Uniform Crime Reports and Index of Crime in Westfield in the State of Massachus enforced by Westfield Poli from 1985 to 2005
Number of Violent Crimes Reported by Westfield Poli by Year and Total
Year  Population Murder/ Man-
slaughter		 Rape Robbery Aggravated Assault Total Violent Crime
2005 40,447 2 16 13 155 186
2004 40,453 0 15 6 102 123
2003 40,349 0 12 8 85 105
2002 40,569 3 11 14 212 240
2001 40,263 0 13 8 115 136
2000 40,072 0 8 11 307 326
1995 38,394 0 15 21 161 197
1990 38,372 0 12 14 153 179
1985 37,236 0 8 8 14 30
1980 36,356 2 6 15 60 83
Massachusetts 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 Westfield Poli 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 Massachus Uniform Crime Reports 

Index of United State's Crime Reports
Year  Population Burglary Larceny
Theft		 Vehicle Theft Total Property Crime
2005 40,447 243 333 70 646
2004 40,453 271 388 77 736
2003 40,349 178 460 82 720
2002 40,569 188 516 99 803
2001 40,263 270 476 74 820
2000 40,072 196 536 77 809
1995 38,394 200 581 84 865
1990 38,372 405 902 169 1,476
1985 37,236 325 653 86 1,064
1980 36,356 252 668 83 1,003
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 40,447 4.9 39.6 32.1 383.2 459.9
2004 40,453 0.0 37.1 14.8 252.1 304.1
2003 40,349 0.0 29.7 19.8 210.7 260.2
2002 40,569 7.4 27.1 34.5 522.6 591.6
2001 40,263 0.0 32.3 19.9 285.6 337.8
2000 40,072 0.0 20.0 27.5 766.1 813.5
1995 38,394 0.0 39.1 54.7 419.3 513.1
1990 38,372 0.0 31.3 36.5 398.7 466.5
1985 37,236 0.0 21.5 21.5 37.6 80.6
1980 36,356 5.5 16.5 41.3 165.0 228.3
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 40,447 600.8 823.3 173.1 1,597.2
2004 40,453 669.9 959.1 190.3 1,819.4
2003 40,349 441.2 1,140.1 203.2 1,784.4
2002 40,569 463.4 1,271.9 244.0 1,979.3
2001 40,263 670.6 1,182.2 183.8 2,036.6
2000 40,072 489.1 1,337.6 192.2 2,018.9
1995 38,394 520.9 1,513.3 218.8 2,253.0
1990 38,372 1,055.5 2,350.7 440.4 3,846.6
1985 37,236 872.8 1,753.7 231.0 2,857.4
1980 36,356 693.1 1,837.4 228.3 2,758.8
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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