Uniform Crime Reports of Southbridge and Index from 1985 to 2005

Uniform Crime Reports and Index of Crime in Southbrid in the State of Massachus enforced by Southbridge from 1985 to 2005

Number of Violent Crimes Reported by Southbridge by Year and Total

Year	Population	Murder/ Man- slaughter	Rape	Robbery	Aggravated Assault	Total Violent Crime
2005	17,266	0	9	10	64	83
2004	17,372	0	9	9	53	71
2003	17,413	2	7	13	39	61
2002	17,427	1	11	11	103	126
2001	17,296	0	15	9	57	81
2000	17,214	0	12	9	269	290
1995	18,561	0	7	4	327	338
1990	17,816	0	0	0	0	0
1985	16,883	0	2	4	28	34
1980	16,625	1	1	5	6	13

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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 Southbridge by Year and Total

UCR Crime Statistics prepared by the:
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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	17,266	117	137	16	270
2004	17,372	139	180	23	342
2003	17,413	196	188	28	412
2002	17,427	154	245	36	435
2001	17,296	172	273	32	477
2000	17,214	163	243	26	432
1995	18,561	139	185	15	339
1990	17,816	0	0	0	0
1985	16,883	118	53	37	208
1980	16,625	139	86	48	273

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	17,266	0.0	52.1	57.9	370.7	480.7
2004	17,372	0.0	51.8	51.8	305.1	408.7
2003	17,413	11.5	40.2	74.7	224.0	350.3
2002	17,427	5.7	63.1	63.1	591.0	723.0
2001	17,296	0.0	86.7	52.0	329.6	468.3
2000	17,214	0.0	69.7	52.3	1,562.7	1,684.7
1995	18,561	0.0	37.7	21.6	1,761.8	1,821.0
1990	17,816	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1985	16,883	0.0	11.8	23.7	165.8	201.4
1980	16,625	6.0	6.0	30.1	36.1	78.2

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	17,266	677.6	793.5	92.7	1,563.8
2004	17,372	800.1	1,036.2	132.4	1,968.7
2003	17,413	1,125.6	1,079.7	160.8	2,366.0
2002	17,427	883.7	1,405.9	206.6	2,496.1
2001	17,296	994.4	1,578.4	185.0	2,757.9
2000	17,214	946.9	1,411.6	151.0	2,509.6
1995	18,561	748.9	996.7	80.8	1,826.4
1990	17,816	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1985	16,883	698.9	313.9	219.2	1,232.0
1980	16,625	836.1	517.3	288.7	1,642.1

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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