Table 10

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Offenses Known to Law Enforcement
by State by Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties, 2008
[The data shown in this table do not reflect county totals but are the number of offenses reported by the sheriff's office or county police department.]

Metropolitan/Nonmetropolitan Counties	County	Violent crime	Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter	Forcible rape	Robbery	Aggravated assault	Property crime	Burglary	Larceny- theft	Motor vehicle theft	Arson¹
Metropolitan Counties	DeSoto	30	1	4	8	17	736	91	541	104	3
	Forrest	10	0	1	1	8	71	39	27	5	0
	Harrison	44	7	10	19	8	1,700	396	1,128	176	7
	Jackson	122	2	26	12	82	1,819	478	1,121	220	0
	Lamar	68	2	20	15	31	690	229	412	49	4
	Madison	40	4	7	6	23	410	119	250	41	2
	Marshall	75	0	2	13	60	603	230	315	58
	Rankin	40	0	3	5	32	784	216	538	30	4
	Tate	11	0	1	1	9	295	109	136	50	0
Nonmetropolitan Counties	Adams	51	1	3	3	44	575	149	378	48	6
	Bolivar	2	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1
	Choctaw	11	0	3	0	8	86	34	45	7	0
	Claiborne²		1	2	11		116	55	57	4	0
	Coahoma	10	1	0	2	7	128	62	53	13	3
	Greene	9	2	1	2	4	24	15	8	1	1
	Grenada	15	0	2	2	11	164	74	73	17	0
	Jefferson	38	0	1	1	36	50	17	33	0	2
	Lauderdale	38	1	11	12	14	524	236	252	36	3
	Leake	0	0	0	0	0	24	14	10	0	1
	Lee	64	0	5	7	52	670	265	372	33	8
	Leflore	104	1	6	7	90	505	234	261	10	2
	Lincoln	16	1	0	0	15	340	88	225	27	0
	Lowndes	75	3	20	10	42	476	151	296	29	7
	Oktibbeha	61	3	2	5	51	184	82	92	10	2
	Panola	46	1	1	2	42	498	243	231	24	0
	Pearl River	37	0	15	8	14	705	283	365	57	5
	Pike	23	2	1	3	17	469	189	246	34
	Sunflower	160	2	16	75	67	101	82	12	7	0
	Union	4	1	0	1	2	199	87	96	16	10
	Warren	21	2	5	4	10	305	104	171	30	1
	Washington	13	0	3	4	6	425	169	224	32	9
	Winston	8	0	0	2	6	13	8	3	2	0

¹ The FBI does not publish arson data unless it receives data from either the agency or the state for all 12 months of the calendar year.
² The FBI determined that the agency's data were overreported. Consequently, those data are not included in this table.

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