Uniform Crime Reports of Somerset Count and Index from 1985 to 2005

Uniform Crime Reports and Index of Crime in Somerset in the State of Pennsylva enforced by Somerset Count from 1985 to 2005

Number of Violent Crimes Reported by Somerset Count by Year and Total

Year	Population	Murder/ Man- slaughter	Rape	Robbery	Aggravated Assault	Total Violent Crime
2005	48,378	1	21	2	34	58
2004	48,158	2	18	5	44	69
2003	47,919	3	12	8	54	77
2002	48,154	2	17	13	27	59
2001	47,965	0	10	8	27	45
2000	47,940	0	10	3	30	43
1995	46,471	4	5	1	34	44
1990	47,392	2	7	5	53	67
1985	41,387	0	5	2	19	26
1980	44,511	1	1	2	20	24

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 Somerset Count by Year and Total

UCR Crime Statistics prepared by the:
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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	48,378	257	318	55	630
2004	48,158	264	376	52	692
2003	47,919	232	358	46	636
2002	48,154	269	381	54	704
2001	47,965	170	271	40	481
2000	47,940	229	301	54	584
1995	46,471	207	249	75	531
1990	47,392	267	220	43	530
1985	41,387	249	183	41	473
1980	44,511	260	224	30	514

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	48,378	2.1	43.4	4.1	70.3	119.9
2004	48,158	4.2	37.4	10.4	91.4	143.3
2003	47,919	6.3	25.0	16.7	112.7	160.7
2002	48,154	4.2	35.3	27.0	56.1	122.5
2001	47,965	0.0	20.8	16.7	56.3	93.8
2000	47,940	0.0	20.9	6.3	62.6	89.7
1995	46,471	8.6	10.8	2.2	73.2	94.7
1990	47,392	4.2	14.8	10.6	111.8	141.4
1985	41,387	0.0	12.1	4.8	45.9	62.8
1980	44,511	2.2	2.2	4.5	44.9	53.9

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	48,378	531.2	657.3	113.7	1,302.2
2004	48,158	548.2	780.8	108.0	1,436.9
2003	47,919	484.2	747.1	96.0	1,327.2
2002	48,154	558.6	791.2	112.1	1,462.0
2001	47,965	354.4	565.0	83.4	1,002.8
2000	47,940	477.7	627.9	112.6	1,218.2
1995	46,471	445.4	535.8	161.4	1,142.6
1990	47,392	563.4	464.2	90.7	1,118.3
1985	41,387	601.6	442.2	99.1	1,142.9
1980	44,511	584.1	503.2	67.4	1,154.8

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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