Persons arrested.Definition The Uniform Crime Reporting (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 counts one arrest for each separate instance in which a person is arrested, cited, or summoned for an offense. The Program collects arrest data on 29 offenses, as described in Offense Definitions. Because a person may be arrested multiple times during the year, the UCR arrest figures do not reflect the number of individuals who have been arrested. Rather, the arrest data show the number of times that persons are arrested, as reported by 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). to the UCR Program. Data collection--juveniles The UCR Program considers a juvenile juvenile /ju·ve·nile/ (ju´vin-il) 1. pertaining to youth or childhood. 2. a youth or child; a young animal. 3. a cell or organism intermediate between immature and mature forms. to be an individual under 18 years of age regardless of state definition. The Program does not collect data regarding police contact with a juvenile who has not committed an offense, nor does it collect data on situations in which police take a juvenile into custody The care, possession, and control of a thing or person. The retention, inspection, guarding, maintenance, or security of a thing within the immediate care and control of the person to whom it is committed. The detention of a person by lawful authority or process. for his or her own protection, e.g., neglect An omission to do or perform some work, duty, or act. As used by U.S. courts, the term neglect denotes the failure of responsibility on the part of defendants or attorneys. cases. Overview * In 2006, the FBI estimated that 14,380,370 arrests occurred nationwide for all offenses (except traffic violations), of which 611,523 were for violent crimes, and 1,540,297 were for property crimes * Law enforcement made more arrests for drug abuse violations in 2006 (an estimated 1.9 million arrests, or 13.1 percent of the total number of arrests) than for any other offense. (Based on Table 29.) * Nationwide, the 2006 rate of arrests was estimated at 4,832.5 arrests per 100,000 inhabitants
The game is based loosely on the concepts from SameGame. ; for violent crime, the estimate was 207.0 per 100,000; and for property crime, the estimate was 524.5 per 100,000. (See Table 30.) * Although the number of arrests for violent crimes increased less than 1 percent (0.3) when compared with arrest data from 2005, arrests for robbery robbery, in law, felonious taking of property from a person against his will by threatening or committing force or violence. The injury or threat may be directed against the person robbed, his property, or the person or property of his relative or of anyone in his offenses rose 8.6 percent. * Arrests of juveniles (under 18 years of age) for murder rose 3.4 percent in 2006 compared with 2005 arrest data; for robbery, arrests of juveniles increased 18.9 percent over the same 2-year period. (See Table 36.) * In 2006, 76.3 percent of all persons arrested were male, 82.2 percent of persons arrested for violent crime were male, and 68.8 percent of persons arrested for property crime were male. (See Table 42.) * Among the four categories of race reflected in UCR arrest data, 69.7 percent of persons arrested were white, 58.5 percent of persons arrested for violent crime were white, and 68.2 percent of persons arrested for property crime were white. * White juveniles comprised 67.1 percent of the juveniles arrested in 2006. * Black juveniles accounted for 51.0 percent of the juveniles arrested for violent crime, and white juveniles comprised 66.3 percent of juveniles arrested for property crime. (See Table 43.) Expanded arrest data Expanded data about arrests include information about the age, gender, and race of the arrestees. These data are available in the following tables: Age: Tables 32, 34, 36, 38, 41, 44, 46, 47, 50, 52, 53, 56, 58, 59, 62, 64, and 65 Gender: Tables 33, 35, 37, 39, 40, 42, 45, 48, 51, 54, 57, 60, 63, and 66 Race: Tables 43, 49, 55, 61, and 67 Arrest Table Arrests for Drug Abuse Violations Percent Distribution by Region, 2006
Drug abuse United
violations States
total Northeast Midwest
Total (1) 100.0 100.0 100.0
Sale/ Total 17.5 22.7 17.4
Manufacturing:
Heroin or 8.0 14.6 5.6
cocaine and
their
derivatives
Marijuana 4.8 5.4 6.8
Synthetic or 1.5 1.0 1.1
manufactured
drugs
Other 3.2 1.7 3.9
dangerous
nonnarcotic
drugs
Possession: Total 82.5 77.3 82.6
Heroin or 22.8 23.9 16.1
cocaine and
their
derivatives
Marijuana 39.1 42.5 50.2
Synthetic or 3.4 2.1 3.1
manufactured
drugs
Other 17.2 8.9 13.3
dangerous
nonnarcotic
drugs
Drug abuse
violations
South West
Total(1) 100.0 100.0
Sale/ Total 17.5 15.1
Manufacturing:
Heroin or 8.3 5.5
cocaine and
their
derivatives
Marijuana 4.3 4.1
Synthetic or 2.8 0.6
manufactured
drugs
Other 2.0 4.8
dangerous
nonnarcotic
drugs
Possession: Total 82.5 84.9
Heroin or 24.9 23.1
cocaine and
their
derivatives
Marijuana 45.5 25.9
Synthetic or 4.4 3.1
manufactured
drugs
Other 7.8 32.8
dangerous
nonnarcotic
drugs
(1) Because of rounding, the percentages may not add to 100.0.
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