Uniform Crime Reports and Index of Crime in Howard Co in the State of Maryland enforced by Howard County from 1985 to 2005
Number of Violent Crimes Reported by Howard County by Year and Total
Year  Population Murder/ Man-
slaughter		 Rape Robbery Aggravated Assault Total Violent Crime
2005 268,769 4 42 262 301 609
2004 266,623 1 40 223 344 608
2003 262,537 7 46 222 268 543
2002 255,406 7 37 212 202 458
2001 251,523 5 34 198 271 508
2000 247,842 7 36 164 273 480
1995 214,511 3 32 209 363 607
1990 187,328 5 48 94 405 552
1985 137,032 3 37 111 277 428
1980 118,443 5 26 62 367 460
Maryland 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 Howard 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 Maryland Uniform Crime Reports 

Index of United State's Crime Reports
Year  Population Burglary Larceny
Theft		 Vehicle Theft Total Property Crime
2005 268,769 1,225 5,385 536 7,146
2004 266,623 1,167 5,060 592 6,819
2003 262,537 1,157 5,122 680 6,959
2002 255,406 1,293 5,422 611 7,326
2001 251,523 1,582 5,739 582 7,903
2000 247,842 1,271 5,544 478 7,293
1995 214,511 1,426 6,105 841 8,372
1990 187,328 1,795 4,803 980 7,578
1985 137,032 1,414 4,470 395 6,279
1980 118,443 1,646 3,791 306 5,743
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 268,769 1.5 15.6 97.5 112.0 226.6
2004 266,623 0.4 15.0 83.6 129.0 228.0
2003 262,537 2.7 17.5 84.6 102.1 206.8
2002 255,406 2.7 14.5 83.0 79.1 179.3
2001 251,523 2.0 13.5 78.7 107.7 202.0
2000 247,842 2.8 14.5 66.2 110.2 193.7
1995 214,511 1.4 14.9 97.4 169.2 283.0
1990 187,328 2.7 25.6 50.2 216.2 294.7
1985 137,032 2.2 27.0 81.0 202.1 312.3
1980 118,443 4.2 22.0 52.3 309.9 388.4
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 268,769 455.8 2,003.6 199.4 2,658.8
2004 266,623 437.7 1,897.8 222.0 2,557.5
2003 262,537 440.7 1,951.0 259.0 2,650.7
2002 255,406 506.3 2,122.9 239.2 2,868.4
2001 251,523 629.0 2,281.7 231.4 3,142.1
2000 247,842 512.8 2,236.9 192.9 2,942.6
1995 214,511 664.8 2,846.0 392.1 3,902.8
1990 187,328 958.2 2,564.0 523.1 4,045.3
1985 137,032 1,031.9 3,262.0 288.3 4,582.1
1980 118,443 1,389.7 3,200.7 258.4 4,848.7
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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