Uniform Crime Reports and Index of Crime in Columbus in the State of Georgia enforced by Columbus Polic from 1985 to 2005
Number of Violent Crimes Reported by Columbus Polic by Year and Total
Year  Population Murder/ Man-
slaughter		 Rape Robbery Aggravated Assault Total Violent Crime
2005 187,886 24 24 446 500 994
2004 188,261 25 30 395 454 904
2003 188,116 22 22 331 465 840
2002 194,265 22 25 359 427 833
2001 190,262 14 18 440 524 996
2000 185,781 19 24 439 590 1,072
1995 190,328 24 34 432 497 987
1990 179,278 24 93 456 464 1,037
1985 178,978 25 84 396 375 880
1980 168,598 35 87 388 311 821
Georgia 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 Columbus Polic 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 Georgia Uniform Crime Reports 

Index of United State's Crime Reports
Year  Population Burglary Larceny
Theft		 Vehicle Theft Total Property Crime
2005 187,886 2,681 8,763 1,681 13,125
2004 188,261 2,297 8,740 1,484 12,521
2003 188,116 2,204 9,555 1,219 12,978
2002 194,265 1,937 8,595 1,019 11,551
2001 190,262 1,803 8,473 876 11,152
2000 185,781 1,771 7,982 1,055 10,808
1995 190,328 2,201 8,350 883 11,434
1990 179,278 2,549 7,673 761 10,983
1985 178,978 2,079 6,122 557 8,758
1980 168,598 3,093 4,537 744 8,374
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 187,886 12.8 12.8 237.4 266.1 529.0
2004 188,261 13.3 15.9 209.8 241.2 480.2
2003 188,116 11.7 11.7 176.0 247.2 446.5
2002 194,265 11.3 12.9 184.8 219.8 428.8
2001 190,262 7.4 9.5 231.3 275.4 523.5
2000 185,781 10.2 12.9 236.3 317.6 577.0
1995 190,328 12.6 17.9 227.0 261.1 518.6
1990 179,278 13.4 51.9 254.4 258.8 578.4
1985 178,978 14.0 46.9 221.3 209.5 491.7
1980 168,598 20.8 51.6 230.1 184.5 487.0
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 187,886 1,426.9 4,664.0 894.7 6,985.6
2004 188,261 1,220.1 4,642.5 788.3 6,650.9
2003 188,116 1,171.6 5,079.3 648.0 6,898.9
2002 194,265 997.1 4,424.4 524.5 5,946.0
2001 190,262 947.6 4,453.3 460.4 5,861.4
2000 185,781 953.3 4,296.5 567.9 5,817.6
1995 190,328 1,156.4 4,387.2 463.9 6,007.5
1990 179,278 1,421.8 4,279.9 424.5 6,126.2
1985 178,978 1,161.6 3,420.5 311.2 4,893.3
1980 168,598 1,834.5 2,691.0 441.3 4,966.8
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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