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How many persons are arrested or charged with felony crimes in the U.S.? This is a question the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) frequently receives and unfortunately cannot completely answer. BJS publishes Felony Defendants in Large Urban Counties every two years, providing the number of persons charged with a felony in a sample of the nation’s 75 most populous counties. In 2004, an estimated 57,500 defendants were charged with a felony in those counties. See Felony Defendants in Large Urban Counties, 2004. |