
Get all the stats here (and only here) through our improved, expanded, and
easier-to-use web format.
Among the other top-line numbers in Crime
in the U.S., 2005:
… Although violent crime totals grew over 2004, they have dropped
3.4 percent since 2001 and 17.6 percent since 1996;
… Burglaries—up 0.5 percent—were the only property crimes
to rise in 2005;
… Murders were up 3.4 percent and arrests of juveniles for murder
were up nearly 20 percent over 2004;
… Forcible rape decreased 1.2 percent, the only violent crime category
to fall;
… Property crime victims lost an estimated $16.5 billion last year;
… Of the 14.1 million arrests made by law enforcement in 2005, drug
violations accounted for more than any other offense.
… According to the Crime
Clock 2005,
a violent crime took place every 22.7 seconds and a property crime every 3.1
seconds in this country.
Here’s what else you can find in this report:
- Violent crime
data, including
murder, rape, robbery, and assault;
- Property crime
stats,
including burglary, larceny-theft, motor-vehicle theft, and arson;
- Expanded
offense information for eight categories of crime,
from the locations of robberies to the times of day of burglaries;
- The total number
of crimes solved by arrest or by exceptional means;
- A variety of information on
sworn police officers and civilian law enforcement;
- Crime totals reported by city
and state;
- National property and violent
crimes over the past two decades
- An explanation of how
this report differs from the Department of Justice’s
recent National Crime Victims Survey;
- Variables
impacting crime rates and why we don’t rank cities’ crime
levels;
- Why we’ve moved
entirely to an electronic publication;
- Want to print key documents? You can do that, too, through downloadable
files and spreadsheets.
What you won’t find in this year’s report:
- Hate crime statistics, which will be available later in the year;
- Special crime studies, which will be released as separate monographs;
- Stats for 2006: preliminary numbers for January-June 2006 will be available
on this website in December and final stats for all of 2006 in the fall of
2007.
Once again, our thanks to our law enforcement partners around the nation for
gathering and sharing the data in this report.
Resources: Crime in the U.S., 2005 |
How and when the FBI began collecting crime statistics
