Uniform Crime Reports and Index of Crime in West Ches in the State of Pennsylva enforced by West Chester from 1985 to 2005
Number of Violent Crimes Reported by West Chester by Year and Total
Year  Population Murder/ Man-
slaughter		 Rape Robbery Aggravated Assault Total Violent Crime
2005 17,734 1 22 44 72 139
2004 17,781 0 12 33 43 88
2003 17,881 0 20 48 49 117
2002 17,940 0 12 43 46 101
2001 17,870 0 13 41 55 109
2000 17,861 0 17 30 73 120
1995 18,898 0 9 28 33 70
1990 18,041 0 10 35 54 99
1985 17,863 3 7 38 40 88
1980 17,380 0 8 43 76 127
Pennsylvania 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 West Chester 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 Pennsylva Uniform Crime Reports 

Index of United State's Crime Reports
Year  Population Burglary Larceny
Theft		 Vehicle Theft Total Property Crime
2005 17,734 90 373 42 505
2004 17,781 118 387 63 568
2003 17,881 126 425 76 627
2002 17,940 120 388 69 577
2001 17,870 135 467 78 680
2000 17,861 117 534 76 727
1995 18,898 107 560 84 751
1990 18,041 137 505 116 758
1985 17,863 201 725 45 971
1980 17,380 354 790 68 1,212
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 17,734 5.6 124.1 248.1 406.0 783.8
2004 17,781 0.0 67.5 185.6 241.8 494.9
2003 17,881 0.0 111.9 268.4 274.0 654.3
2002 17,940 0.0 66.9 239.7 256.4 563.0
2001 17,870 0.0 72.7 229.4 307.8 610.0
2000 17,861 0.0 95.2 168.0 408.7 671.9
1995 18,898 0.0 47.6 148.2 174.6 370.4
1990 18,041 0.0 55.4 194.0 299.3 548.8
1985 17,863 16.8 39.2 212.7 223.9 492.6
1980 17,380 0.0 46.0 247.4 437.3 730.7
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 17,734 507.5 2,103.3 236.8 2,847.6
2004 17,781 663.6 2,176.5 354.3 3,194.4
2003 17,881 704.7 2,376.8 425.0 3,506.5
2002 17,940 668.9 2,162.8 384.6 3,216.3
2001 17,870 755.5 2,613.3 436.5 3,805.3
2000 17,861 655.1 2,989.8 425.5 4,070.3
1995 18,898 566.2 2,963.3 444.5 3,974.0
1990 18,041 759.4 2,799.2 643.0 4,201.5
1985 17,863 1,125.2 4,058.7 251.9 5,435.8
1980 17,380 2,036.8 4,545.5 391.3 6,973.5
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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