There are a couple of different crimes in America, from property to violent crimes against people. In 2017, motor vehicle theft only took up 10 percent of the property crimes, burglary made up 18.2 percent, and larceny theft made up 71.7 percent of property crimes. The other type of crime that gets committed more than other crimes are violent crimes. Most people think that murder makes up a big percentage or it happens a lot due to different television shows, however in 2017, murder only maked up 1.4 percent of violent crimes. In 2017 rape only made up 8 percent of violent crimes. Robbery made up 25.6 percent and aggravated assault made up 65 percent. In 2017 there were 1.2 million violent crimes reported to UCR (this does not cover crimes that go unreported). Here is another way to look at that number, there was an estimated 382.9 violent crimes per 100,000 inhabitants in America. There was a 0.7 percent decrease in murders and a 4 percent drop in robberies from 2016 to 2017. Everyone talks about how crime is increasing and murder is increasing but the people who claims that will not look at crime from the last 10 years, they will just look at a abnormality that is inevitable to happen. Those murders could happen in one gang fight where multiple people die, it is not all different people across the city. The same report recorded that there were more than 7.7 million property crimes in 2017. Burglaries dropped 7.6 percent and larceny based thefts dropped 2.2 percent; meanwhile, motor vehicle thefts increased 0.8 percent from 2016 to 2017 in America. Property crimes tend to happen more than violent crimes. In 2017, studies showed that firearms were used in 72.6 percent of America’s murders, firearms were used in 40.6 percent of robberies, and 26.3 percent of aggravated assaults. Losses from property crimes came in at $15.3 billion dollars. That data includes damages to the house or property, or goods that were stolen. Property crimes came in at an estimated 2,362.2 per 100,000 inhabitants, which was a 3.6 percent drop from 2016. Property theft includes a person wanting and knowingly depriving an owner of his or her property permanently. There are so many different property crimes and a lot of different ways to commit property crimes that most of the time criminals go out to commit one crime, but during the commission of that one crime, they usually commit several different crimes that when they get caught the criminals usually get stuck doing a lot of time in prison. Arson is also a property crime, and that is setting fire either to another person’s house or their own house or property. Homicides are when during a felony or intended murder/death of another person. In Illinois there are several different types of homicide, first degree, second degree, involuntary manslaughter, and reckless homicide. -crispychicken711
I agree with you; the crimes rates are crazy but if we give the help they need they won’t commit those crime. Some people need to be in jail because the stuff they do is not okay. The rate goes up on aggravated assault because most people like to put their hands-on people or act crazy and do stupid stuff. Also, you mention that those could be gangs fighting with eachother and that could be the reason crime rates go up which I agree because when gangs go head for head they are just killing eachother.-babyblue711
This article was very interesting and very insightful. One thing I found interesting is how violent and property crime has went down in 2017 compared to 2016 data. I found this crazy because i knew it dropped from a larger scale so from 10 years difference but to have significant drops in crimes in just one year time is pretty impressive. Another thing that was interesting was that there were 1.2 million violent crimes reported in 2017. I like how it gives the amount of crime as a whole and then breaks it down really gives you the big picture. Not only did the article state that it broke it own even more talking about a 0.7 percent decrease in murders. And then it broke it down even further and talked about how there was a 4 percent decrease in robberies. Another thing i found interesting was that it also did what increased. This made the material more trustworthy and believable. It stated that aggravated assaults increased 1 percent. Then it talked about theft crimes and stated to break those down. The article stated that burglaries decreased 7.6 percent and it also stated that larceny-thefts decreased 2.2 percent. It also stated how motor vehicle thefts increased 0.8 percent.Which isn't that big of an increase though and that really surprised me I thought that thefts would be increasing over the years. Also something I found interesting is that even though population grows we still have been lowering the rate of violent crimes. For example in 1998 the population was 270,248,003 and number of violent crimes was 1,533,887 and the rate was 567.6, compare that with 2017 population was 325,719,178 and violent crimes was 1,247,321 and the rate was 382.9. That is crazy to actually see the difference, and it also is very interesting that not only was the rate decreased the population from then to 2017 has increased. I also found it interesting the tools they use to get the numbers they have. FBI’s UCR Program publishes this data both in the report and in the Crime Data Explorer (CDE) tool. The CDE tool provides a central place to search, sort, and evaluate crime data in a more user friendly format than individual reports. This is very interesting to think of and it also makes sense that they have a place to look up and evaluate crime. I can't help but think about crime that isn't reported though and how it could affect those numbers. -pizza711
-pizza711, Yes, I also found this article very interesting. I truly learned so much from it. I agree, I liked how the report used two different ways to demonstrate the numbers. They used rates and ratios to display the information which helped portray their research. This made all those numbers easier to digest and understand better. Even with that, I still find it hard to truly understand what those numbers look like in real life with real people. It truly is mind blowing. This article is very eye opening, with the amount of facts they shared. This report will challenge the reader’s to think about crime in a more productive way than before. -CoalRoller711
-Pizza711, I found this article to be very interesting as well! I had no idea how violent and property crime has went down in 2017 compared to 2016 data neither. I had no idea the burgulary decreased 7.6 and larceny-thefts decreased 2.2 percent and the officers only numbering 670,279 arrested 10.6 million people that year.
I also found it interesting that both violent and property crimes have decreased. I found it helpful, when they gave the amount of crime as a whole. I really liked that this article broke it down so that it was easier to understand what I was reading. While reading this article I noticed that a lot of the crimes, not all, have decreased compared to the 2016 report. For example, violent crimes, property crimes, and burglaries have decreased when compared to the 2016 data. While reading through this article, I also could not help think about the amount of crimes that go unreported each year. –Adventureflight711
This article was highly interesting as it applies to everyone. This was the first time I had read a crime report like this. I found it to be very informational. I actually enjoyed skimming through all the facts. The overall crime rate nationwide is at a decrease since 2016. However, the media tends to display that crime is at an all-time high, but this is far from the truth. The media is just trying to sell things you want to hear, things that peek our human intertest no matter how untrue it could be. We are led to believe crime is continuing to spiral out of control, when in fact the crime rate has declined. The murder rate has a 0.7 decrease since 2016. Which is an estimated 17,284 murders in the nation between 2016 and 2017. Only 1.4 of all crime committed were murders. I was surprised by this factual data. As I was unaware of the decrease in the murders between these two years. I think this is encouraging as we are creating a brighter future for our society. The total number of law enforcement agencies is 13,128 of which they employ 670,279 trusted officers. It is hard to fathom what those numbers look like in real life. I was not expecting those numbers to be that low in both agencies and officers. I thought the numbers would have been much higher than what they are now. The FBI has estimated that law enforcement nation wide has been 10.6 million arrests in 2017. I am impressed that the officers only numbering 670,279 arrested 10.6 million people that year. I am truly impressed with that. Violent crime has also decreased at a rate of 0.2 percent since 2016. Even with a percent as low as 0.2, there is still progress being made towards a safer society. However, there is still room for more improvement. I find it challenging to understand what 0.2 looks like in the community. Property crime has declined as well. It has declined at a quicker rate than violent crime, reaching 3.0 percent. That is an exciting improvement from the previous years. I was unaware of the extreme difference between violent crime rates and property crime rates. I found the different to be quite interesting. The rate of rape per 100,000 is surprising low, only consisting of 7.2. While aggravated assault is significantly higher which is estimated to be 29.3 percent of 100,000. With that number I am greatly amazed with. I was utterly ignorant of such a large difference in ratios between rape and aggravated assault. However, both rape and aggravated assault are at a decline since the prior year. Which is remarkable and encouraging, but it also displays areas of which needs some improvements. Through this article I learned many things, the number of officer and agencies that are used to reinforce the communities across our nation, how much the murder rate has decreased and how the violent crime has also been at a decline. I thought this article was very interesting, I now know more than I did before. -CoalRoller711
I agree that this information was very interesting and that it is very useful for people to know and understand. I think this because a lot of people thin crime has increased throughout the years. This is the result of media making everything blown up to get views, people wouldn't watch something about how crime is going down and it's a safer world out there. It also was a very different data that I have never seen before either. I also thought it was interesting how they even put the data the increased in there as well. It is a very good source of information about crime and I think more people should know about it. -pizza711
The article was very and interesting but easy to understand. In 2017 the most crime was arrogated assault. Which is an attempt to cause serious bodily injury to another or to cause serious bodily injury purposely, knowingly or recklessly, with an extreme indifference to the value of human life. I think a lot of people like to put their hands-on other people instead of killing them. At least murder wasn’t so popular and assault was. Another thing is the report also showed there were more than 7.7 million property crimes last year. Burglaries decreased 7.6 percent and larceny-thefts decreased 2.2 percent. Motor vehicle thefts increased 0.8 percent from 2016 to 2017. Meaning the crimes people are doing is either robbery, burglary, larceny, theft, motor vehicle theft, arson, shoplifting, and vandalism. To me like I said before I rather these people commit these crimes than harming someone or killing someone. Yes, it is not right to rob or take something from someone but I rather them take something from them, then take their whole life. It also states that in 1998 the population was 270,248,003 and number of violent crimes was 1,533,887 and the rate was 567.6, compare that with 2017 population was 325,719,178 and violent crimes was 1,247,321 and the rate was 382.9. The population continues to grow and the crime rate is still low which is very interesting. The estimated arrest rate for the United States in 2017 was 3,251.5 arrests per 100,000 inhabitants. The arrest rate for violent crime (including murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault) was 160.7 per 100,000 inhabitants, and the arrest rate for property crime (burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson) was 388.7 per 100,000 inhabitants. Its good that they are catching these people because they could be committing these crimes but most importantly they need to give these people some type of help, because if they don’t get help they may keep repeating these crimes.-babyblue711
I agree with you. I believe that we would rather have more people commit little crimes such as theft, and property crimes, instead of rape and murder. This then decreases the crime rate and less people are paranoid and scared. People believe they are more safe going out in public and don’t have to be so protective of their loved ones. And yes, the more crime committed, the more help that is needed or rehabilitation centers so the crimes don’t keep being repeated. Especially by the same offender, which occurs quite frequently. The more resources and programs that are offered to help the offenders, the less and less crime that is going to happen. These programs can even help people who are thinking about committing a crime. ProbdrinkingStar$’s711
This article was very informational and interesting, it gave plenty of detail and statistics on crime and how it has became less and less over the years. This article would be a good article for the general public to read to prove how the crime rate is decreasing. People are so scared and paranoid and think that the crime rate is at an all time high but in reality it is gradually getting lower and lower. This article touches base on all the different crimes that can be committed. Even property crimes are taken into consideration. Not all crimes are strictly based on the bad ones like murder, and sexual assault. Both violent crime and property crime declined in 2017 when compared with 2016 data. Many people believe that the crime rate is going up and that it is at an all time low. But because of the advanced technology we only hear the bad and not about the good. People are easily convinced that the crime rate is extremely high. Property crime has decreased three percent since 2016 and violent crime has decreased 0.2 percent. There were more than 1.2 million violent crimes reported to the Uniform Crime Reporting nationwide in 2017. This seems like a high number but it is really not, because of the population on the United States. Burglaries decreased 7.6 percent, this is also good for the public to know because people are constantly too focused on making sure they are safe because there are so many “bad people” out there. And yes, there are bad people but they are more good than bad. Beware of your surroundings, and make sure if you don’t feel safe, you either leave the situation you are in, or you get someone to help you. This simple report is too help others sully grasp and understand what is going on in their community and what is going on around them so they can watch their children carefully, or protect them when needed. I believe all police departments should report their crimes committed to the UCR so we are able to get the most accurate data we possibly can. Not all departments report their crime, and therefore skews our data that we have for the United States as a whole. The Crime Data Explorer is used to make the Uniform Crime Reporting easier to understand for the public. Some are still unable to get a clear understanding of what is saying and how it relates to the real world. This then leads people to believe that the crime rate is increasing and becoming a big problem throughout the country. People also know that not all crime is committed because people don’t want to get others in trouble or they are threatened and are not aloud to report it to the police or else they will be harmed or their loved ones. Some are also too embarrassed what happened and would rather live with the consequences that rat someone out. This article is very informative and can give great outlook on what is really going on. ProbdrinkingStar$’s711
Dear ProbdrinkingStar$’s711, I enjoyed reading you thoughts about this article. I also thought that it was a very interesting article and every informational with the data and statistic that it had. I think that if the news read this article let alone reported this on the new instead of what they report a lot more people wouldn’t be so scared and realize that crime is decreasing. I think that if this article was broadcasted more then people would have a better understanding of what is going on crime wise but also see the crime in their area. Then people wouldn’t be so paranoid and scared of crime and also wouldn’t believe the new that reports that crime is high right now.- mmmChicken711
The Uniform Crime Reporting, (URC) Program appears to be a comprehensive report. It does leave me with some questions however. It states the URC is developed by using data collected from over 16,000 law enforcement agencies across the U.S. How many law enforcement agencies are there in the U.S., and how do we gain access to agencies info to include in the URC? I think the amount of information provided is both useful and thorough. In viewing the brief youtube video, it appears that the information is further broken down by state. This is extremely useful in tracking crimes in certain areas. We can compare cities to rural areas, we can see that even though statistically, a percentage of crime is down over all, it may actually be up in say, Chicago or Peoria. With crimes being broken down to violent crimes and property crimes and now rape, it may be possible to isolate them even further and look for trends, patterns and opportunities to solve them. Another interesting and useful piece of information is the pie chart. It further breaks down the the category of crimes, for instance, in property crimes it shows the make of what completes the pie chart. The Crime Data Explorer, (CDE) provides an even further isolation and breakdown of crime statistics. This puts information at our fingertips. Once this is uploaded on a quarterly basis, as opposed to annual, which is when it is currently loaded now, that information will almost seem like real time. I found the information contained within the URC easy to access and easily understandable. With the only crime showing an increase, auto theft in the property crime category, I’m certain it is broken down to the most popular make, model and year of most popular stolen auto. Probably the most popular color as well. In accessing the actual UCR, I found navigating through all of the different categories extremely user friendly and highly informative. I found it interesting that the main page also mentions what information that will not be able to accessed or given out, that would be the clearance and arrest data for violent crimes. I also found that accessing the categories and tables. One of the troubling statistic is just the sheer number of violent crimes. Even though there was a slight decline in violent crimes from 2016, violent crimes down .02% according to the UCR in 2017, it is still frightening the amount of attacks on people. Of course because of social media, news and media coverage, we really wouldn’t know that crimes overall, with the exception of auto theft, are down since 2016. I think we will see additions to categories in the future such as active shooter for instance. What i find even more disturbing, was the sharp increase in violent crime between 2014, 1,150,000 to 1,225,000 in 2016, that is a significant raise in violent crimes. The ease at which this information can be accessed is certainly going to aide the the law enforcement community. - mmmChicken711
When I was reading through this report I actually did not question how many law enforcement agencies that are out there. In this article they said that there are 16,000 law enforcement agencies that the UCR collects data from. That to me now does not seem like a lot of agencies when talking about the entire nation. It is also a good question on how an agency is picked to collect data from. Thank you for opening my eyes to that. I do agree with you that this information is still useful and gives us more information on how crime has increased or decreased. -ClarkKent711
It just amazes me how the news never really shows how the crime rate is actually doing. I feel like they always want the citizens in a constant state of panic. It has even effected my significant other, she will not go anywhere alone in the town we live in because she is deathly afraid of being robbed or shot. Worst part is we live in a low crime town where nothing really happens. Most of the crimes that people get arrested for is DUIs or they steal something from a store. We hardly ever see the violent crimes of murder or rape. I cannot remember the last time any of those happen in our town. In this article we can see that both violent crime and property crime have both decreased in the past year. Violent crime though had only a .2 percent decrease, that is interesting that it went down at all because I thought it was going up with how the news is talking about it. But then again all they really cover is the murders which only makes up about 1.4 percent of the graph. The news likes to make that sound bigger that what it really is. They should be more focused on the cases of aggravated assault which makes up almost 3 quarters of the graph. That really doesn’t sound interesting though when someone threatens to do harm instead of actually doing harm. What also caught my interest is how much the property crime percent went down. It is down 3 percent from 2016. For a national average that seems to be a big jump to me. This article says that in 2017 there were 1.2 million cases of violent crimes. It had a decrease in murder by .7 percent in murders and a 4 percent decrease in robberies. I can show that to my significant other and show her that robberies across the U.S. are decreasing. In 2017 though they did see an increase by 1 percent in Aggravated Assault. If there was to be an increase I would rather it be in that category. It is “better” to threaten someone to do bodily harm than to actually do bodily harm. Another interesting fact that I saw in this article is that there were 7.7 million cases of property crimes. From 2016 to 2017 there 230,000 fewer property crimes. Burglars are down 7.6 percent, that makes you feel a little better leaving your house at night to go to dinner or something. The bad thing is that motor vehicle theft has increased. It has increased by .8 percent. It is not a big increase but that does mean that more people are waking up to no cars in their driveways. All in all it is nice to see that the crime rate in both violent and property crimes have been decreasing. It makes you feel safer walking around at night knowing you will probably not be a victim of one of these crimes. It is also nice to watch the news and know they are full of it, because we know that the crime rates have been dropping.-ClarkKent711
I thought the same thing when you mentioned the crime rate being shown. I don’t remember seeing anything that talk about the crime rate. I haven't seen it on the news or social media. Unless it’s being shown when I’m not watching the news. I can definitely see that they make everyone scared and its sad that it's gotten to the point where it’s affecting people's lives. I think it’s good that violent crime is going down. Even though it’s only two percent, it’s a step in the right direction. I also thinks it’s awesome that murder and robberies have been going down. Hopefully in the future, the percentage numbers will be double digits. -Soccer31711
Motor vehicle thefts increased 0.8 percent from 2016 to 2017.The arrest rate for violent crime (including murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault) was 160.7 per 100,000 inhabitants, and the arrest rate for property crime (burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson) was 388.7 per 100,000 inhabitants.Burglaries dropped 7.6 percent and larceny based thefts dropped 2.2 percent; meanwhile, motor vehicle thefts increased 0.8 percent from 2016 to 2017 in America.The CDE tool provides a central place to search, sort, and evaluate crime data in a more user friendly format than individual reports.The FBI has estimated that law enforcement nation wide has been 10.6 million arrests in 2017. The National Crime Victimization Survey program are crimes that don’t get reported because over the years there are many crimes that has happened but for some reason haven't been reported from women or men being beaten and scared to report it to the cops and from other getting robbed and being threatened to get killed for they tell the cops. There are many reasons that SOME crimes aren’t being reported not that they are good reason or necessarily understand reason. It always keeps a good count of the numbers of crimes. The Uniformed Crime Reporting program was a VERY good idea to come up as well because No one wants to go somewhere not knowing if it’s dangerous or safe to be there. Reporting crimes gives people an view of what they are surrounding their self around. Who wants to move in a new neighborhood not knowing they neighbor is a sex offender or killed their last 3 neighbors so i think programs like those that were invented is really good and helpful. It also helps the FBI and anything else that is related to the law enforcement or criminal justice system. Both program has a meaningful reason behind the way each of them operate. Not that everyone will agree with the National Crime Victimization Survey program because the main question everyone asks is why doesn’t the crimes get reported? What the reason behind it but reporting an unreported crimes isn’t really helpful either because where can you get the RIGHT information from about the crime if no ones wanted to report it in the first place Both program i think we should continue use because they are very beneficial and collect a lot of very important information over all. KenzieLand711
While I was reading your response to the UCR I found that interesting facts that you shared were very educational towards this topic because how yes, there has been a decrease in crime compared from last year, that overall property crimes have been increasing. Unreported crimes that you mention is having a big effect but I believe that people are either scared to report because they are afraid of someone coming after them and or their families, so I understand why some people don't report but I do agree that if people reported that we could get a more accurate number. -z33 711
I found that a lot of facts and statistics in this report from 2017 very interesting. One fact that I found interesting was that there was an estimated 382.9 violent crimes per 100,000 in 2017. Which is a 0.9 percent decrease compared to 2016 estimated violent crime rate. Violent crime, according to the FBI Uniform Crime Report Program, is offenses that involve force or threats. Also violent crime is composed of four different offenses, murder and non-negligent man slaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Also, of the information that was collected regarding types of weapons used in violent crime, this article showed that firearms were used in 72.6 percent of the nation’s murders in 2017. In robberies, firearms were used 40.6 percent in 2017. Finally, in aggravated assaults of 2017 firearms were used in 26.3 percent of them. Also, 45 percent of all arson offense in 2017 involved structures, such as residential, storage, public, etc. Another thing is that 24.5 percent of all arsons in 2017 mobile property were involved. Other property such as crops, fences, timber, etc., accounted for 30.5 percent of reported arsons. Another fact that I found interesting was that in 2017 law enforcement agencies reported an estimated 41,171 arsons in the United States. Arson, according to the FBI Uniform Crime Report Program , is any willing or malicious burning or attempting to burn, with or without intent to defraud, a dwelling house, public building, motor vehicle or aircraft, personal property of another, etc. Also what I found interesting was that in 2017 there was an estimated 319,356 robberies nationwide. This is a 4.0 percent decrease from the 2016 estimate. The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program defines robbery as the taking or attempting to take anything of value from the care, custody, or control of a person or persons by force or threat of force or violence and/or by putting the victim in fear. Also, there was an estimated 1,401,840 burglaries in 2017. What I found interesting about this is that this is a decrease of 7.6 percent, when compared to the 2016 data. The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program defines burglary as the unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or theft. The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program defines burglary as the unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or theft. Last year, 2017, there was an estimated 135, 7555 rapes were reported to law enforcement. This percentage is 2.5 percent higher than in 2016. In 2017, thefts of motor vehicles accounted for 26.8 percent of all larceny-thefts. Also, of all motor vehicles stolen only 75.4 percent were automobiles. Finally, there was an estimated 773,139 thefts of motor vehicles in 2017. In the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, motor vehicle theft is defined as the theft or attempted theft of a motor vehicle. Examples of motor vehicles include sport utility vehicles, automobiles, trucks, buses, motorcycles, motor scooters, all-terrain vehicles, and snowmobiles. Motor vehicle theft does not include farm equipment, bulldozers, airplanes, construction equipment, or watercraft such as motorboats, sailboats, houseboats, or jet skis. I found a lot of interesting facts and statistics in this report and hope to read more in the 2018, when it comes out next year. –Adventureflight711
Data was analyzed and they found that in 2017, property crime and violent crime has decreased compared to 2016. Violent crime went down by 0.2% and property crime went down by 3%. Over 1.2 million violent crimes were reported to the UCR. Murders went down by 0.7% and robberies went down by 4%. There was 135,755 rapes that law enforcement had that were reported. Last year there was over 7.7 million property crimes. Burglaries went down by 7.6%. Larceny thefts went down by 2.2%. Motor vehicle thefts did go up by 0.8% from year of 2016 to the year of 2017. In 2017, the total number of people arrested for the possession of marijuana in the United States was 36.7%. The total number of people arrested in the United States for possession of synthetic or manufactured drugs was 4.8%. The UCR does not gather data on runaways every since 2010. For rape data, the dont have the term “forcible” in the name anymore and that started in 2013. There was an approzimate guess on how many raped were commited and it was around 1,35,755. It has increased by 2.5% from the year 2016. In 2017, there was a guess of around 10,554,985 arrests. From that number, 518,617 was violent crimes and 1,249,757 were property crimes. Traffic violations are not collected by the UCR. The greatest number of arrests were for drug abuse violations and that number was around 1,632,921. There was a guess of people that got arrested for driving under the influence and that number is around 990,678. Arrest for larceny theft is approximated to be 950,357. There was a two year arrest trend and that showed that violent crime arrests went up by 0.8% in 2017 and that was compared to 2016. Property crime did go down by 6.7% when it was compared to 2016. In 2017, the number of arrest for juveniles went down by 4.5% when they contrasted it to 2016. From 2016 to 2017, arrest for adults went down by 0.5%. In 2017, the gender that was arrested the most was males and their percentage was 73%. The race that was arrested the most in 2017 was white and that percent was 68.9%. The arrest percent for African American was 27.2%. 3.9% were different races. There was a guess of about 810,825 aggravated assaults in 2017. Aggravated assaults went up by 1.0% when it was contrasted with 2016. When it was contrasted with 2008, it went down by 3.9%. The amount of aggravated assaults that were commited was 810,825. Some were carried with firearms and that was 26.3%. Some were carried out with feet, hands, and fists and that was 25.4%. Some were carried out with knives or something else that had the ability to cut and that was 17.2%. Any other weapons that were used was 31.1%. -Soccer31711
I started reading the article and found many interesting facts about this article. Some of the interesting facts that I found was that "more than 1.2 million violent crimes reported to UCR nationwide in 2017" which is crazy on how big that number is for just violent crimes, imagine what property crimes, 7.7 million, and about 72% of all property crimes were larceny-theft, then burglary with about 18% and motor vehicle theft for about 10%. Overall for the property crimes contributed about 15.3 billion US Dollars, But compared to a five-year trend that affected Property crimes, surprisingly, it has gone down since 2013. Back in 2013, there was about 8,650,000 number of offenses and compared to 2017, which there was about 7.7 property crime. So we are having a decrease in property crimes, and that's a good thing. Back to the Violent crime, it is about 1,250,000 reported in 2017 and back in 2013 about 1,200,000 violent crimes were reported, That is about a 6.8% increase in violent crimes total from 2013 to 2017. Things that contributed to the violent crime was about 65% was to Aggravated assault, robbery accounted for about 26% and rape account for about 8% and murder for about 1.4%. In the violent crimes that involved weapons was about 73% of murders, about 41% of robberies and about 26% of aggravated assault, however, the FBI: UCR does not record weapons used in rapes. Onto the FBI has a section that they call Clearances, which just means that if they were cleared by charged or arrest or any other means. Now regarding people under the age of 18 for clearances In 2017, about 46% of violent crimes and about 18% of property crimes were cleared by arrest or other means. Regarding clearances of violent crimes, about 62% of murder, about 54% of aggravated assault, about 35% of rape, and about 30% of robbery were cleared due to arrest or charges. If you look at that number that is actually a crazy about of people just getting arrested or charged. But if we go into that 18% of property crimes about 19% of those were larceny-theft, about 14% were motor vehicle theft, and about 14% of property crimes were burglary, but almost 22% of arson offenses were cleared by arrest or other means. Now going into more of the race and ethnicity shows that in 2017, about 78% of murder victims were male, Off the murder victims that are known the race difference is about 52% of them were African American and 44% of them were white and the rest 4% were other races, UCR reported that there are 243 unknown races to murder victims. About 45% of all murders that the UCR has collected that most of them were a single victim/single offender situations. Now onto the offenders, about 88% of them were males, more than 72% of homicide victims had involved weapons. Now, most law enforcement reported that 782 homicides were justifiable, compared to that officers justifiably killed 429 felons and private citizens justifiably killed 353 felons. I did enjoy reading the updated UCR report and look forward to next year to see if anything decreases or increases. -z33 711
Looking at the Vehicle Theft part was interesting because, as I meantioned in mine, its ten precent while burglary is 10 Percent. 10 Percent is a small number but big if you look at the ways it can be done now. Maybe not hot wire as seen on tv but Technology. People have Jammers now. They can wait until they see someone locking their car remotely and know to jam it when they hear the beep. From then on out, getting in and stealing the vehicle could be down to press start and go or find a spare in an odd spot. Or even worse, pulling the person out of the car and taking off with it. What do you think about how Vehicle Theft is going now? -Tanlion_nala711
This website was extremely informative and full of different charts for just about any type of crime. Violent, Drug, and Property. Several tables were beneath every category, as well as an article worth of information to accompany the charts and tables provided. Rather than just looking at the violent vs property crime as linked, I looked over the whole report. “Aggravated assaults accounted for 65.0 percent of violent crimes reported to law enforcement in 2017. Robbery offenses accounted for 25.6 percent of violent crime offenses; rape (legacy definition) accounted for 8.0 percent; and murder accounted for 1.4 percent. (Based on Table 1.)” -you can find that under violent crime report on the top left of the full- Take into consideration, that the general public doesn’t think about these things so they believe that violent crime is the highest thanks to social media and tv shows. When it comes to property crime “Larceny-theft accounted for 71.7 percent of all property crimes in 2017. Burglary accounted for 18.2 percent, and motor vehicle theft for 10.0 percent. (Based on Table 1.) I was actually with the comparison of vehicle theft and Burglary. Even though Burglary is a whole eight percent more, Vehicle theft is still pretty close in relation. Though the comparison is different, vehicle theft is easier now thanks to technology. Hate crime is on the report as well...well its mentioned but I don’t see it in any reports. Even going to the tab there is nothing there but I feel like it would be an interesting thing to address. LEOKA was also linked on the site:Data regarding felonious and accidental in-the-line-of-duty deaths, as well as assaults on officers. A case in Illinois caught my eye on that one “On November 5 at 1:03 a.m., a 30-year-old patrol officer with the Rockford Police Department was killed while conducting a traffic stop. The officer, who had nearly 3 years of law enforcement experience, stopped a vehicle for a false registration and a revoked driver’s license. The officer, who was wearing body armor, stood at the front driver’s side door attempting to arrest the suspect, but the suspect would not comply. The officer tried to remove the suspect from the vehicle, but the suspect began to drive away. The officer became partially caught inside the passenger compartment of the vehicle. At some point, the officer radioed dispatch for assistance. As the officer was carried with the vehicle, he fired two rounds from his service weapon at the suspect. Both rounds struck the suspect, disabling him. The vehicle crashed into a tree, and the officer was thrown from the vehicle. The officer suffered injuries to his front upper torso/chest, front legs/feet, and to the front of his head. The 49-year-old suspect died at the scene from the gunshot wounds, justifiably killed by the officer. He was a known user of a controlled substance and had a prior criminal record including a violent crime, domestic battery, resisting arrest, and a drug law violation.” Back to the basics of murder, Illinois is at 813 murders in 2017 while California and Texas are in the thousands. Continuing to Firearms connected, down to the six hundreds for Illinois. And finally hands, feet, etc. Would be for Illinois involved in murder. Keep in mind though all of three kept me interested, For illinois there was a three next to it which meant Limited Supplemental Homicide data were received. Of all the above interests, I feel like the cop incident was the most interesting. It's crazy to me that things like that can happen just because they are doing their job. -Tanlion_nala711
The first thing that the article talks about is how the crime rate has went down from the year 2016 to 2017. We are moving in the right direction which is good. Even though it was just a little drop it was still in the right direction. There were one million two hundred thousand violent crimes reported to the UCR in 2017. Sixty five percent of the violent crimes reported in 2017 were aggravated assault. Robbery at twenty five percent, rape at eight percent, and murder at one percent. I know that there will always be way more assault crimes then there will be murder crimes but I did not expect the murder percent to be that low. Now also in 2017 there were about 7.7 million reported property crimes where almost seventy two percent of these crimes were larceny crimes. Eighteen percent of the property crimes were burglary and ten percent of the crimes were motor vehicle thefts according to the article. I honestly would have thought myself that the burglary percentage would have been a little bit higher. It is good that it is not I just thought that it would have been. While reading the article I also learned of a new thing called the CDE or otherwise known as the crime data explorer. The crime data explorer is updated pretty regularly as where the uniform crime rate is not updated but once a year if I am correct. I think this is a great way to see how different cities and departments are doing throughout the year and see what areas some of the departments need to work on instead of just being able to see it once a year and the numbers never update. This will also be another good tool to see how accurate the uniform crime report is at the end of the year. If the crime data explorer is updating pretty frequently, it gives us a better idea of what to expect at the end of the year when the uniform crime rate comes out. It will make it harder for some of the departments I think to maybe lie about some of the crimes that go on in their area to make them look like a better department. If this CDE is constantly keeping track, it will be harder to lie on the year end UCR. -Steel711
I agree with you on the CDE, I am hoping that it proves to be more accurate and that it is constantly updated to keep the accuracy. I too thought that the murder percentage would be higher. I think it will really help distinguish the truth for the UCR as well because if one report is higher in crimes than the other or completely way off it will really be confusing to determine which is truthful only because we do not think that police would lie for this type of report but if they want their department to be more widely known for having higher crimes, it does draw more attention. I am interested to see this years statistics because I think everything will have increased. -notacop711
In 2017, property crimes were 10% motor vehicle theft, 18.2% burglary, 71.7% larceny theft. Violent crime in 2017, rape 8%, murder 1.4%, robbery 25.6%, aggravated assault 65%. These statistics are not horrific but they are not very good. There were one million two hundred thousand violent crimes reported to the UCR in 2017. This number is quite astounding and horrific because of the large amount of people that have went through and endured something violent. Violent crime is said to have decreased 0.2% from 2016 to the end of 2017. That is not very much if you think about it. That is a small amount. There were more than 7.7 million property crimes last year. That is an incredible amount of damage. Burglaries are said to have decreased 7.6% and larceny thefts decreased by 2.2%, while motor vehicle theft has increased 0.8% from 2016 to 2017. I am extremely curious as to this years report and statistics for what they will be. I feel as if I have heard a lot of reports and violence on the Television v. last year. I like how this new thing (the CDE) has come about so that it reports crime more regularly.I know how the UCR cannot always be considered necessarily accurate because some departments may include false information to make their department look better or like they have more crime than others, but the crime data explorer is constantly updating information for my precision. I did not think that some of these crimes were as low in percentage. I thought murder would be pretty high and rape. But the 65% of crimes in 2017 that were reported were aggravated assault. That is majority of the violent crimes. I hope the CDE deems to be accurate and informational. -notacop711
There are a couple of different crimes in America, from property to violent crimes against people. In 2017, motor vehicle theft only took up 10 percent of the property crimes, burglary made up 18.2 percent, and larceny theft made up 71.7 percent of property crimes. The other type of crime that gets committed more than other crimes are violent crimes. Most people think that murder makes up a big percentage or it happens a lot due to different television shows, however in 2017, murder only maked up 1.4 percent of violent crimes. In 2017 rape only made up 8 percent of violent crimes. Robbery made up 25.6 percent and aggravated assault made up 65 percent. In 2017 there were 1.2 million violent crimes reported to UCR (this does not cover crimes that go unreported). Here is another way to look at that number, there was an estimated 382.9 violent crimes per 100,000 inhabitants in America. There was a 0.7 percent decrease in murders and a 4 percent drop in robberies from 2016 to 2017. Everyone talks about how crime is increasing and murder is increasing but the people who claims that will not look at crime from the last 10 years, they will just look at a abnormality that is inevitable to happen. Those murders could happen in one gang fight where multiple people die, it is not all different people across the city. The same report recorded that there were more than 7.7 million property crimes in 2017. Burglaries dropped 7.6 percent and larceny based thefts dropped 2.2 percent; meanwhile, motor vehicle thefts increased 0.8 percent from 2016 to 2017 in America. Property crimes tend to happen more than violent crimes. In 2017, studies showed that firearms were used in 72.6 percent of America’s murders, firearms were used in 40.6 percent of robberies, and 26.3 percent of aggravated assaults. Losses from property crimes came in at $15.3 billion dollars. That data includes damages to the house or property, or goods that were stolen. Property crimes came in at an estimated 2,362.2 per 100,000 inhabitants, which was a 3.6 percent drop from 2016. Property theft includes a person wanting and knowingly depriving an owner of his or her property permanently. There are so many different property crimes and a lot of different ways to commit property crimes that most of the time criminals go out to commit one crime, but during the commission of that one crime, they usually commit several different crimes that when they get caught the criminals usually get stuck doing a lot of time in prison. Arson is also a property crime, and that is setting fire either to another person’s house or their own house or property. Homicides are when during a felony or intended murder/death of another person. In Illinois there are several different types of homicide, first degree, second degree, involuntary manslaughter, and reckless homicide. -crispychicken711
ReplyDeleteI agree with you; the crimes rates are crazy but if we give the help they need they won’t commit those crime. Some people need to be in jail because the stuff they do is not okay. The rate goes up on aggravated assault because most people like to put their hands-on people or act crazy and do stupid stuff. Also, you mention that those could be gangs fighting with eachother and that could be the reason crime rates go up which I agree because when gangs go head for head they are just killing eachother.-babyblue711
DeleteThis article was very interesting and very insightful. One thing I found interesting is how violent and property crime has went down in 2017 compared to 2016 data. I found this crazy because i knew it dropped from a larger scale so from 10 years difference but to have significant drops in crimes in just one year time is pretty impressive. Another thing that was interesting was that there were 1.2 million violent crimes reported in 2017. I like how it gives the amount of crime as a whole and then breaks it down really gives you the big picture. Not only did the article state that it broke it own even more talking about a 0.7 percent decrease in murders. And then it broke it down even further and talked about how there was a 4 percent decrease in robberies. Another thing i found interesting was that it also did what increased. This made the material more trustworthy and believable. It stated that aggravated assaults increased 1 percent. Then it talked about theft crimes and stated to break those down. The article stated that burglaries decreased 7.6 percent and it also stated that larceny-thefts decreased 2.2 percent. It also stated how motor vehicle thefts increased 0.8 percent.Which isn't that big of an increase though and that really surprised me I thought that thefts would be increasing over the years. Also something I found interesting is that even though population grows we still have been lowering the rate of violent crimes. For example in 1998 the population was 270,248,003 and number of violent crimes was 1,533,887 and the rate was 567.6, compare that with 2017 population was 325,719,178 and violent crimes was 1,247,321 and the rate was 382.9. That is crazy to actually see the difference, and it also is very interesting that not only was the rate decreased the population from then to 2017 has increased. I also found it interesting the tools they use to get the numbers they have. FBI’s UCR Program publishes this data both in the report and in the Crime Data Explorer (CDE) tool. The CDE tool provides a central place to search, sort, and evaluate crime data in a more user friendly format than individual reports. This is very interesting to think of and it also makes sense that they have a place to look up and evaluate crime. I can't help but think about crime that isn't reported though and how it could affect those numbers. -pizza711
ReplyDelete-pizza711, Yes, I also found this article very interesting. I truly learned so much from it. I agree, I liked how the report used two different ways to demonstrate the numbers. They used rates and ratios to display the information which helped portray their research. This made all those numbers easier to digest and understand better. Even with that, I still find it hard to truly understand what those numbers look like in real life with real people. It truly is mind blowing. This article is very eye opening, with the amount of facts they shared. This report will challenge the reader’s to think about crime in a more productive way than before. -CoalRoller711
Delete-Pizza711, I found this article to be very interesting as well! I had no idea how violent and property crime has went down in 2017 compared to 2016 data neither. I had no idea the burgulary decreased 7.6 and larceny-thefts decreased 2.2 percent and the officers only numbering 670,279 arrested 10.6 million people that year.
DeleteI also found it interesting that both violent and property crimes have decreased. I found it helpful, when they gave the amount of crime as a whole. I really liked that this article broke it down so that it was easier to understand what I was reading. While reading this article I noticed that a lot of the crimes, not all, have decreased compared to the 2016 report. For example, violent crimes, property crimes, and burglaries have decreased when compared to the 2016 data. While reading through this article, I also could not help think about the amount of crimes that go unreported each year. –Adventureflight711
DeleteThis article was highly interesting as it applies to everyone. This was the first time I had read a crime report like this. I found it to be very informational. I actually enjoyed skimming through all the facts. The overall crime rate nationwide is at a decrease since 2016. However, the media tends to display that crime is at an all-time high, but this is far from the truth. The media is just trying to sell things you want to hear, things that peek our human intertest no matter how untrue it could be. We are led to believe crime is continuing to spiral out of control, when in fact the crime rate has declined. The murder rate has a 0.7 decrease since 2016. Which is an estimated 17,284 murders in the nation between 2016 and 2017. Only 1.4 of all crime committed were murders. I was surprised by this factual data. As I was unaware of the decrease in the murders between these two years. I think this is encouraging as we are creating a brighter future for our society. The total number of law enforcement agencies is 13,128 of which they employ 670,279 trusted officers. It is hard to fathom what those numbers look like in real life. I was not expecting those numbers to be that low in both agencies and officers. I thought the numbers would have been much higher than what they are now. The FBI has estimated that law enforcement nation wide has been 10.6 million arrests in 2017. I am impressed that the officers only numbering 670,279 arrested 10.6 million people that year. I am truly impressed with that. Violent crime has also decreased at a rate of 0.2 percent since 2016. Even with a percent as low as 0.2, there is still progress being made towards a safer society. However, there is still room for more improvement. I find it challenging to understand what 0.2 looks like in the community. Property crime has declined as well. It has declined at a quicker rate than violent crime, reaching 3.0 percent. That is an exciting improvement from the previous years. I was unaware of the extreme difference between violent crime rates and property crime rates. I found the different to be quite interesting. The rate of rape per 100,000 is surprising low, only consisting of 7.2. While aggravated assault is significantly higher which is estimated to be 29.3 percent of 100,000. With that number I am greatly amazed with. I was utterly ignorant of such a large difference in ratios between rape and aggravated assault. However, both rape and aggravated assault are at a decline since the prior year. Which is remarkable and encouraging, but it also displays areas of which needs some improvements. Through this article I learned many things, the number of officer and agencies that are used to reinforce the communities across our nation, how much the murder rate has decreased and how the violent crime has also been at a decline. I thought this article was very interesting, I now know more than I did before. -CoalRoller711
ReplyDeleteI agree that this information was very interesting and that it is very useful for people to know and understand. I think this because a lot of people thin crime has increased throughout the years. This is the result of media making everything blown up to get views, people wouldn't watch something about how crime is going down and it's a safer world out there. It also was a very different data that I have never seen before either. I also thought it was interesting how they even put the data the increased in there as well. It is a very good source of information about crime and I think more people should know about it. -pizza711
DeleteThe article was very and interesting but easy to understand. In 2017 the most crime was arrogated assault. Which is an attempt to cause serious bodily injury to another or to cause serious bodily injury purposely, knowingly or recklessly, with an extreme indifference to the value of human life. I think a lot of people like to put their hands-on other people instead of killing them. At least murder wasn’t so popular and assault was. Another thing is the report also showed there were more than 7.7 million property crimes last year. Burglaries decreased 7.6 percent and larceny-thefts decreased 2.2 percent. Motor vehicle thefts increased 0.8 percent from 2016 to 2017. Meaning the crimes people are doing is either robbery, burglary, larceny, theft, motor vehicle theft, arson, shoplifting, and vandalism. To me like I said before I rather these people commit these crimes than harming someone or killing someone. Yes, it is not right to rob or take something from someone but I rather them take something from them, then take their whole life. It also states that in 1998 the population was 270,248,003 and number of violent crimes was 1,533,887 and the rate was 567.6, compare that with 2017 population was 325,719,178 and violent crimes was 1,247,321 and the rate was 382.9. The population continues to grow and the crime rate is still low which is very interesting. The estimated arrest rate for the United States in 2017 was 3,251.5 arrests per 100,000 inhabitants. The arrest rate for violent crime (including murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault) was 160.7 per 100,000 inhabitants, and the arrest rate for property crime (burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson) was 388.7 per 100,000 inhabitants. Its good that they are catching these people because they could be committing these crimes but most importantly they need to give these people some type of help, because if they don’t get help they may keep repeating these crimes.-babyblue711
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. I believe that we would rather have more people commit little crimes such as theft, and property crimes, instead of rape and murder. This then decreases the crime rate and less people are paranoid and scared. People believe they are more safe going out in public and don’t have to be so protective of their loved ones. And yes, the more crime committed, the more help that is needed or rehabilitation centers so the crimes don’t keep being repeated. Especially by the same offender, which occurs quite frequently. The more resources and programs that are offered to help the offenders, the less and less crime that is going to happen. These programs can even help people who are thinking about committing a crime. ProbdrinkingStar$’s711
DeleteThis article was very informational and interesting, it gave plenty of detail and statistics on crime and how it has became less and less over the years. This article would be a good article for the general public to read to prove how the crime rate is decreasing. People are so scared and paranoid and think that the crime rate is at an all time high but in reality it is gradually getting lower and lower. This article touches base on all the different crimes that can be committed. Even property crimes are taken into consideration. Not all crimes are strictly based on the bad ones like murder, and sexual assault. Both violent crime and property crime declined in 2017 when compared with 2016 data. Many people believe that the crime rate is going up and that it is at an all time low. But because of the advanced technology we only hear the bad and not about the good. People are easily convinced that the crime rate is extremely high. Property crime has decreased three percent since 2016 and violent crime has decreased 0.2 percent. There were more than 1.2 million violent crimes reported to the Uniform Crime Reporting nationwide in 2017. This seems like a high number but it is really not, because of the population on the United States. Burglaries decreased 7.6 percent, this is also good for the public to know because people are constantly too focused on making sure they are safe because there are so many “bad people” out there. And yes, there are bad people but they are more good than bad. Beware of your surroundings, and make sure if you don’t feel safe, you either leave the situation you are in, or you get someone to help you. This simple report is too help others sully grasp and understand what is going on in their community and what is going on around them so they can watch their children carefully, or protect them when needed. I believe all police departments should report their crimes committed to the UCR so we are able to get the most accurate data we possibly can. Not all departments report their crime, and therefore skews our data that we have for the United States as a whole. The Crime Data Explorer is used to make the Uniform Crime Reporting easier to understand for the public. Some are still unable to get a clear understanding of what is saying and how it relates to the real world. This then leads people to believe that the crime rate is increasing and becoming a big problem throughout the country. People also know that not all crime is committed because people don’t want to get others in trouble or they are threatened and are not aloud to report it to the police or else they will be harmed or their loved ones. Some are also too embarrassed what happened and would rather live with the consequences that rat someone out. This article is very informative and can give great outlook on what is really going on. ProbdrinkingStar$’s711
ReplyDeleteDear ProbdrinkingStar$’s711, I enjoyed reading you thoughts about this article. I also thought that it was a very interesting article and every informational with the data and statistic that it had. I think that if the news read this article let alone reported this on the new instead of what they report a lot more people wouldn’t be so scared and realize that crime is decreasing. I think that if this article was broadcasted more then people would have a better understanding of what is going on crime wise but also see the crime in their area. Then people wouldn’t be so paranoid and scared of crime and also wouldn’t believe the new that reports that crime is high right now.- mmmChicken711
DeleteThe Uniform Crime Reporting, (URC) Program appears to be a comprehensive report. It does leave me with some questions however. It states the URC is developed by using data collected from over 16,000 law enforcement agencies across the U.S. How many law enforcement agencies are there in the U.S., and how do we gain access to agencies info to include in the URC? I think the amount of information provided is both useful and thorough. In viewing the brief youtube video, it appears that the information is further broken down by state. This is extremely useful in tracking crimes in certain areas. We can compare cities to rural areas, we can see that even though statistically, a percentage of crime is down over all, it may actually be up in say, Chicago or Peoria. With crimes being broken down to violent crimes and property crimes and now rape, it may be possible to isolate them even further and look for trends, patterns and opportunities to solve them. Another interesting and useful piece of information is the pie chart. It further breaks down the the category of crimes, for instance, in property crimes it shows the make of what completes the pie chart. The Crime Data Explorer, (CDE) provides an even further isolation and breakdown of crime statistics. This puts information at our fingertips. Once this is uploaded on a quarterly basis, as opposed to annual, which is when it is currently loaded now, that information will almost seem like real time. I found the information contained within the URC easy to access and easily understandable. With the only crime showing an increase, auto theft in the property crime category, I’m certain it is broken down to the most popular make, model and year of most popular stolen auto. Probably the most popular color as well. In accessing the actual UCR, I found navigating through all of the different categories extremely user friendly and highly informative. I found it interesting that the main page also mentions what information that will not be able to accessed or given out, that would be the clearance and arrest data for violent crimes. I also found that accessing the categories and tables. One of the troubling statistic is just the sheer number of violent crimes. Even though there was a slight decline in violent crimes from 2016, violent crimes down .02% according to the UCR in 2017, it is still frightening the amount of attacks on people. Of course because of social media, news and media coverage, we really wouldn’t know that crimes overall, with the exception of auto theft, are down since 2016. I think we will see additions to categories in the future such as active shooter for instance. What i find even more disturbing, was the sharp increase in violent crime between 2014, 1,150,000 to 1,225,000 in 2016, that is a significant raise in violent crimes. The ease at which this information can be accessed is certainly going to aide the the law enforcement community. - mmmChicken711
ReplyDeleteWhen I was reading through this report I actually did not question how many law enforcement agencies that are out there. In this article they said that there are 16,000 law enforcement agencies that the UCR collects data from. That to me now does not seem like a lot of agencies when talking about the entire nation. It is also a good question on how an agency is picked to collect data from. Thank you for opening my eyes to that. I do agree with you that this information is still useful and gives us more information on how crime has increased or decreased. -ClarkKent711
DeleteIt just amazes me how the news never really shows how the crime rate is actually doing. I feel like they always want the citizens in a constant state of panic. It has even effected my significant other, she will not go anywhere alone in the town we live in because she is deathly afraid of being robbed or shot. Worst part is we live in a low crime town where nothing really happens. Most of the crimes that people get arrested for is DUIs or they steal something from a store. We hardly ever see the violent crimes of murder or rape. I cannot remember the last time any of those happen in our town. In this article we can see that both violent crime and property crime have both decreased in the past year. Violent crime though had only a .2 percent decrease, that is interesting that it went down at all because I thought it was going up with how the news is talking about it. But then again all they really cover is the murders which only makes up about 1.4 percent of the graph. The news likes to make that sound bigger that what it really is. They should be more focused on the cases of aggravated assault which makes up almost 3 quarters of the graph. That really doesn’t sound interesting though when someone threatens to do harm instead of actually doing harm. What also caught my interest is how much the property crime percent went down. It is down 3 percent from 2016. For a national average that seems to be a big jump to me. This article says that in 2017 there were 1.2 million cases of violent crimes. It had a decrease in murder by .7 percent in murders and a 4 percent decrease in robberies. I can show that to my significant other and show her that robberies across the U.S. are decreasing. In 2017 though they did see an increase by 1 percent in Aggravated Assault. If there was to be an increase I would rather it be in that category. It is “better” to threaten someone to do bodily harm than to actually do bodily harm. Another interesting fact that I saw in this article is that there were 7.7 million cases of property crimes. From 2016 to 2017 there 230,000 fewer property crimes. Burglars are down 7.6 percent, that makes you feel a little better leaving your house at night to go to dinner or something. The bad thing is that motor vehicle theft has increased. It has increased by .8 percent. It is not a big increase but that does mean that more people are waking up to no cars in their driveways. All in all it is nice to see that the crime rate in both violent and property crimes have been decreasing. It makes you feel safer walking around at night knowing you will probably not be a victim of one of these crimes. It is also nice to watch the news and know they are full of it, because we know that the crime rates have been dropping.-ClarkKent711
ReplyDeleteI thought the same thing when you mentioned the crime rate being shown. I don’t remember seeing anything that talk about the crime rate. I haven't seen it on the news or social media. Unless it’s being shown when I’m not watching the news. I can definitely see that they make everyone scared and its sad that it's gotten to the point where it’s affecting people's lives. I think it’s good that violent crime is going down. Even though it’s only two percent, it’s a step in the right direction. I also thinks it’s awesome that murder and robberies have been going down. Hopefully in the future, the percentage numbers will be double digits. -Soccer31711
DeleteMotor vehicle thefts increased 0.8 percent from 2016 to 2017.The arrest rate for violent crime (including murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault) was 160.7 per 100,000 inhabitants, and the arrest rate for property crime (burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson) was 388.7 per 100,000 inhabitants.Burglaries dropped 7.6 percent and larceny based thefts dropped 2.2 percent; meanwhile, motor vehicle thefts increased 0.8 percent from 2016 to 2017 in America.The CDE tool provides a central place to search, sort, and evaluate crime data in a more user friendly format than individual reports.The FBI has estimated that law enforcement nation wide has been 10.6 million arrests in 2017. The National Crime Victimization Survey program are crimes that don’t get reported because over the years there are many crimes that has happened but for some reason haven't been reported from women or men being beaten and scared to report it to the cops and from other getting robbed and being threatened to get killed for they tell the cops. There are many reasons that SOME crimes aren’t being reported not that they are good reason or necessarily understand reason. It always keeps a good count of the numbers of crimes. The Uniformed Crime Reporting program was a VERY good idea to come up as well because No one wants to go somewhere not knowing if it’s dangerous or safe to be there. Reporting crimes gives people an view of what they are surrounding their self around. Who wants to move in a new neighborhood not knowing they neighbor is a sex offender or killed their last 3 neighbors so i think programs like those that were invented is really good and helpful. It also helps the FBI and anything else that is related to the law enforcement or criminal justice system. Both program has a meaningful reason behind the way each of them operate. Not that everyone will agree with the National Crime Victimization Survey program because the main question everyone asks is why doesn’t the crimes get reported? What the reason behind it but reporting an unreported crimes isn’t really helpful either because where can you get the RIGHT information from about the crime if no ones wanted to report it in the first place Both program i think we should continue use because they are very beneficial and collect a lot of very important information over all. KenzieLand711
ReplyDeleteWhile I was reading your response to the UCR I found that interesting facts that you shared were very educational towards this topic because how yes, there has been a decrease in crime compared from last year, that overall property crimes have been increasing. Unreported crimes that you mention is having a big effect but I believe that people are either scared to report because they are afraid of someone coming after them and or their families, so I understand why some people don't report but I do agree that if people reported that we could get a more accurate number.
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I found that a lot of facts and statistics in this report from 2017 very interesting. One fact that I found interesting was that there was an estimated 382.9 violent crimes per 100,000 in 2017. Which is a 0.9 percent decrease compared to 2016 estimated violent crime rate. Violent crime, according to the FBI Uniform Crime Report Program, is offenses that involve force or threats. Also violent crime is composed of four different offenses, murder and non-negligent man slaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Also, of the information that was collected regarding types of weapons used in violent crime, this article showed that firearms were used in 72.6 percent of the nation’s murders in 2017. In robberies, firearms were used 40.6 percent in 2017. Finally, in aggravated assaults of 2017 firearms were used in 26.3 percent of them. Also, 45 percent of all arson offense in 2017 involved structures, such as residential, storage, public, etc. Another thing is that 24.5 percent of all arsons in 2017 mobile property were involved. Other property such as crops, fences, timber, etc., accounted for 30.5 percent of reported arsons. Another fact that I found interesting was that in 2017 law enforcement agencies reported an estimated 41,171 arsons in the United States. Arson, according to the FBI Uniform Crime Report Program , is any willing or malicious burning or attempting to burn, with or without intent to defraud, a dwelling house, public building, motor vehicle or aircraft, personal property of another, etc. Also what I found interesting was that in 2017 there was an estimated 319,356 robberies nationwide. This is a 4.0 percent decrease from the 2016 estimate. The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program defines robbery as the taking or attempting to take anything of value from the care, custody, or control of a person or persons by force or threat of force or violence and/or by putting the victim in fear. Also, there was an estimated 1,401,840 burglaries in 2017. What I found interesting about this is that this is a decrease of 7.6 percent, when compared to the 2016 data. The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program defines burglary as the unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or theft. The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program defines burglary as the unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or theft. Last year, 2017, there was an estimated 135, 7555 rapes were reported to law enforcement. This percentage is 2.5 percent higher than in 2016. In 2017, thefts of motor vehicles accounted for 26.8 percent of all larceny-thefts. Also, of all motor vehicles stolen only 75.4 percent were automobiles. Finally, there was an estimated 773,139 thefts of motor vehicles in 2017. In the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, motor vehicle theft is defined as the theft or attempted theft of a motor vehicle. Examples of motor vehicles include sport utility vehicles, automobiles, trucks, buses, motorcycles, motor scooters, all-terrain vehicles, and snowmobiles. Motor vehicle theft does not include farm equipment, bulldozers, airplanes, construction equipment, or watercraft such as motorboats, sailboats, houseboats, or jet skis. I found a lot of interesting facts and statistics in this report and hope to read more in the 2018, when it comes out next year. –Adventureflight711
ReplyDeleteData was analyzed and they found that in 2017, property crime and violent crime has decreased compared to 2016. Violent crime went down by 0.2% and property crime went down by 3%. Over 1.2 million violent crimes were reported to the UCR. Murders went down by 0.7% and robberies went down by 4%. There was 135,755 rapes that law enforcement had that were reported. Last year there was over 7.7 million property crimes. Burglaries went down by 7.6%. Larceny thefts went down by 2.2%. Motor vehicle thefts did go up by 0.8% from year of 2016 to the year of 2017. In 2017, the total number of people arrested for the possession of marijuana in the United States was 36.7%. The total number of people arrested in the United States for possession of synthetic or manufactured drugs was 4.8%. The UCR does not gather data on runaways every since 2010. For rape data, the dont have the term “forcible” in the name anymore and that started in 2013. There was an approzimate guess on how many raped were commited and it was around 1,35,755. It has increased by 2.5% from the year 2016. In 2017, there was a guess of around 10,554,985 arrests. From that number, 518,617 was violent crimes and 1,249,757 were property crimes. Traffic violations are not collected by the UCR. The greatest number of arrests were for drug abuse violations and that number was around 1,632,921. There was a guess of people that got arrested for driving under the influence and that number is around 990,678. Arrest for larceny theft is approximated to be 950,357. There was a two year arrest trend and that showed that violent crime arrests went up by 0.8% in 2017 and that was compared to 2016. Property crime did go down by 6.7% when it was compared to 2016. In 2017, the number of arrest for juveniles went down by 4.5% when they contrasted it to 2016. From 2016 to 2017, arrest for adults went down by 0.5%. In 2017, the gender that was arrested the most was males and their percentage was 73%. The race that was arrested the most in 2017 was white and that percent was 68.9%. The arrest percent for African American was 27.2%. 3.9% were different races. There was a guess of about 810,825 aggravated assaults in 2017. Aggravated assaults went up by 1.0% when it was contrasted with 2016. When it was contrasted with 2008, it went down by 3.9%. The amount of aggravated assaults that were commited was 810,825. Some were carried with firearms and that was 26.3%. Some were carried out with feet, hands, and fists and that was 25.4%. Some were carried out with knives or something else that had the ability to cut and that was 17.2%. Any other weapons that were used was 31.1%. -Soccer31711
ReplyDeleteI started reading the article and found many interesting facts about this article. Some of the interesting facts that I found was that "more than 1.2 million violent crimes reported to UCR nationwide in 2017" which is crazy on how big that number is for just violent crimes, imagine what property crimes, 7.7 million, and about 72% of all property crimes were larceny-theft, then burglary with about 18% and motor vehicle theft for about 10%. Overall for the property crimes contributed about 15.3 billion US Dollars, But compared to a five-year trend that affected Property crimes, surprisingly, it has gone down since 2013. Back in 2013, there was about 8,650,000 number of offenses and compared to 2017, which there was about 7.7 property crime. So we are having a decrease in property crimes, and that's a good thing. Back to the Violent crime, it is about 1,250,000 reported in 2017 and back in 2013 about 1,200,000 violent crimes were reported, That is about a 6.8% increase in violent crimes total from 2013 to 2017. Things that contributed to the violent crime was about 65% was to Aggravated assault, robbery accounted for about 26% and rape account for about 8% and murder for about 1.4%. In the violent crimes that involved weapons was about 73% of murders, about 41% of robberies and about 26% of aggravated assault, however, the FBI: UCR does not record weapons used in rapes. Onto the FBI has a section that they call Clearances, which just means that if they were cleared by charged or arrest or any other means. Now regarding people under the age of 18 for clearances In 2017, about 46% of violent crimes and about 18% of property crimes were cleared by arrest or other means. Regarding clearances of violent crimes, about 62% of murder, about 54% of aggravated assault, about 35% of rape, and about 30% of robbery were cleared due to arrest or charges. If you look at that number that is actually a crazy about of people just getting arrested or charged. But if we go into that 18% of property crimes about 19% of those were larceny-theft, about 14% were motor vehicle theft, and about 14% of property crimes were burglary, but almost 22% of arson offenses were cleared by arrest or other means. Now going into more of the race and ethnicity shows that in 2017, about 78% of murder victims were male, Off the murder victims that are known the race difference is about 52% of them were African American and 44% of them were white and the rest 4% were other races, UCR reported that there are 243 unknown races to murder victims. About 45% of all murders that the UCR has collected that most of them were a single victim/single offender situations. Now onto the offenders, about 88% of them were males, more than 72% of homicide victims had involved weapons. Now, most law enforcement reported that 782 homicides were justifiable, compared to that officers justifiably killed 429 felons and private citizens justifiably killed 353 felons. I did enjoy reading the updated UCR report and look forward to next year to see if anything decreases or increases.
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Looking at the Vehicle Theft part was interesting because, as I meantioned in mine, its ten precent while burglary is 10 Percent. 10 Percent is a small number but big if you look at the ways it can be done now. Maybe not hot wire as seen on tv but Technology. People have Jammers now. They can wait until they see someone locking their car remotely and know to jam it when they hear the beep. From then on out, getting in and stealing the vehicle could be down to press start and go or find a spare in an odd spot. Or even worse, pulling the person out of the car and taking off with it. What do you think about how Vehicle Theft is going now?
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This website was extremely informative and full of different charts for just about any type of crime. Violent, Drug, and Property. Several tables were beneath every category, as well as an article worth of information to accompany the charts and tables provided. Rather than just looking at the violent vs property crime as linked, I looked over the whole report. “Aggravated assaults accounted for 65.0 percent of violent crimes reported to law enforcement in 2017. Robbery offenses accounted for 25.6 percent of violent crime offenses; rape (legacy definition) accounted for 8.0 percent; and murder accounted for 1.4 percent. (Based on Table 1.)” -you can find that under violent crime report on the top left of the full- Take into consideration, that the general public doesn’t think about these things so they believe that violent crime is the highest thanks to social media and tv shows. When it comes to property crime “Larceny-theft accounted for 71.7 percent of all property crimes in 2017. Burglary accounted for 18.2 percent, and motor vehicle theft for 10.0 percent. (Based on Table 1.) I was actually with the comparison of vehicle theft and Burglary. Even though Burglary is a whole eight percent more, Vehicle theft is still pretty close in relation. Though the comparison is different, vehicle theft is easier now thanks to technology. Hate crime is on the report as well...well its mentioned but I don’t see it in any reports. Even going to the tab there is nothing there but I feel like it would be an interesting thing to address. LEOKA was also linked on the site:Data regarding felonious and accidental in-the-line-of-duty deaths, as well as assaults on officers. A case in Illinois caught my eye on that one “On November 5 at 1:03 a.m., a 30-year-old patrol officer with the Rockford Police Department was killed while conducting a traffic stop. The officer, who had nearly 3 years of law enforcement experience, stopped a vehicle for a false registration and a revoked driver’s license. The officer, who was wearing body armor, stood at the front driver’s side door attempting to arrest the suspect, but the suspect would not comply. The officer tried to remove the suspect from the vehicle, but the suspect began to drive away. The officer became partially caught inside the passenger compartment of the vehicle. At some point, the officer radioed dispatch for assistance. As the officer was carried with the vehicle, he fired two rounds from his service weapon at the suspect. Both rounds struck the suspect, disabling him. The vehicle crashed into a tree, and the officer was thrown from the vehicle. The officer suffered injuries to his front upper torso/chest, front legs/feet, and to the front of his head. The 49-year-old suspect died at the scene from the gunshot wounds, justifiably killed by the officer. He was a known user of a controlled substance and had a prior criminal record including a violent crime, domestic battery, resisting arrest, and a drug law violation.” Back to the basics of murder, Illinois is at 813 murders in 2017 while California and Texas are in the thousands. Continuing to Firearms connected, down to the six hundreds for Illinois. And finally hands, feet, etc. Would be for Illinois involved in murder. Keep in mind though all of three kept me interested, For illinois there was a three next to it which meant Limited Supplemental Homicide data were received. Of all the above interests, I feel like the cop incident was the most interesting. It's crazy to me that things like that can happen just because they are doing their job. -Tanlion_nala711
ReplyDeleteThe first thing that the article talks about is how the crime rate has went down from the year 2016 to 2017. We are moving in the right direction which is good. Even though it was just a little drop it was still in the right direction. There were one million two hundred thousand violent crimes reported to the UCR in 2017. Sixty five percent of the violent crimes reported in 2017 were aggravated assault. Robbery at twenty five percent, rape at eight percent, and murder at one percent. I know that there will always be way more assault crimes then there will be murder crimes but I did not expect the murder percent to be that low. Now also in 2017 there were about 7.7 million reported property crimes where almost seventy two percent of these crimes were larceny crimes. Eighteen percent of the property crimes were burglary and ten percent of the crimes were motor vehicle thefts according to the article. I honestly would have thought myself that the burglary percentage would have been a little bit higher. It is good that it is not I just thought that it would have been. While reading the article I also learned of a new thing called the CDE or otherwise known as the crime data explorer. The crime data explorer is updated pretty regularly as where the uniform crime rate is not updated but once a year if I am correct. I think this is a great way to see how different cities and departments are doing throughout the year and see what areas some of the departments need to work on instead of just being able to see it once a year and the numbers never update. This will also be another good tool to see how accurate the uniform crime report is at the end of the year. If the crime data explorer is updating pretty frequently, it gives us a better idea of what to expect at the end of the year when the uniform crime rate comes out. It will make it harder for some of the departments I think to maybe lie about some of the crimes that go on in their area to make them look like a better department. If this CDE is constantly keeping track, it will be harder to lie on the year end UCR. -Steel711
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on the CDE, I am hoping that it proves to be more accurate and that it is constantly updated to keep the accuracy. I too thought that the murder percentage would be higher. I think it will really help distinguish the truth for the UCR as well because if one report is higher in crimes than the other or completely way off it will really be confusing to determine which is truthful only because we do not think that police would lie for this type of report but if they want their department to be more widely known for having higher crimes, it does draw more attention. I am interested to see this years statistics because I think everything will have increased. -notacop711
DeleteIn 2017, property crimes were 10% motor vehicle theft, 18.2% burglary, 71.7% larceny theft. Violent crime in 2017, rape 8%, murder 1.4%, robbery 25.6%, aggravated assault 65%. These statistics are not horrific but they are not very good. There were one million two hundred thousand violent crimes reported to the UCR in 2017. This number is quite astounding and horrific because of the large amount of people that have went through and endured something violent. Violent crime is said to have decreased 0.2% from 2016 to the end of 2017. That is not very much if you think about it. That is a small amount. There were more than 7.7 million property crimes last year. That is an incredible amount of damage. Burglaries are said to have decreased 7.6% and larceny thefts decreased by 2.2%, while motor vehicle theft has increased 0.8% from 2016 to 2017. I am extremely curious as to this years report and statistics for what they will be. I feel as if I have heard a lot of reports and violence on the Television v. last year. I like how this new thing (the CDE) has come about so that it reports crime more regularly.I know how the UCR cannot always be considered necessarily accurate because some departments may include false information to make their department look better or like they have more crime than others, but the crime data explorer is constantly updating information for my precision. I did not think that some of these crimes were as low in percentage. I thought murder would be pretty high and rape. But the 65% of crimes in 2017 that were reported were aggravated assault. That is majority of the violent crimes. I hope the CDE deems to be accurate and informational. -notacop711
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