Uniform Crime Reports and Index of Crime in Memphis in the State of Tennessee enforced by Memphis Police from 1985 to 2005
Number of Violent Crimes Reported by Memphis Police by Year and Total
Year  Population Murder/ Man-
slaughter		 Rape Robbery Aggravated Assault Total Violent Crime
2005 678,988 140 401 4,466 7,632 12,639
2004 652,526 107 448 3,773 5,765 10,093
2003 653,858 127 449 4,299 5,438 10,313
2002 662,441 152 517 4,244 5,506 10,419
2001 655,898 163 489 4,343 5,915 10,910
2000 650,100 149 574 4,087 4,808 9,618
1995 623,902 182 785 5,779 4,294 11,040
1990 610,337 198 831 4,152 3,904 9,085
1985 654,626 123 903 5,016 3,697 9,739
1980 644,957 152 788 3,846 2,112 6,898
Tennessee 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 Memphis Police 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 Tennessee Uniform Crime Reports 

Index of United State's Crime Reports
Year  Population Burglary Larceny
Theft		 Vehicle Theft Total Property Crime
2005 678,988 15,859 32,677 8,306 56,842
2004 652,526 14,643 32,250 7,356 54,249
2003 653,858 16,908 30,099 8,534 55,541
2002 662,441 16,360 29,899 9,219 55,478
2001 655,898 15,918 29,311 9,561 54,790
2000 650,100 14,943 26,365 8,696 50,004
1995 623,902 16,026 24,695 13,837 54,558
1990 610,337 15,526 22,966 12,681 51,173
1985 654,626 15,888 22,596 11,743 50,227
1980 644,957 18,778 20,465 4,780 44,023
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 678,988 20.6 59.1 657.7 1,124.0 1,861.4
2004 652,526 16.4 68.7 578.2 883.5 1,546.8
2003 653,858 19.4 68.7 657.5 831.7 1,577.3
2002 662,441 22.9 78.0 640.7 831.2 1,572.8
2001 655,898 24.9 74.6 662.1 901.8 1,663.4
2000 650,100 22.9 88.3 628.7 739.6 1,479.5
1995 623,902 29.2 125.8 926.3 688.2 1,769.5
1990 610,337 32.4 136.2 680.3 639.6 1,488.5
1985 654,626 18.8 137.9 766.2 564.7 1,487.7
1980 644,957 23.6 122.2 596.3 327.5 1,069.5
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 678,988 2,335.7 4,812.6 1,223.3 8,371.6
2004 652,526 2,244.0 4,942.3 1,127.3 8,313.7
2003 653,858 2,585.9 4,603.3 1,305.2 8,494.4
2002 662,441 2,469.7 4,513.5 1,391.7 8,374.8
2001 655,898 2,426.9 4,468.8 1,457.7 8,353.4
2000 650,100 2,298.6 4,055.5 1,337.6 7,691.7
1995 623,902 2,568.7 3,958.2 2,217.8 8,744.6
1990 610,337 2,543.8 3,762.8 2,077.7 8,384.4
1985 654,626 2,427.0 3,451.7 1,793.8 7,672.6
1980 644,957 2,911.5 3,173.1 741.1 6,825.7
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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