Uniform Crime Reports and Index of Crime in Ruston in the State of Louisiana enforced by Ruston Police from 1985 to 2005
Number of Violent Crimes Reported by Ruston Police by Year and Total
Year  Population Murder/ Man-
slaughter		 Rape Robbery Aggravated Assault Total Violent Crime
2005 20,701 0 2 22 88 112
2004 20,723 2 2 24 62 90
2003 20,655 3 2 29 85 119
2002 20,608 1 6 22 103 132
2001 20,530 1 7 39 140 187
2000 20,546 0 5 28 106 139
1995 20,248 1 5 25 150 181
1990 20,027 2 5 13 113 133
1985 21,695 0 3 10 64 77
1980 20,584 2 6 15 102 125
Louisiana 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 Ruston Police 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 Louisiana Uniform Crime Reports 

Index of United State's Crime Reports
Year  Population Burglary Larceny
Theft		 Vehicle Theft Total Property Crime
2005 20,701 133 815 56 1,004
2004 20,723 170 603 36 809
2003 20,655 233 649 49 931
2002 20,608 266 772 39 1,077
2001 20,530 235 886 48 1,169
2000 20,546 283 915 27 1,225
1995 20,248 305 1,117 26 1,448
1990 20,027 183 1,180 36 1,399
1985 21,695 145 640 20 805
1980 20,584 202 644 21 867
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 20,701 0.0 9.7 106.3 425.1 541.0
2004 20,723 9.7 9.7 115.8 299.2 434.3
2003 20,655 14.5 9.7 140.4 411.5 576.1
2002 20,608 4.9 29.1 106.8 499.8 640.5
2001 20,530 4.9 34.1 190.0 681.9 910.9
2000 20,546 0.0 24.3 136.3 515.9 676.5
1995 20,248 4.9 24.7 123.5 740.8 893.9
1990 20,027 10.0 25.0 64.9 564.2 664.1
1985 21,695 0.0 13.8 46.1 295.0 354.9
1980 20,584 9.7 29.1 72.9 495.5 607.3
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 20,701 642.5 3,937.0 270.5 4,850.0
2004 20,723 820.3 2,909.8 173.7 3,903.9
2003 20,655 1,128.1 3,142.1 237.2 4,507.4
2002 20,608 1,290.8 3,746.1 189.2 5,226.1
2001 20,530 1,144.7 4,315.6 233.8 5,694.1
2000 20,546 1,377.4 4,453.4 131.4 5,962.2
1995 20,248 1,506.3 5,516.6 128.4 7,151.3
1990 20,027 913.8 5,892.0 179.8 6,985.6
1985 21,695 668.4 2,950.0 92.2 3,710.5
1980 20,584 981.3 3,128.6 102.0 4,212.0
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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