Colorado Clearance Percentages for Major Crimes by County (2007)

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County
Murder
Rape
Robbery
Assault
Burglary
Larceny
Vehicle Theft
All
Adams 100% 44% 28% 74% 13% 23% 11% 30%
Alamosa 100% 26% 50% 66% 10% 27% 0%(b) 34%
Arapahoe 41% 26% 18% 63% 5% 21% 7% 26%
Archuleta nr 0%(a) 0%(a) 86% 6% 23% 0%(a) 28%
Baca nr nr nr 100% nr 100% nr 100%
Bent 0%(a) 50% nr 85% 6% 11% 20% 26%
Boulder 100% 51% 36% 82% 15% 20% 57% 36%
Chaffee nr 0%(a) nr 79% 4% 13% 58% 30%
Cheyenne nr nr nr 67% 100% 33% 100% 67%
Clear Creek nr 75% 0%(a) 86% 12% 16% 11% 40%
Costilla nr nr nr nr nr nr nr nr
Crowley nr nr nr 100% nr nr nr 100%
Custer nr nr nr 67% 0%(a) 0%(c) 0%(a) 16%
Delta 100% 17% 100% 62% 8% 12% 19% 26%
Denver 34% 50% 21% 49% 6% 4% 6% 13%
Dolores nr nr nr 100% 0%(a) 8% nr 29%
Douglas 50% 55% 16% 78% 13% 20% 15% 29%
Eagle nr 33% 30% 76% 17% 14% 23% 29%
El Paso 79% 31% 24% 73% 11% 21% 16% 28%
Elbert nr 100% nr 79% 9% 28% 21% 40%
Fremont 0%(a) 27% 0%(a) 42% 5% 10% 18% 18%
Garfield 0%(a) 41% 50% 80% 22% 18% 14% 39%
Gilpin nr 0%(a) 0%(a) 88% 0%(a) 32% 20% 43%
Grand nr 0%(a) 0%(a) 98% 38% 26% 57% 42%
Gunnison nr 0%(a) 33% 85% 11% 9% 6% 24%
Hinsdale nr nr nr nr nr 13% nr 13%
Huerfano nr 0%(a) 0%(a) 85% 10% 14% 80% 32%
Jackson nr nr nr 100% 0%(a) 7% 50% 24%
Jefferson 100% 35% 23% 70% 10% 24% 9% 30%
Kiowa nr nr nr 100% 100% 100% nr 100%
Kit Carson nr 67% nr 91% 29% 15% 50% 34%
La Plata 100% 39% 33% 81% 21% 38% 41% 44%
Lake nr 100% 100% 98% 19% 31% 67% 74%
Larimer 75% 31% 37% 54% 10% 16% 11% 24%
Las Animas 0%(a) 50% 50% 78% 12% 23% 7% 37%
Lincoln nr nr nr 100% 100% 81% 67% 83%
Logan nr 88% 50% 88% 7% 18% 44% 34%
Mesa 100% 25% 14% 68% 11% 20% 20% 30%
Mineral nr nr nr 100% nr nr 100% 100%
Moffat nr 0%(a) 40% 55% 33% 23% 36% 37%
Montezuma 100% nr 100% 70% 8% 13% 13% 30%
Montrose 100% 71% 67% 83% 7% 20% 24% 34%
Morgan nr 100% 60% 90% 18% 21% 33% 41%
Otero nr 33% 57% 64% 10% 9% 20% 27%
Ouray nr nr nr 25% 0%(a) 0%(c) 0%(a) 5%
Park 100% 0%(a) nr 96% 11% 15% 21% 45%
Phillips nr nr nr 78% 33% 25% nr 44%
Pitkin nr 38% 0%(a) 74% 16% 18% 31% 30%
Prowers nr 100% 0%(a) 78% 7% 11% 20% 20%
Pueblo 57% 15% 8% 27% 5% 17% 5% 17%
Rio Blanco nr nr nr 78% 0%(a) 6% 0%(a) 37%
Rio Grande nr 100% nr 87% 27% 26% 36% 48%
Routt 100% 25% 50% 79% 7% 10% 29% 26%
Saguache nr nr nr 88% 0%(b) 22% 0%(a) 43%
San Juan nr nr nr 60% 0%(a) 13% 100% 23%
San Miguel nr nr nr 53% 15% 6% 10% 16%
Sedgwick nr nr nr 50% 0%(a) 0%(a) nr 17%
Summit nr 25% 0%(a) 60% 5% 10% 17% 15%
Teller 50% 75% 100% 85% 9% 22% 8% 41%
Washington nr nr nr 100% 14% 4% 33% 52%
Weld 100% 36% 21% 71% 12% 18% 19% 30%
Yuma nr nr nr 88% 14% 17% 25% 38%

 

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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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