Texas Clearance Percentages for Major Crimes by County, Part 2 G-M (2007)

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County Murder Rape Robbery Assault Burglary Larceny Vehicle Theft All
Gaines nr 50% 0%(a) 72% 9% 21% 14% 36%
Galveston 42% 32% 27% 58% 13% 17% 27% 31%
Garza nr 100% 0%(a) 62% 8% 11% 80% 37%
Gillespie 0%(a) 0%(a) nr 71% 14% 12% 20% 20%
Glasscock nr nr nr nr nr nr nr nr
Goliad nr nr 17% 80% 5% 36% 80% 37%
Gonzales 100% 44% 89% 64% 32% 25% 40% 42%
Gray 0%(a) 11% 0%(a) 24% 5% 7% 21% 13%
Grayson 25% 25% 23% 28% 8% 10% 20% 16%
Gregg 43% 46% 27% 42% 10% 22% 23% 26%
Grimes nr 100% 45% 81% 23% 20% 41% 41%
Guadalupe 0%(a) 63% 41% 67% 26% 29% 42% 43%
Hale 100% 100% 62% 93% 24% 30% 66% 45%
Hall nr nr 0%(a) 58% 7% 23% 25% 28%
Hamilton nr 0%(a) 0%(a) 17% 0% 15% 17% 12%
Hansford nr nr nr 65% 29% 21% 100% 39%
Hardeman nr nr nr 42% 2% 15% 29% 17%
Hardin 100% 64% 67% 87% 40% 44% 61% 57%
Harris 73% 37% 18% 39% 7% 13% 6% 19%
Harrison 80% 42% 40% 52% 8% 21% 51% 28%
Hartley nr nr nr 80% 13% 0%(a) 0%(a) 22%
Haskell nr 100% 100% 90% 37% 45% 50% 52%
Hays 100% 14% 33% 47% 7% 17% 10% 23%
Hemphill nr nr nr 35% 6% 17% nr 20%
Henderson 114% 82% 60% 52% 24% 28% 35% 35%
Hidalgo 92% 40% 37% 51% 12% 13% 11% 24%
Hill nr 50% 71% 81% 35% 41% 67% 54%
Hockley nr 62% 50% 85% 27% 27% 69% 46%
Hood nr nr 600% 57% 12% 23% 32% 33%
Hopkins nr 100% 50% 84% 50% 53% 59% 65%
Houston nr 50% 100% 57% 8% 12% 29% 24%
Howard 100% 22% 50% 69% 12% 22% 37% 37%
Hudspeth nr nr 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%
Hunt 40% 25% 30% 47% 6% 11% 18% 22%
Hutchinson 200% 25% 31% 38% 10% 8% 17% 16%
Irion nr nr nr 60% 0%(a) 0%(a) nr 17%
Jack nr nr nr 64% 22% 22% 28% 36%
Jackson nr 100% 50% 89% 44% 41% 73% 54%
Jasper 100% 900% 145% 99% 55% 61% 77% 77%
Jeff Davis nr nr nr 91% 14% 33% nr 54%
Jefferson 80% 56% 35% 81% 13% 24% 39% 42%
Jim Hogg nr nr nr 34% 0%(c) 2% 0%(a) 16%
Jim Wells 0%(a) 8% 50% 45% 17% 10% 34% 24%
Johnson 33% 15% 43% 75% 12% 19% 22% 39%
Jones 100% 71% nr 59% 20% 29% 80% 40%
Karnes nr 33% 0%(a) 75% 31% 26% 60% 48%
Kaufman 33% 27% 26% 39% 6% 15% 17% 21%
Kendall 100% 57% nr 63% 20% 17% 15% 34%
Kenedy nr nr nr 60% nr 0%(a) nr 38%
Kent nr nr nr 50% 166% 0%(a) 0%(a) 42%
Kerr nr 65% 85% 89% 29% 42% 48% 56%
Kimble nr nr nr 47% 20% 17% 0%(a) 35%
King nr nr nr nr nr nr nr nr
Kinney nr nr 100% 89% 100% 75% nr 85%
Kleberg 100% 7% 24% 31% 7% 6% 24% 14%
Knox nr 0%(a) nr 78% 22% 59% 0%(a) 54%
La Salle nr nr nr 22% 0%(c) 1% nr 15%
Lamar 100% 50% 48% 51% 17% 24% 32% 33%
Lamb nr nr 33% 40% 9% 10% 24% 21%
Lampasas 100% 40% 100% 77% 22% 31% 64% 48%
Lavaca nr 25% 100% 81% 13% 17% 36% 37%
Lee nr 50% 0%(a) 56% 21% 23% 42% 37%
Leon 100% 100% 150% 60% 13% 31% 25% 35%
Liberty 83% 52% 34% 71% 17% 26% 28% 38%
Limestone 0%(a) 100% 82% 70% 19% 20% 34% 36%
Lipscomb nr 100% nr 100% 71% 13% nr 65%
Live Oak 100% nr nr 35% 14% 11% 45% 22%
Llano nr 40% 33% 71% 11% 11% 37% 32%
Lubbock 93% 41% 36% 39% 9% 16% 28% 23%
Lynn nr 0%(a) nr 81% 17% 20% 33% 36%
Madison nr 25% 50% 57% 11% 17% 31% 29%
Marion nr 50% 100% 68% 13% 26% 38% 33%
Martin nr nr nr 100% 28% 0%(c) 100% 29%
Mason nr 100% nr 78% 25% 14% 100% 43%
Matagorda 100% 36% 59% 62% 17% 20% 45% 38%
Maverick 100% 18% 29% 24% 3% 12% 7% 15%
McCulloch nr 0%(a) 67% 51% 6% 8% 38% 27%
McLennan 100% 42% 26% 75% 16% 24% 32% 36%
McMullen 0%(a) nr nr 67% nr 0%(a) 0%(a) 33%
Medina nr 37% 100% 38% 12% 16% 40% 24%
Menard nr nr nr 100% nr 50% 100% 90%
Midland 75% 26% 26% 80% 11% 16% 26% 41%
Milam 100% 57% 22% 82% 11% 14% 37% 31%
Mills nr nr 0%(a) 29% 0%(a) 15% 0%(a) 21%
Mitchell nr 88% 100% 100% 38% 40% 75% 64%
Montague nr 60% 0%(a) 66% 14% 17% 51% 31%
Montgomery 86% 74% 38% 55% 14% 19% 10% 29%
Moore nr 71% 50% 77% 15% 11% 52% 39%
Morris nr 20% 100% 65% 31% 37% 50% 43%
Motley nr nr nr 100% 0%(a) 0%(a) nr 8%

 

Texas Clearance Percentages for Major Crimes by County, Part 1 A-F (2007)

Texas Clearance Percentages for Major Crimes by County, Part 3 N-Z (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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