Uniform Crime Reports and Index of Crime in Portland in the State of Oregon enforced by Portland Polic from 1985 to 2005
Number of Violent Crimes Reported by Portland Polic by Year and Total
Year  Population Murder/ Man-
slaughter
Rape Robbery Aggravated Assault Total Violent Crime
2005 538,087 22 325 1,137 2,376 3,860
2004 541,589 30 313 1,287 2,405 4,035
2003 543,049 28 310 1,367 2,732 4,437
2002 542,407 22 354 1,294 2,844 4,514
2001 534,914 21 305 1,267 2,963 4,556
2000 526,986 19 369 1,446 3,864 5,698
1995 457,705 44 426 2,298 6,066 8,834
1990 436,444 33 424 2,541 4,838 7,836
1985 366,836 45 469 3,508 4,614 8,636
1980 363,708 49 364 2,249 2,298 4,960
Oregon 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 Portland Polic 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 Oregon Uniform Crime Reports 

Index of United State's Crime Reports
Year  Population Burglary Larceny
Theft
Vehicle Theft Total Property Crime
2005 538,087 6,121 25,794 5,730 37,645
2004 541,589 7,237 28,322 5,936 41,495
2003 543,049 6,484 29,599 5,868 41,951
2002 542,407 5,702 27,933 5,180 38,815
2001 534,914 5,592 28,358 4,677 38,627
2000 526,986 5,560 24,970 4,715 35,245
1995 457,705 7,813 29,589 9,113 46,515
1990 436,444 8,967 25,933 5,809 40,709
1985 366,836 17,148 33,086 3,387 53,621
1980 363,708 10,979 22,649 2,248 35,876
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 538,087 4.1 60.4 211.3 441.6 717.4
2004 541,589 5.5 57.8 237.6 444.1 745.0
2003 543,049 5.2 57.1 251.7 503.1 817.1
2002 542,407 4.1 65.3 238.6 524.3 832.2
2001 534,914 3.9 57.0 236.9 553.9 851.7
2000 526,986 3.6 70.0 274.4 733.2 1,081.2
1995 457,705 9.6 93.1 502.1 1,325.3 1,930.1
1990 436,444 7.6 97.1 582.2 1,108.5 1,795.4
1985 366,836 12.3 127.9 956.3 1,257.8 2,354.2
1980 363,708 13.5 100.1 618.4 631.8 1,363.7
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 538,087 1,137.5 4,793.6 1,064.9 6,996.1
2004 541,589 1,336.3 5,229.4 1,096.0 7,661.7
2003 543,049 1,194.0 5,450.5 1,080.6 7,725.1
2002 542,407 1,051.2 5,149.8 955.0 7,156.1
2001 534,914 1,045.4 5,301.4 874.3 7,221.2
2000 526,986 1,055.1 4,738.3 894.7 6,688.0
1995 457,705 1,707.0 6,464.6 1,991.0 10,162.7
1990 436,444 2,054.6 5,941.9 1,331.0 9,327.4
1985 366,836 4,674.6 9,019.3 923.3 14,617.2
1980 363,708 3,018.6 6,227.2 618.1 9,864.0
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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