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For Immediate Release
October 17 ,
2005
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Washington D.C.
FBI National Press Office
(202) 324-3691
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Fact
Sheet for Crime in the United States, 2004
What follows
is a synopsis of data released today by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's
Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program in the annual publication Crime
in the United States.
Overview
Violent
crime
- Volume:
estimated 1.4 million offenses, declined 1.2 percent from the 2003 estimate.
- Rate:
465.5 violent crimes per 100,000 inhabitants, decreased 2.2 percent from
the 2003 rate.
- Clearances:
46.3 percent of reported violent crimes were cleared by arrest or exceptional
means.
- Arrests:
estimated 590,258, accounting for 4.2 percent of all estimated arrests
.
Property
crime
- Volume:
estimated 10.3 million offenses, declined 1.1 percent from the 2003 estimate.
- Rate:
3,517.1 property crimes per 100,000 inhabitants, decreased 2.1 percent
from the 2003 rate.
- Monetary
loss: estimated $16.1 billion
- Clearances:
16.5 percent of reported property crimes were cleared by arrest or exceptional
means.
- Arrests:
estimated 1,649,825, accounting for 11.8 percent of total estimated number
of arrests.
Violent
Crime
Murder
- Volume:
estimated 16,137 offenses, declined 2.4 percent from the 2003 estimate.
- Rate:
5.5 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, declined 3.3 percent from the 2003
rate.
- Victims:
90.2 percent were aged 18 and over: 78.0 percent were male.
- Offenders:
91.7 percent were aged 18 and over; 90.1 percent were male.
- Weapons:
70.3 percent were committed with firearms (of those, 77.9 percent with
handguns); 14.1 percent were committed with knives or cutting instruments;
personal weapons, such as hands, fists, or feet, were used in 7.0 percent;
blunt objects in 5.0 percent; and other weapons such as explosives or
poison were used in 3.6 percent of murders.
- Relationship:
76.8 percent of victims knew their killers; 23.2 percent were slain by
strangers; 33.0 percent of female victims were killed by their husbands
or boyfriends; 2.7 percent of male victims were killed by their
wives or girlfriends.
- Clearances:
62.6 percent of reported murders were cleared by arrest or exceptional
means.
- Arrests:
increased 3.9 percent when compared to the 2003 number.
- Arrestees:
89.3 percent were adults; 50.0 percent were under the age of 25;
88.4 percent were male; 49.4 percent were white.
Forcible
rape:
- Volume:
estimated 94,635 offenses, increased 0.8 percent from the 2003 estimate.
- Rate:
32.2 rapes per 100,000 in population, decreased 0.2 percent from the
2003 rate.
- Clearances:
41.8 percent of reported forcible rapes were cleared by arrest or exceptional
means.
- Arrests:
decreased 2.9 percent from the 2003 number.
- Arrestees:
83.7 percent were adults; 45.7 percent were under the age of 25; 65.3
percent were white.
Robbery
- Volume:
estimated 401,326 offenses, decreased 3.1 percent from the 2003 estimate.
- Rate:
136.7 robberies per 100,000 inhabitants, decreased 4.1 percent from
the 2003 rate.
- Weapons:
41.1 percent strong-arm, 40.6 firearms, 8.9 percent knives or cutting
instruments, and 9.4 percent other types of weapons.
- Monetary
loss: estimated $525 million, averaged $1,308 per offense.
- Location:
greatest proportion (42.8 percent) took place on streets and highways;
smallest percentage (2.4 percent) occurred in banks.
- Clearances:
26.2 percent of reported robberies were cleared by arrest or exceptional
means.
- Arrests:
increased 0.6 percent when compared to the 2003 number.
- Arrestees: 60.1
percent under the age of 25; 89.0 percent were male; 53.6
percent were black.
Aggravated
assault
- Volume:
estimated 854,911 offenses, declined 0.5 percent from the 2003 estimate.
- Rate:
291.1 aggravated assaults per 100,000 resident population, declined
1.5 percent from the 2003 rate.
- Weapons:
26.6 percent personal weapons; 19.3 percent firearms; 18.6 percent
knives or cutting instruments; 35.6 percent other dangerous weapons
- Clearances:
55.6 percent of reported aggravated assaults were cleared by arrest
or exceptional means.
- Arrests:
declined 2.0 percent when compared to the 2003 number.
- Arrestees:
40 percent were under the age of 25; 79.3 percent were male; 64.5 percent
were white.
Property
Crime
Burglary
- Volume:
estimated 2.1 million offenses, declined 0.5 percent from the 2003
estimate.
- Rate:
729.9 burglaries per 100,000 inhabitants, decreased 1.5 percent from
the 2003 rate.
- Type:
61.4 percent forcible entry; 32.4 percent unlawful entry; 6.2 percent
attempted forcible entry.
- Location:
65.7 percent were of residences; 34.3 percent were of nonresidential
structures.
- Monetary
loss: estimated $3.5 billion; averaged $1,642 per offense.
- Clearances:
12.9 percent of reported burglaries were cleared by arrest or exceptional
means.
- Arrests:
decreased 0.3 percent when compared to the 2003 number.
- Arrestees:
85.7 percent were male, of these 28.6 percent were juveniles (under
age 18); 70.9 percent of burglary arrestees were white.
Larceny-theft
- Volume:
estimated 7 million offenses, decreased 1.1 percent from the 2003 estimate.
- Rate:
2,365.9 larceny-thefts per 100,000 population, declined 2.1 percent
from the 2003 rate.
- Type:
25.3 percent were thefts from motor vehicles; 14.5 percent shoplifting;
12.4 percent thefts from buildings; 10.8 percent thefts of motor vehicle
accessories; 3.6 percent thefts of bicycles ; 0.7 percent theft from
coin-operated machines; 32.6 percent all others.
- Monetary
loss: estimated $5.1 billion; averaged $727 per offense.
- Clearances:
18.3 percent of reported larceny-thefts were cleared by arrest or exceptional
means.
- Arrests:
increased 1.0 percent when compared to the 2003 number.
- Arrestees:
53.8 percent were under the age of 25; 29.8 percent of females arrested
were under age 18; 61.7 percent were male; 69.1 percent were white.
Motor
vehicle theft
- Volume:
estimated 1.2 million offenses, declined 1.9 percent from the 2003
estimate.
- Rate:
421.3 motor vehicle thefts per 100,000 inhabitants, decreased 2.9 percent
from the 2003 rate.
- Type:
72.8 percent stolen automobiles; 18.4 percent stolen trucks and buses;
8.7 percent other types of stolen vehicles.
- Monetary
loss: estimated $7.6 billion; averaged $6,108 per offense.
- Clearances:
13.0 percent of reported motor vehicle thefts were cleared by arrest
or exceptional means.
- Arrests:
down 1.4 percent when compared to the 2003 number.
- Arrestees:
59.9 were under the age of 25; 82.9 percent were male; 63.4 percent
were white.
Arson
- Volume:
13,286 law enforcement agencies reported 68,245 offenses, with supplemental
data provided for 63,215 offenses.
- Rate:
28.2 arson offenses per 100,000 inhabitants.
- Type:
44.6 percent were structural arson; 30.2 percent were mobile arson;
25.2 percent were other types of property.
- Monetary
loss: averaged $12,017 per offense.
- Clearances:
17.1 percent of reported arson offenses were cleared by arrest or exceptional
means.
- Arrests:
estimated 15,557, decreased 1.8 percent when compared to the 2003 estimate.
- Arrestees:
67.6 percent were under age 25; 50.2 percent were under age 18; 83.5
percent were male; 77.0 percent were white.
Arrests
- Estimated
at slightly more than 14 million.
- Rate:
4,777.2 arrests per 100,000 inhabitants.
- Arrestees: 84.1
percent were adults, increased 1.5 percent when compared to the
2003 number; 76.2 percent were male; 70.5 percent were white. Arrests
of juveniles (individuals under age 18) decreased 1.9 percent when
compared to the 2003 number.
Hate
Crime
- 12,711
agencies voluntarily contributing hate crime data, of those, 2,046 submitted
incident reports.
- 7,649
incidents involving 9,035 offenses, 9,528 victims, and 7,145 known
offenders.
- 52.9
percent of all reported single-bias incidents were motivated by racial
bias.
Law Enforcement Personnel
Data
- 14,254
city, county, state, tribal law enforcement agencies submitted employee
data.
- 675,734
sworn officers and 294,854 civilians provided service to more than
278 million U.S. inhabitants.
- 88.4
percent of sworn law enforcement officers were male.
- 62.1
percent of civilian law enforcement personnel were female.
- 57
law enforcement officers were feloniously killed and 82 were killed
in accidents.
Special
studies
From
1994-2003, arrests of juveniles for drug abuse violations involving all drug
types increased 22.9 percent. In 1994, whites accounted for 60.6 percent
of juveniles arrested for drug abuse violations; in 2003, white accounted
for 74.9 percent of juveniles arrested for drug abuse violations. Male
juveniles were more often arrested for drug abuse violations than were female
juveniles; however, female juveniles were arrested at a younger age than
male juveniles.
With
infant victimizations, the baby is usually assaulted in a private location
by a relative or someone in a relationship of trust with the household members. Infants
are rarely the solitary victim in an attack. The perpetrator most often
uses personal weapons (i.e., hands, fists, feet) in the attack. Infants
are much more likely to sustain serious or multiple injuries than other-aged
victims present in the same incident.
Crime
in the United States, 2004, is available on the FBI's Internet site
at http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm.
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