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Table 26, Data Declaration

Percent of Offenses Cleared by Arrest or Exceptional Means, by Geographic Region and Division, 2005

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

General comments

• This table provides the number of offenses and the percentage of those offenses cleared by arrest or exceptional means by geographic region and division.
• This table furnishes national clearance data and clearance data broken down for the Nation’s four regions.
• This table lists the number of agencies and the 2005 estimated population for all agencies and for each region and division.

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.

Regions and divisions

The U.S. Census Bureau has established the four regions of the United States along with their nine subdivisions which are used by the UCR Program compiling the Nation’s crime data. The following table lists the 50 states and the District of Columbia arranged according to the regions and divisions of the United States.

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.