Uniform Crime Reports and Index of Crime in East Chic in the State of Indiana enforced by East Chicago from 1985 to 2005
Number of Violent Crimes Reported by East Chicago by Year and Total
Year  Population Murder/ Man-
slaughter		 Rape Robbery Aggravated Assault Total Violent Crime
2005 31,409 12 12 125 565 714
2004 31,578 14 5 92 585 696
2003 31,919 21 9 111 387 528
2002 32,833 11 11 107 513 642
2001 32,597 9 14 161 810 994
2000 32,414 0 0 0 0 0
1995 32,881 6 4 88 217 315
1990 33,892 1 14 67 448 530
1985 38,535 5 6 124 55 190
1980 39,798 6 23 143 56 228
Indiana Counties
In 1930, the FBI assumed responsibility for managing the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program, collecting data from 400 cities.  By 2006, over 15,000 law enforcement agencies submitted crime reports to the FBI, but since not all jurisdictions provide reports there is a possibility that you won't find complete data on some of our agency crime report pages.  In every case where the FBI has assigned a population to a jurisdiction, we are providing a page even though it may be blank. When a city located in a county starts submitting its own reports, the population assigned to the county is reduced to reflect that fact.  
Number of Property Crimes Reported by East Chicago by Year and Total
UCR Crime Statistics prepared by the:
The Disaster Center
in association with the:
The Rothstein Catalog on Disaster Recovery
Index of the State of Indiana Uniform Crime Reports 

Index of United State's Crime Reports
Year  Population Burglary Larceny
Theft		 Vehicle Theft Total Property Crime
2005 31,409 397 1,124 339 1,860
2004 31,578 334 1,118 402 1,854
2003 31,919 431 1,129 447 2,007
2002 32,833 380 1,058 409 1,847
2001 32,597 426 1,102 341 1,869
2000 32,414 0 0 0 0
1995 32,881 224 488 160 872
1990 33,892 241 706 500 1,447
1985 38,535 622 1,492 550 2,664
1980 39,798 846 1,442 587 2,875
The UCR can be presented here because of the hard work of law enforcement statisticians who must classify and score each crime according to the strict criteria developed for the UCR.   Some agency's crime reports do not have a population associated with them, these may include: the highway patrol, state police, a drug enforcement agency, an environmental enforcement agency, a transportation utility, colleges, and others.  Areas may have many agencies performing the same or different law enforcement functions, and a population can only be assigned once, so it is not possible to formulate a crime rate for every agency.  
Violent Crime Index base upon 100,000 People
Year  Population Murder/ Man-
slaughter		 Rape Robbery Aggravated Assault Total Violent Crime
2005 31,409 38.2 38.2 398.0 1,798.8 2,273.2
2004 31,578 44.3 15.8 291.3 1,852.6 2,204.1
2003 31,919 65.8 28.2 347.8 1,212.4 1,654.2
2002 32,833 33.5 33.5 325.9 1,562.5 1,955.3
2001 32,597 27.6 42.9 493.9 2,484.9 3,049.4
2000 32,414 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
1995 32,881 18.2 12.2 267.6 660.0 958.0
1990 33,892 3.0 41.3 197.7 1,321.8 1,563.8
1985 38,535 13.0 15.6 321.8 142.7 493.1
1980 39,798 15.1 57.8 359.3 140.7 572.9
Knowing the trend of the rate of crime can be an important measure of the social health of our communities.  An unusually high rate may be caused by an isolated tragic event, the location of the jurisdiction in an area with a large industrial zone or that serves as a tourist destination, and a low rate may be caused by the assignment of crimes to multiple agencies serving the same area, only one of which can be assigned the population, or an error in the number of crimes reported.
Property Crime Index per 100,000 People
Year  Population Burglary Larceny
Theft		 Vehicle Theft Total Property Crime
2005 31,409 1,264.0 3,578.6 1,079.3 5,921.9
2004 31,578 1,057.7 3,540.4 1,273.0 5,871.2
2003 31,919 1,350.3 3,537.1 1,400.4 6,287.8
2002 32,833 1,157.4 3,222.4 1,245.7 5,625.4
2001 32,597 1,306.9 3,380.7 1,046.1 5,733.7
2000 32,414 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
1995 32,881 681.2 1,484.1 486.6 2,652.0
1990 33,892 711.1 2,083.1 1,475.3 4,269.4
1985 38,535 1,614.1 3,871.8 1,427.3 6,913.2
1980 39,798 2,125.7 3,623.3 1,474.9 7,224.0
The UCR does not include a record of every crime reported to law enforcement, and every agency does not submit data in the form that the FBI requests.  The most accurate number of crimes reported are those involving death.  The least accurate is the number of rapes that are reported. The the number of case of rape reported does not include attempted rapes.  Aggravated Assault does not include cases of simple assault, (which are the largest number of assaults reported to police) and so constitutes only a portion of the total number of reported assaults.  The number of Aggravated Assaults used here was arrived at by subtracting the number of Simple Assaults from the Total Assaults reported by each agency.  For a few agencies, this process resulted in the generation of a negative number (their UCR report wrongly indicates that there were more simple assaults than the total number of reported assaults).

The magnitude of a threat/risk is measured by its frequency and effect. By this definition crime may well constitute the single greatest risk/threat we face today.   If you have questions, comments, or suggestions, please see our FAQ page first at: http://www.disastercenter.com/UCR.html and feel free to post a message to host@disastercenter.com.  
 

National Criminal Victimization Survey, 1996 estimate that only  37% of rapes are reported to police

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Index of the State of Indiana Uniform Crime Reports ---- Index of United State's Crime Reports
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