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Offenses known to law enforcement.


The FBI's UCR (Under Color Removal) A method for reducing the amount of printing ink used. It substitutes black for gray color (equal amounts of cyan, magenta and yellow). Thus black ink is used instead of the three CMY inks. See GCR and dot gain.  Program collects offenses known to law enforcement for violent crime and property crime, as well as data regarding clearances of these offenses. In addition, the FBI also collects additional data about these offenses (i.e. time of day of burglaries). These expanded offense data also include trends (2-, 5-, and 10- year comparisons) in both crime volume and crime rate per 100,000 inhabitants
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. Finally, the UCR Program collects expanded homicide data via the Supplementary Homicide Report. These data include information about homicide victims and offenders, the circumstances surrounding the offenses, as well as information about justifiable homicides justifiable homicide n. a killing without evil or criminal intent, for which there can be no blame, such as self-defense to protect oneself or to protect another, or the shooting by a law enforcement officer in fulfilling his/her duties. .

Violent crime

Violent crime is composed of four offenses: Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible forc·i·ble  
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1. Effected against resistance through the use of force: The police used forcible restraint in order to subdue the assailant.

2. Characterized by force; powerful.
 rape, robbery, and aggravated assault A person is guilty of aggravated assault if he or she attempts to cause serious bodily injury to another or causes such injury purposely, knowingly, or recklessly under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life; or attempts to cause or purposely or . Violent crimes are defined in the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program as those offenses which involve force or threat of force.

More information about violent crime and an overview of violent crime data for 2006.

Property crime

In the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, property crime includes the offenses of burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft Motor vehicle theft or grand theft auto is a criminal act of theft generally understood to refer to the stealing of automobiles, buses, motorcycles, snowmobiles, trucks, trailers or any other motorized vehicle legally allowed on public roads and highways, including attempted , and arson arson, at common law, the malicious and willful burning of the house of another. Originally, it was an offense against the security of habitation rather than against property rights. . The object of the theft-type offenses is the taking of money or property, but there is no force or threat of force against the victims.

More information about property crime and an overview of property crime data for 2006.

Clearances

Within the UCR Program, law enforcement agencies A law enforcement agency (LEA) is a term used to describe any agency which enforces the law. This may be a local or state police, federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).  can clear, or "close," offenses in one of two ways: by arrest or by exceptional means. Agencies may administratively close a case, but this does not necessarily mean that the agency can clear the offense for UCR purposes.

More information about the criteria used to clear an offense for UCR purposes and an overview of clearance data for 2006.

Expanded offense data

The FBI collects the number of offenses for the crimes of murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson through the Uniform Crime Reporting Program. In addition to the number of offenses known to the police, the FBI also collects additional data about these offenses, such as the locations of robberies, time of day of burglaries, and other analyses about the offenses. These expanded data also include trends (2-, 5-, and 10- year comparisons) in both crime volume and crime rate per 100,000 inhabitants.

More information about expanded offense data.

Expanded homicide data

The UCR Program's Supplementary Homicide Report (SHR SHR Shore
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) data, presented in the expanded homicide data area of this Web publication, provides information regarding the age, sex, and race of the murder victim and the offender; the type of weapon used in the murder; the relationship of the victim to the offender; and the circumstance surrounding the incident. These data also include information about justifiable homicides.

More information about expanded homicide data.
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