Percent of Offenses Cleared by Arrest or Exceptional Means
by Geographic Region and Division, 2007
The FBI collects these data through the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR)
Program.
General comments
- This table provides the number of violent crimes and property crimes
with a
breakdown of the offenses known to law enforcement 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 meeting the criteria for inclusion
in this
table and the 2007 estimated population for those agencies by 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 2007.
- 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 nine subdivisions that the UCR Program uses to compile 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.
NORTHEASTERN STATES
New England
Connecticut
Maine
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Vermont
Middle Atlantic
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
MIDWESTERN STATES
East North Central
Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
Ohio
Wisconsin
West North Central
Iowa
Kansas
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
North Dakota
South Dakota
SOUTHERN STATES
South Atlantic
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Maryland
North Carolina
South Carolina
Virginia
West Virginia
East South Central
Alabama
Kentucky
Mississippi
Tennessee
West South Central
Arkansas
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Texas
WESTERN STATES
Mountain
Arizona
Colorado
Idaho
Montana
Nevada
New Mexico
Utah
Wyoming
Pacific
Alaska
California
Hawaii
Oregon
Washington
Population estimation
For the 2007 population estimates used in this table, the FBI computed
individual rates of growth from one year to the next for every city/town
and county using 2000 decennial population counts and 2001 through 2006
population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Each agency's rates of
growth were averaged; that average was then applied and added to its 2006
Census population estimate to derive the agency’s 2007 population estimate.
If you have questions about this table
Contact the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division via e-mail
at cjis_comm@leo.gov or by telephone
at (304) 625-4995.