South Carolina Clearance Percentages for Major Crimes by County (2006)

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County Murder Rape Robbery Assault Burglary Larceny Vehicle
Theft
All
Abbeville
100% 43% 63% 61% 16% 18% 17% 36%
Aiken
90% 32% 28% 60% 8% 14% 14% 29%
Allendale
67% 67% 15% 29% 15% 13% 25% 22%
Anderson
67% 49% 36% 61% 15% 17% 18% 32%
Bamberg
75% 60% 40% 47% 7% 17% 13% 26%
Barnwell
100% 67% 35% 78% 14% 27% 52% 50%
Beaufort
67% 65% 29% 79% 13% 19% 13% 45%
Berkeley
83% 49% 29% 60% 13% 15% 8% 34%
Calhoun
nr 0%(a) 0%(a) 64% 17% 20% 17% 39%
Charleston
68% 38% 22% 52% 11% 17% 9% 29%
Cherokee
100% 46% 25% 29% 10% 12% 10% 19%
Chester
80% 40% 24% 32% 8% 10% 10% 20%
Chesterfield
100% 17% 35% 33% 13% 16% 22% 23%
Clarendon
nr 13% 14% 18% 10% 8% 9% 13%
Colleton
100% 20% 27% 75% 14% 18% 18% 44%
Darlington
100% 44% 37% 71% 14% 27% 23% 43%
Dillon
75% 29% 23% 40% 11% 19% 4% 25%
Dorchester
50% 40% 27% 40% 10% 11% 6% 23%
Edgefield
100% 40% 0%(a) 53% 14% 15% 24% 34%
Fairfield
57% 67% 50% 67% 31% 24% 28% 48%
Florence
80% 26% 24% 39% 11% 14% 10% 24%
Georgetown
100% 71% 40% 70% 25% 22% 28% 44%
Greenville
81% 50% 31% 74% 16% 21% 22% 37%
Greenwood
40% 30% 38% 40% 15% 17% 17% 28%
Hampton
nr 0%(a) 20% 12% 5% 5% 3% 9%
Horry
92% 34% 19% 43% 10% 17% 10% 25%
Jasper
50% 40% 16% 21% 11% 9% 13% 15%
Kershaw
100% 18% 40% 45% 14% 17% 19% 27%
Lancaster
100% 49% 37% 83% 25% 26% 33% 53%
Laurens
100% 38% 41% 61% 19% 18% 27% 38%
Lee
100% 25% 44% 30% 4% 12% 2% 19%
Lexington
82% 35% 26% 35% 8% 10% 8% 20%
Marion
100% 36% 13% 25% 8% 7% 8% 16%
Marlboro
80% 29% 24% 18% 20% 12% 10% 16%
McCormick
nr 0%(a) 100% 23% 0%(c) 11% 12% 16%
Newberry
nr 50% 48% 69% 47% 42% 43% 54%
Oconee
100% 38% 22% 54% 13% 17% 25% 30%
Orangeburg
88% 27% 23% 50% 9% 12% 15% 26%
Pickens
50% 51% 33% 60% 15% 17% 18% 32%
Richland
87% 29% 29% 35% 11% 12% 7% 19%
Saluda
nr 33% 18% 22% 11% 6% 21% 16%
Spartanburg
70% 44% 25% 57% 12% 14% 12% 25%
Sumter
100% 40% 27% 66% 10% 18% 15% 36%
Union
nr 38% 60% 77% 19% 25% 33% 45%
Williamsburg
50% 14% 10% 25% 4% 9% 11% 14%
York
82% 58% 38% 52% 27% 18% 20% 36%

 

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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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