Uniform Crime Reports and Index of Crime in Kern in the State of Californi enforced by Kern County from 1985 to 2005
Number of Violent Crimes Reported by Kern County by Year and Total
Year  Population Murder/ Man-
slaughter		 Rape Robbery Aggravated Assault Total Violent Crime
2005 328,078 28 134 339 1,190 1,691
2004 323,278 18 131 322 1,412 1,883
2003 317,681 15 119 283 1,392 1,809
2002 315,798 26 129 331 1,432 1,918
2001 314,442 13 119 322 1,529 1,983
2000 308,838 11 118 313 1,649 2,091
1995 312,243 35 108 398 1,912 2,453
1990 274,852 30 169 434 1,556 2,189
1985 257,554 34 122 486 1,073 1,715
1980 212,427 54 133 479 970 1,636
California 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 Kern County 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 Californi Uniform Crime Reports 

Index of United State's Crime Reports
Year  Population Burglary Larceny
Theft		 Vehicle Theft Total Property Crime
2005 328,078 3,260 6,926 2,009 12,195
2004 323,278 3,607 6,262 1,720 11,589
2003 317,681 3,400 5,546 1,586 10,532
2002 315,798 3,032 6,051 1,275 10,358
2001 314,442 2,942 6,341 1,040 10,323
2000 308,838 2,806 5,488 978 9,272
1995 312,243 4,019 7,451 1,656 13,126
1990 274,852 4,176 7,749 1,015 12,940
1985 257,554 4,455 8,507 800 13,762
1980 212,427 4,723 9,072 1,089 14,884
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 328,078 8.5 40.8 103.3 362.7 515.4
2004 323,278 5.6 40.5 99.6 436.8 582.5
2003 317,681 4.7 37.5 89.1 438.2 569.4
2002 315,798 8.2 40.8 104.8 453.5 607.4
2001 314,442 4.1 37.8 102.4 486.3 630.6
2000 308,838 3.6 38.2 101.3 533.9 677.1
1995 312,243 11.2 34.6 127.5 612.3 785.6
1990 274,852 10.9 61.5 157.9 566.1 796.4
1985 257,554 13.2 47.4 188.7 416.6 665.9
1980 212,427 25.4 62.6 225.5 456.6 770.1
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 328,078 993.7 2,111.1 612.4 3,717.1
2004 323,278 1,115.8 1,937.0 532.0 3,584.8
2003 317,681 1,070.3 1,745.8 499.2 3,315.3
2002 315,798 960.1 1,916.1 403.7 3,279.9
2001 314,442 935.6 2,016.6 330.7 3,283.0
2000 308,838 908.6 1,777.0 316.7 3,002.2
1995 312,243 1,287.1 2,386.3 530.4 4,203.8
1990 274,852 1,519.4 2,819.3 369.3 4,708.0
1985 257,554 1,729.7 3,303.0 310.6 5,343.3
1980 212,427 2,223.4 4,270.6 512.6 7,006.6
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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