Pennsylvania Clearance Percentages for Major Crimes by County (2006)

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County Murder Rape Robbery Assault Burglary Larceny Vehicle
Theft
All
Adams
100% 39% 89% 92% 25% 48% 44% 57%
Allegheny
54% 74% 33% 65% 21% 22% 19% 34%
Armstrong
100% 46% 53% 91% 21% 30% 41% 49%
Beaver
67% 64% 36% 74% 23% 28% 31% 39%
Bedford
nr 50% 30% 79% 16% 24% 40% 44%
Berks
83% 76% 29% 82% 16% 23% 11% 35%
Blair
100% 46% 43% 71% 19% 23% 38% 38%
Bradford
0%(a) 47% 25% 86% 19% 23% 46% 42%
Bucks
88% 50% 40% 77% 17% 20% 15% 28%
Butler
50% 25% 55% 79% 22% 31% 39% 42%
Cambria
100% 71% 55% 80% 18% 29% 25% 41%
Cameron
nr 67% nr 95% 17% 20% 200% 47%
Carbon
300% 67% 45% 79% 17% 23% 33% 39%
Centre
67% 36% 29% 76% 22% 25% 47% 36%
Chester
88% 50% 38% 81% 18% 26% 26% 36%
Clarion
nr 48% 20% 92% 21% 22% 64% 49%
Clearfield
100% 92% 7% 90% 21% 33% 54% 55%
Clinton
nr 15% 29% 86% 26% 53% 35% 54%
Columbia
100% 54% 50% 76% 25% 24% 10% 34%
Crawford
100% 44% 62% 83% 22% 29% 40% 42%
Cumberland
67% 46% 59% 75% 22% 27% 36% 41%
Dauphin
127% 63% 40% 78% 18% 27% 33% 43%
Delaware
54% 56% 29% 61% 19% 24% 14% 31%
Elk
nr 50% 33% 82% 27% 37% 57% 48%
Erie
100% 67% 32% 74% 25% 30% 39% 44%
Fayette
100% 44% 58% 82% 17% 26% 25% 44%
Forest
nr 100% nr 89% 13% 32% 55% 57%
Franklin
75% 43% 36% 79% 23% 21% 43% 43%
Fulton
nr 67% 50% 95% 27% 30% 56% 56%
Greene
100% 60% 43% 97% 21% 30% 42% 53%
Huntingdon
100% 33% 25% 89% 25% 28% 33% 51%
Indiana
0%(a) 38% 100% 84% 22% 39% 47% 53%
Jefferson
100% 100% 200% 90% 30% 43% 86% 58%
Juniata
nr 33% 100% 97% 19% 38% 64% 58%
Lackawanna
nr 40% 31% 67% 14% 19% 15% 29%
Lancaster
90% 40% 26% 81% 24% 25% 22% 37%
Lawrence
67% 47% 36% 86% 23% 38% 28% 43%
Lebanon
50% 35% 76% 84% 28% 26% 32% 44%
Lehigh
82% 56% 20% 61% 12% 18% 10% 27%
Luzerne
95% 31% 33% 79% 20% 22% 19% 33%
Lycoming
0%(a) 56% 35% 84% 17% 27% 43% 39%
McKean
100% 71% 0%(a) 72% 25% 16% 35% 35%
Mercer
67% 70% 40% 77% 21% 31% 35% 39%
Mifflin
100% 42% 17% 83% 11% 19% 24% 29%
Monroe
75% 34% 39% 77% 17% 28% 22% 35%
Montgomery
86% 58% 37% 75% 23% 29% 27% 37%
Montour
nr 200% nr 87% 18% 28% 44% 48%
Northampton
80% 48% 35% 75% 17% 21% 17% 33%
Northumberland
50% 68% 67% 87% 27% 35% 51% 53%
Perry
100% 50% 128% 85% 22% 31% 64% 55%
Philadelphia
56% 63% 29% 39% 14% 15% 17% 25%
Pike
100% 25% 50% 89% 7% 18% 23% 44%
Potter
nr 125% nr 90% 49% 27% 54% 57%
Schuylkill
100% 53% 65% 90% 38% 36% 45% 56%
Snyder
nr 43% 43% 71% 19% 41% 41% 48%
Somerset
nr 21% 60% 87% 19% 28% 30% 48%
Sullivan
nr 300% nr 85% 23% 28% 25% 50%
Susquehanna
nr 100% 20% 86% 18% 23% 19% 48%
Tioga
nr 50% 75% 99% 21% 32% 45% 49%
Union
nr 55% 100% 90% 13% 33% 19% 50%
Venango
100% 56% 17% 89% 32% 41% 56% 53%
Warren
nr 57% nr 93% 38% 44% 61% 62%
Washington
50% 66% 45% 85% 24% 32% 48% 47%
Wayne
100% 52% 40% 90% 23% 31% 37% 46%
Westmoreland
83% 27% 42% 82% 22% 31% 30% 41%
Wyoming
nr 83% 40% 96% 32% 37% 100% 63%
York
100% 69% 31% 83% 24% 29% 26% 39%

 

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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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