Uniform Crime Reports and Index of Crime in Las Cruce in the State of New Mexic enforced by Las Cruces Pol from 1985 to 2005
Number of Violent Crimes Reported by Las Cruces Pol by Year and Total
Year  Population Murder/ Man-
slaughter		 Rape Robbery Aggravated Assault Total Violent Crime
2005 80,573 5 96 101 263 465
2004 78,168 3 81 106 162 352
2003 75,806 1 83 99 232 415
2002 75,737 0 48 64 203 315
2001 74,679 0 65 79 268 412
2000 74,267 7 56 93 304 460
1995 72,374 9 67 102 494 672
1990 62,126 8 46 88 262 404
1985 49,326 7 19 65 159 250
1980 44,916 0 13 49 140 202
New Mexico 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 Las Cruces Pol 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 New Mexic Uniform Crime Reports 

Index of United State's Crime Reports
Year  Population Burglary Larceny
Theft		 Vehicle Theft Total Property Crime
2005 80,573 750 2,954 245 3,949
2004 78,168 705 3,230 199 4,134
2003 75,806 834 3,036 251 4,121
2002 75,737 639 2,754 118 3,511
2001 74,679 928 4,208 192 5,328
2000 74,267 1,190 4,944 171 6,305
1995 72,374 1,394 4,206 380 5,980
1990 62,126 1,393 3,827 358 5,578
1985 49,326 1,053 3,018 245 4,316
1980 44,916 822 2,775 186 3,783
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 80,573 6.2 119.1 125.4 326.4 577.1
2004 78,168 3.8 103.6 135.6 207.2 450.3
2003 75,806 1.3 109.5 130.6 306.0 547.5
2002 75,737 0.0 63.4 84.5 268.0 415.9
2001 74,679 0.0 87.0 105.8 358.9 551.7
2000 74,267 9.4 75.4 125.2 409.3 619.4
1995 72,374 12.4 92.6 140.9 682.6 928.5
1990 62,126 12.9 74.0 141.6 421.7 650.3
1985 49,326 14.2 38.5 131.8 322.3 506.8
1980 44,916 0.0 28.9 109.1 311.7 449.7
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 80,573 930.8 3,666.2 304.1 4,901.1
2004 78,168 901.9 4,132.1 254.6 5,288.6
2003 75,806 1,100.2 4,005.0 331.1 5,436.2
2002 75,737 843.7 3,636.3 155.8 4,635.8
2001 74,679 1,242.7 5,634.8 257.1 7,134.5
2000 74,267 1,602.3 6,657.1 230.3 8,489.6
1995 72,374 1,926.1 5,811.5 525.1 8,262.6
1990 62,126 2,242.2 6,160.1 576.2 8,978.5
1985 49,326 2,134.8 6,118.5 496.7 8,749.9
1980 44,916 1,830.1 6,178.2 414.1 8,422.4
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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