Georgia Clearance Percentages for Major Crimes by County, Part 1 A-I (2007)

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County Murder Rape Robbery Assault Burglary Larceny Vehicle Theft All
Appling 0%(a) nr 0%(a) 0% 0% 0% 0%(a) 0%
Atkinson nr 100% 50% 54% 16% 60% 100% 53%
Bacon nr 17% 70% 58% 56% 58% 33% 56%
Baker nr nr 0%(a) 17% nr nr nr 29%
Baldwin 0%(a) 36% 38% 65% 32% 31% 33% 41%
Banks 0%(a) 0%(a) 0%(a) 26% 11% 9% 9% 13%
Barrow 33% 6% 70% 42% 38% 52% 43% 46%
Bartow 150% 31% 48% 30% 25% 32% 37% 31%
Ben Hill nr 33% 0%(a) 16% 6% 7% 33% 11%
Berrien 50% 0%(a) 0%(b) 31% 11% 18% 26% 20%
Bibb 41% 69% 35% 41% 12% 20% 26% 24%
Bleckley nr 60% 33% 41% 19% 16% 48% 24%
Brantley 100% 100% 100% 30% 36% 39% 38% 34%
Brooks 0%(a) nr 0%(a) 91% 5% 5% 26% 26%
Bryan nr 175% 74% 85% 33% 59% 63% 64%
Bulloch 100% 45% 59% 89% 26% 50% 38% 56%
Burke 100% 100% 36% 15% 13% 15% 73% 19%
Butts nr nr 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%
Camden 50% 25% 72% 28% 51% 55% 49% 46%
Candler nr 100% 33% 53% 33% 19% 27% 31%
Carroll 60% 32% 51% 23% 10% 23% 30% 22%
Catoosa 0%(a) 17% 32% 32% 21% 24% 39% 27%
Charlton nr nr 0%(a) 85% 9% 35% 43% 51%
Chatham 96% 68% 31% 34% 15% 28% 17% 27%
Chattahoochee nr nr nr nr nr nr nr nr
Chattooga nr 0%(a) 0%(a) 13% 3% 9% 29% 10%
Cherokee 0%(a) 33% 32% 61% 6% 13% 13% 27%
Clarke 71% 54% 38% 61% 11% 16% 21% 29%
Clay nr nr nr 100% 100% 150% nr 105%
Clayton 100% 29% 15% 67% 9% 29% 13% 31%
Clinch nr 0%(a) 67% 22% 24% 27% 40% 27%
Cobb 23% 19% 11% 49% 5% 15% 4% 21%
Coffee 50% 54% 36% 79% 18% 30% 40% 38%
Colquitt 100% 67% 12% 21% 8% 21% 25% 19%
Columbia 100% 40% 11% 30% 5% 10% 8% 16%
Cook 100% nr 33% 44% 0%(c) 0% 33% 14%
Coweta 67% 25% 32% 58% 14% 21% 23% 29%
Crawford nr nr 0%(a) 1% 3% 1% 0% 1%
Crisp 100% 25% 36% 56% 30% 43% 50% 45%
Dade nr 200% 100% 53% 89% 99% 90% 82%
Dawson nr 0%(a) 50% 97% 19% 13% 9% 28%
De Kalb 20% 8% 5% 13% 9% 7% 13% 10%
Decatur nr 18% 128% 29% 33% 35% 51% 35%
Dodge nr 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%
Dooly 0%(a) nr 13% 32% 0%(c) 3% 11% 11%
Dougherty 0%(b) 3% 2% 6% 1% 2% 6% 3%
Douglas 17% 53% 24% 50% 13% 21% 24% 27%
Early 100% 25% 50% 39% 42% 21% 56% 32%
Effingham nr 60% 42% 16% 7% 32% 9% 19%
Elbert nr 0%(a) 25% 25% 10% 12% 39% 16%
Emanuel nr 100% 57% 100% 29% 30% 64% 37%
Fannin nr nr nr nr nr nr nr nr
Fayette 100% 14% 42% 61% 11% 23% 23% 28%
Floyd 125% 17% 24% 27% 15% 17% 39% 21%
Forsyth nr 50% 75% 88% 5% 47% 22% 53%
Franklin 50% 125% 50% 84% 50% 51% 73% 59%
Fulton 66% 64% 18% 50% 8% 15% 8% 21%
Gilmer nr 0%(a) nr 14% 9% 11% 29% 13%
Glynn 83% 48% 54% 66% 24% 38% 38% 46%
Gordon 33% 38% 59% 43% 47% 52% 39% 48%
Grady 50% 20% 50% 37% 28% 65% 29% 45%
Greene nr 40% 43% 35% 22% 25% 56% 28%
Gwinnett 25% 25% 12% 63% 7% 24% 18% 28%
Habersham 100% 56% 50% 33% 11% 27% 32% 27%
Hall 100% 39% 58% 47% 11% 40% 27% 37%
Hancock nr nr 100% 100% 79% 93% 86% 89%
Haralson nr 0%(a) 0%(a) 20% 2% 8% 13% 10%
Harris nr 0%(a) nr 11% 0% 4% 5% 4%
Hart 0%(a) 0%(a) 0%(a) 10% 2% 23% 13% 16%
Heard nr nr nr 105% 30% 20% 52% 52%
Henry 0%(a) 13% 9% 39% 4% 10% 5% 14%
Houston 133% 57% 36% 93% 33% 52% 39% 64%
Irwin 0%(a) 75% 25% 52% 15% 34% 32% 38%

Georgia Clearance Percentagesby County for Major Crimes, Part 2 J-W (2007)

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Notes:

a: 1 to 10 reported crimes

b: 11 to 20 reported crimes

c: 21 to 30 reported crimes

d: 31 to 40 reported crimes

nr: no crimes reported

The data set used for this presentation (see below) is consisent with but may differ in part from other data sets provided by the Uniform Crime Reporting Program and used for other presentations in this series.

Clearance Percentage: The percentage of known or reported crimes cleared by arrest. The percentage is determined by dividing the number of arrests for a specific offense by the number of offenses reported to police. Blank cells indicate that no offenses in this category were reported to police. A zero percentage (0%) indicates that none of the reported offenses were cleared by an arrest.

Reported Crimes: The number of known crimes reported to police. The number of these crimes cleared by arrest is represented by the Clearance Percentage, calculated by dividing the number of reported crimes by the number of crimes cleared by an arrest, and is provided in a separate table.

All: Refers to all of the seven major crimes in the table: murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny, and vehicle thef (see below)t.

Description of Source Data: “The . . . dataset is a compilation of offenses reported to law enforcement agencies in the United States. Due to the vast number of categoriesof crime committed in the U.S., the FBI has limited the type of crimes includedin this compilationto those crimes which people are most likely to report to police and those crimeswhich occur frequentlyenough to be analyzed across time. Crimes included are criminal homicide, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft. Much informationabout these crimes is provided in this dataset. The number oftimes an offense has been reported, the number of reported offenses that havebeen cleared byarrests . . . [are] major items of information collected.” Federal Bureau of Investigation, US Departmentof Justice.

Source: Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data – Offenses Known and Clearances by Arrest

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