Robbery
by State, Types of Weapons, 2008
The FBI collects these data through the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program.
General comments
- This table provides the types of weapons used in robbery offenses. The data are based on aggregated data from agencies within each state for which weapon information was reported to the FBI. The table includes the number of agencies that submitted data by state and the population covered by those agencies.
- The FBI received limited weapon data from Illinois.
Methodology
- The data used in creating this table were from all law enforcement agencies that submitted complete offense reports for 12 months in 2008.
- The weapon totals are aggregated from all robbery offense data for which the FBI received weapon breakdowns.
Population estimation
For the 2008 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 2007 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 2007 Census population estimate to derive the agency’s 2008 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.