Virginia Clearance Percentages for Major Crimes by City/County, Part 2 L-Y (2006)

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County Murder Rape Robbery Assault Burglary Larceny Vehicle
Theft
All
King William
nr 100% 50% 92% 14% 39% 69% 62%
King and Queen
nr nr nr 67% 13% 14% 0%(a) 33%
Lancaster
100% 50% 0%(a) 64% 10% 9% 0%(a) 28%
Lee
nr 100% 25% 84% 8% 14% 0%(b) 24%
Lexington city
nr nr 100% 77% 25% 21% 0%(a) 36%
Loudoun
50% 50% 28% 45% 23% 14% 20% 27%
Louisa
100% 67% 0%(a) 59% 18% 6% 16% 23%
Lunenburg
nr 33% nr 61% 6% 12% 40% 26%
Lynchburg city
100% 41% 31% 42% 15% 24% 21% 31%
Madison
nr 100% nr 82% 8% 15% 45% 43%
Manassas Park city
nr 67% 13% 64% 6% 9% 15% 29%
Manassas city
50% 25% 29% 51% 9% 7% 10% 25%
Martinsville city
nr 20% 17% 82% 14% 25% 26% 43%
Mathews
nr nr nr 76% 15% 12% 38% 36%
Mecklenburg
nr 42% 65% 70% 15% 17% 23% 34%
Middlesex
100% 50% 0%(a) 61% 13% 9% 30% 33%
Montgomery
100% 36% 38% 49% 15% 14% 24% 29%
Nelson
nr nr nr 44% 4% 2% 18% 17%
New Kent
nr 25% 60% 53% 11% 11% 12% 27%
Newport News city
63% 42% 27% 67% 18% 19% 9% 39%
Norfolk city
33% 29% 16% 35% 12% 10% 10% 17%
Northampton
50% 100% 40% 95% 19% 20% 29% 43%
Northumberland
nr 33% 0%(a) 90% 37% 19% 40% 46%
Norton city
nr 0%(a) 100% 80% 15% 30% 25% 38%
Nottoway
0%(a) 50% 22% 73% 24% 15% 35% 37%
Orange
0%(a) 33% 43% 39% 2% 14% 14% 22%
Page
0%(a) 67% 0%(a) 60% 7% 5% 8% 21%
Patrick
nr 14% 50% 89% 24% 28% 17% 44%
Petersburg city
50% 33% 19% 52% 13% 15% 6% 28%
Pittsylvania
100% 42% 25% 77% 12% 19% 11% 42%
Poquoson city
nr nr 0%(a) 85% 21% 17% 50% 43%
Portsmouth city
61% 24% 16% 55% 9% 10% 12% 27%
Powhatan
nr 100% 33% 80% 12% 9% 61% 36%
Prince Edward
nr 0%(a) 0%(a) 67% 3% 6% 0%(a) 22%
Prince George
nr 50% 27% 54% 21% 14% 40% 31%
Prince William
64% 49% 28% 71% 16% 17% 13% 32%
Pulaski
33% 57% 71% 83% 32% 26% 38% 44%
Radford city
nr 100% nr 41% 0%(a) 1% nr 10%
Rappahannock
100% 100% 50% 83% 33% 8% 25% 44%
Richmond
nr 100% 50% 82% 25% 39% 47% 55%
Richmond city
55% 37% 20% 38% 13% 10% 10% 20%
Roanoke
nr 10% 6% 17% 3% 7% 7% 11%
Roanoke city
75% 43% 29% 63% 19% 22% 33% 41%
Rockbridge
nr 57% 0%(a) 87% 30% 17% 29% 39%
Rockingham
100% 64% 80% 69% 15% 15% 10% 26%
Russell
0%(a) 10% 75% 83% 15% 18% 23% 43%
Salem city
nr 67% 69% 75% 28% 19% 52% 38%
Scott
67% 50% 33% 85% 10% 12% 27% 30%
Shenandoah
nr nr 86% 74% 10% 15% 8% 39%
Smyth
0%(a) 31% 33% 84% 34% 22% 35% 48%
South Boston city
nr 0%(a) 7% 33% 15% 20% 27% 23%
Southampton
100% 0%(a) 20% 28% 10% 4% 10% 13%
Spotsylvania
75% 28% 47% 35% 0%(a) 12% 3% 22%
Stafford
75% 36% 46% 59% 22% 16% 31% 34%
Staunton city
nr 0%(a) 25% 59% 9% 15% 24% 29%
Suffolk city
75% 33% 21% 57% 11% 13% 19% 33%
Surry
nr 100% 50% 81% 7% 21% 0%(a) 47%
Sussex
100% 29% 33% 58% 16% 21% 50% 36%
Tazewell
100% 25% 57% 74% 15% 26% 40% 36%
Virginia Beach city
74% 59% 28% 78% 25% 22% 24% 42%
Warren
0%(a) 25% 85% 56% 7% 13% 21% 28%
Washington
nr 32% 46% 78% 25% 21% 25% 34%
Waynesboro city
nr 100% 46% 60% 17% 26% 31% 40%
Westmoreland
67% 0%(a) 38% 68% 17% 15% 19% 39%
Williamsburg city
100% 17% 44% 79% 23% 16% 43% 37%
Winchester city
nr 40% 23% 62% 13% 30% 8% 39%
Wise
50% 33% 14% 83% 15% 23% 35% 44%
Wythe
100% 22% 50% 74% 21% 13% 36% 25%
York
50% 38% 32% 58% 19% 13% 6% 28%

 

VirginiaClearance Percentages for major Crimes by City/County, Part 1 A-K (2006)

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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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