Uniform Crime Reports and Index of Crime in Berrien in the State of Michigan enforced by Berrien County from 1985 to 2005
Number of Violent Crimes Reported by Berrien County by Year and Total
Year  Population Murder/ Man-
slaughter		 Rape Robbery Aggravated Assault Total Violent Crime
2005 56,478 4 20 5 64 93
2004 42,803 2 16 9 92 119
2003 42,351 1 14 8 83 106
2002 42,044 3 16 6 94 119
2001 41,796 0 15 5 96 116
2000 41,576 3 6 4 87 100
1995 35,273 0 25 17 86 128
1990 36,913 2 53 11 78 144
1985 47,887 0 20 17 90 127
1980 61,718 5 6 21 91 123
Michigan 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 Berrien 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 Michigan Uniform Crime Reports 

Index of United State's Crime Reports
Year  Population Burglary Larceny
Theft		 Vehicle Theft Total Property Crime
2005 56,478 130 416 37 583
2004 42,803 131 372 35 538
2003 42,351 179 457 48 684
2002 42,044 136 372 51 559
2001 41,796 142 460 49 651
2000 41,576 159 461 42 662
1995 35,273 246 401 49 696
1990 36,913 313 584 77 974
1985 47,887 347 699 57 1,103
1980 61,718 487 1,113 96 1,696
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 56,478 7.1 35.4 8.9 113.3 164.7
2004 42,803 4.7 37.4 21.0 214.9 278.0
2003 42,351 2.4 33.1 18.9 196.0 250.3
2002 42,044 7.1 38.1 14.3 223.6 283.0
2001 41,796 0.0 35.9 12.0 229.7 277.5
2000 41,576 7.2 14.4 9.6 209.3 240.5
1995 35,273 0.0 70.9 48.2 243.8 362.9
1990 36,913 5.4 143.6 29.8 211.3 390.1
1985 47,887 0.0 41.8 35.5 187.9 265.2
1980 61,718 8.1 9.7 34.0 147.4 199.3
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 56,478 230.2 736.6 65.5 1,032.3
2004 42,803 306.1 869.1 81.8 1,256.9
2003 42,351 422.7 1,079.1 113.3 1,615.1
2002 42,044 323.5 884.8 121.3 1,329.6
2001 41,796 339.7 1,100.6 117.2 1,557.6
2000 41,576 382.4 1,108.8 101.0 1,592.3
1995 35,273 697.4 1,136.8 138.9 1,973.2
1990 36,913 847.9 1,582.1 208.6 2,638.6
1985 47,887 724.6 1,459.7 119.0 2,303.3
1980 61,718 789.1 1,803.4 155.5 2,748.0
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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