Arrest Mugshots: The Rise Of Violent Crimes

Police officers had become early adopters of computer database technology. It was during the late 1960’s The National Crime Information Center (NCIC) was established In the United States. At this point police records were successively computerized and became available to the various police agencies all over the country. The NCIC’s database allows local police departments to take suspects in for questioning who may avoid being arrested if they did not get apprehended. The database has a catalog of millions of criminals fingerprints, it also contains sex offenders registry , mug shots, and it can be searched for meticulous information on vehicles that have been stolen, and also gives information on warrants for firearms violations; it can even

The Uniform Crime Report, which was developed in the 1930s, is commonly used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a record of crimes committed all across the United States. These crimes, which fall under two categories, Part I and Part II offenses, are reported by local police to the Federal Bureau of Investigation each year. Part I offenses are considered to be the more serious of crimes recognized by society. Such examples of this are homicide, forcible rape, robbery, arson, motor vehicle theft, etc. Part II offenses are those that are considered less serious, such as fraud, simple assault, drug abuse, gambling, stolen property, embezzlement, etc. Part I crimes can also be subdivided into what are known as violent crimes and

This paper will compare burglary crime statistics between two cities for the years 2005 and 2012 using the Federal Bureau of Investigation database the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program. This paper will also, discuss which area had more reported incidents, what were the rates of the crime for each area, did the rates changed over time in either area, and what factors might explain the differences in the rates.

Today most all states participate in crime statistics. Years ago, not every state would turn in their crime reports, which effected the total percentage of crimes in the nation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Bureau of Justice Statistics report crime statistics. Police stations from all over the U.S. send their reports of crimes to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Justice Statistics. For example, a police station will report to the FBI that they had twenty-one reports of robberies for the current year. The Uniform Crime Report (UCR) is a report that is used for the more serious crimes, such as forcible rape, murder, arson, etc. The UCR is calculated three different ways. The Federal Bureau of Investigation are specific about the number of how many incidences were reported for a certain crime. Also, when the FBI calculates the percentages of the crime reports for a crime and compares the crime rates and an examination is completed to tell if the crime rate has increased or decreased for the current year. The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) also calculates the number of crimes out of one hundred thousand people. Another report the FBI creates is the National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS), this report is an elaborated version of the UCR. It takes all the serious crimes from the Uniform Crime Reports and breaks them down into certain categories that creates more vivid reports. These reports are very well detailed and give more information about the crimes, like how many people were arrested. The National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) is collected from police stations around the United States. The NIBRS is a report of basically incident reports. The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) reports are the most used reports to view crime statistics in the United

There have been numerous opinions as well as criticism on how crime should be measured in the United States. FBI, and U.S. Census are a few of the government agencies who utilize crime reporting methods such as Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), National Incident-Based reporting system (NIBRS), and National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). Each method is created in order to give us an estimation of crime rate, so the process to reducing it could begin. Looking at the history of each report, then review their similarities and their differences, to finally analyzing varies criticisms, will help in the understanding if these crime reporting methods are effective.

The NIBRS requires, “All law enforcement agencies to submit at least a brief account of each criminal offenses and the resulting arrests.”(Regoli, Hewitt & Delisi 2009). “For each offense that is known to the local law enforcement agencies, information within the categories of incident, property, victim, offender, and arrestee are gathered. In total information for 3 data elements within 22 crime categories as gathered.” (Cole, Smith &DeJong, 2012).

In 2015, there were an estimated 1,197,704 violent crimes. Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter increased 10.8 percent when compared with estimates from 2014. Rape and aggravated assault increased 6.3 percent and 4.6 percent, respectively, while robbery increased 1.4 percent.There were an estimated 7,993,631 property crimes. The estimated numbers for two of the three property crimes show declines when compared with the previous year’s estimates. Burglaries dropped 7.8 percent, larceny-thefts declined 1.8 percent, but motor vehicle thefts rose 3.1 percent.

limiting the ability to generalize findings as correlates and patterns can vary across crime types.

The benefits of this application are numerous. For the first time, this type of information is available to the officer on the street in a usable format that today’s officers are comfortable accessing on a device they carry with them daily. Crime mapping data is extremely useful for crime analysis and administrative purposes, however, it is difficult to bring usable crime mapping data to the patrol officer working the street. Since this is a web based app, the data in use by our current crime analyst and RMS systems should be compatible with this

The Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) is a nationwide, involving systems with thousands of statistical information by city, county, and state law enforcement agencies voluntarily reporting data on crimes brought to their attention. Not only is this program supported by local law enforcement agencies, but also by Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation. Its primary objective is to generate a reliable set of criminal statistics for use in law enforcement administration, operation, and management. It gathers and draws its information from a category of crime index and rate of crime. These include the violent crimes of "murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault, and the property crimes

Arrest Master File provides a total number of arrests for each of the 29 arrest classifications for male, female, and male/female combined and are presented by age, includes race breakdowns for juvenile arrestees and adult arrestees by offense type (1974–current) (Cohen, and Kenneth, 1984).

Ratcliff focused on hotspots in Philadelphia. To find these hotspots the researchers used violent crimes such as homicide, aggravated assault and robberies from the INCT database of the Philadelphia police report from 2006-2008. These measures have face validity since these are common violent crime that large cities have. The database used is a valid way to estimate crime but also does have limitations. The limitations of using official data from a police department is the not reported crimes that happen. Unreported crimes are a dark figure of crime and must be taken into consideration when using official data.

locations of crimes and arrests as well as suspects, victims, days and times of criminal activity,

This map was used to determine the crime ratio in areas of the City of New Carrollton Maryland between the dates July of 2015 to October of 2015. The crimes displayed are in regards to burglary, robbery, and auto theft. Displayed on the map are symbols that display what type of crime was committed in a certain area, these crimes include: three different types of auto theft totaling 95 crimes, burglary commercial totaling 62 crimes, burglary on residential areas totaling 113 crimes, burglaries committed at schools totaling 7 crimes, burglaries where vehicles were taken by force totaling 168 crimes, grand theft from motor vehicles totaling 16 crimes, petty theft from motor vehicles totaling 72 crimes, Robberies at banks totaling 1 crime, Robbery

Another factor of crime to consider is that majority of crime is committed out of opportunity or necessity. Although not all humans commit crimes, those who do generally come from troubled backgrounds or are experiencing some type of hardship in their lives. In the year 2006, nearly 500,000 thefts and robberies were reported. According to Chris McGoey as stated on Crime Doctor, robberies occurred all over the country “with the Southern states having that highest percentage of 38.3 %” of all robberies committed in 2006 (McGoey). The southeastern region of the United