Montana Clearance Percentages for Major Crimes by County (2007)

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County Murder Rape Robbery Assault Burglary Larceny Vehicle Theft All
Beaverhead nr nr nr 61% 7% 14% 40% 29%
Big Horn nr 0%(a) nr 50% 0%(a) 13% 12% 31%
Blaine nr nr nr 61% 0%(a) 7% 0%(a) 41%
Broadwater nr nr nr 52% 0%(a) 3% 18% 16%
Carbon nr nr nr 50% 0%(a) 0%(a) nr 25%
Cascade 100% 13% 38% 72% 14% 24% 28% 34%
Chouteau nr 50% nr 53% 17% 24% 0%(a) 33%
Dawson nr 100% nr 66% 0%(b) 12% 0%(a) 30%
Deer Lodge nr 0%(a) nr 6% 0%(a) 0% 0%(b) 3%
Fallon nr nr nr 38% 0%(a) 0%(b) 0%(a) 18%
Fergus nr 25% 0%(a) 49% 6% 13% 25% 29%
Flathead 100% 19% 0%(b) 55% 9% 15% 20% 25%
Gallatin nr 26% 38% 59% 3% 13% 10% 22%
Garfield nr nr nr 100% nr 100% nr 100%
Glacier nr 0%(a) nr 39% 0%(b) 14% 17% 24%
Granite nr nr nr 38% 0%(a) 5% 0%(a) 12%
Hill nr 0%(a) 0%(a) 69% 17% 26% 29% 44%
Jefferson nr 0%(a) nr 20% 0%(b) 2% 0%(a) 12%
Lake 50% 0%(b) 0%(a) 24% 3% 3% 3% 12%
Lewis and Clark nr 11% 40% 60% 18% 23% 31% 35%
Lincoln 0%(a) 40% 0%(a) 52% 18% 8% 16% 25%
Madison nr nr nr 42% 6% 3% 0%(a) 19%
Meagher nr nr nr 33% 0%(a) 0%(c) 0%(a) 13%
Mineral nr 100% nr 50% 0%(a) 6% 0%(a) 31%
Missoula 100% 16% 14% 63% 12% 19% 17% 29%
Musselshell nr 0%(a) nr 51% 0%(a) 2% 33% 17%
Park nr 0%(a) nr 38% 3% 3% 6% 19%
Phillips nr nr nr 43% 30% 10% 25% 26%
Pondera nr 0%(a) nr 39% 17% 0% 29% 19%
Powell nr 0%(a) nr 28% 13% 3% 38% 17%
Ravalli nr 25% 67% 61% 5% 7% 9% 24%
Roosevelt 0%(a) nr nr 79% 25% 48% 67% 68%
Rosebud nr 0%(a) nr 39% 0%(b) 11% 45% 23%
Sanders nr 0%(a) nr 37% 20% 1% 21% 18%
Sheridan 100% nr nr 38% 0%(a) 8% 0%(a) 22%
Silver Bow 100% 38% 25% 57% 8% 16% 13% 26%
Stillwater nr 0%(a) 0%(a) 60% 13% 18% 0%(a) 35%
Sweet Grass nr nr nr 70% 0%(a) 18% 40% 41%
Teton nr 0%(a) nr 3% 0%(a) 4% 0%(a) 3%
Toole nr nr nr 39% 0%(b) 5% 0%(a) 22%
Valley nr 33% 0%(a) 48% 13% 12% 60% 28%
Yellowstone 0%(a) 11% 26% 59% 5% 15% 14% 25%

 

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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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