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Crime rates may be displayed as:
Local law enforcement agencies report complaints and arrests for crimes in Oregon to the Law Enforcement Data System of the Oregon State Police. Summaries of these reports are published annually. Violations of particular statutes are summarized in 28 categories, the Uniform Crime Report crimes (UCR Crime). In each section below, a query is constructed to generate a chart or table from this data. For definitions of crime categories and how specific crimes are categorized, click here.
Data from all law enforcement agencies in the state are not always available, or may be incomplete. Anomalous data may be the result of incomplete reporting, and not all crimes are reported to police agencies. A summary of known gaps in reporting is available by clicking here.
The graphs are created as "PNG graphics" by default. This is a relatively new format that may not be supported by older web browsers. If you are unable to view the graphs, try selecting "JPG graphics" instead.
Data displayed in tables may be selected, copied, and pasted to a spreadsheet or other file on the users computer for further analysis.
Crimes may be grouped as Person, Property, Behavior, and Index Crimes.
This query presents total crime rates grouped into the three categories of Person, Property, and Behavior Crimes reported from Oregon counties or statewide. The separate Index Crime statistic was created by the FBI to provide a general measure of crime rates across jurisdictions and over time. Index Crimes include the Person crimes of murder and non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault and the Property crimes of burglary, larceny-theft, motor-vehicle theft, and arson.
These graphs and tables will show reported offenses or arrests as reported to the Law Enforcement Data System by local agencies as the number of reports per 10,000 population. Also available are corresponding rates for juvenile arrests based on the juvenile population (ages 0 through 17). Person, Property, and Behavior crimes combine to show the total crime rate on the graphs. The Index Crime rate is a separate measure which is superimposed upon these. Note that the "Index Crime Rate" refers to reported offenses. While we show arrests for Index crimes, that is different from what is usually referred to as the "Index Crime Rate."
There are two options here. Option 1 displays the full summary rates for the total population or for the juvenile population. Option 2 displays only the Person Index and Property Index summary crime groups for the total population or for the juvenile population. Estimated national rates are shown for comparison purposes in Option 2.
What Are the Offense and Arrest Statistics For Specific UCR Crimes?
Use this query to generate a line graph and table of reported offenses, arrests, or juvenile arrests by Oregon county or statewide. The graphs and tables will show the total number of reports for offenses or arrests as reported to the Law Enforcement Data System by local agencies. Also shown are the corresponding rates as the number of reports per 10,000 population (or for the population age 0-17 for juvenile arrests).
For county data, the statewide rate is also presented in the tables, and appears as a green line on the graphs for purposes of comparison.
For What Proportion of Arrests do Juveniles Account?
This section will show the proportion of all arrestees who are juveniles. The data is presented in two separate graphs and a table. The first graph is a line graph showing the overall crime rate for the selected offense in red, the percent proportion of arrestees who are juveniles in blue, and the percent proportion of the population who are juveniles in green. The second graph is an "accumulated line plot" in which the juvenile and adult arrests add to give the total arrest rate for the selected offense or crime group.
Oregon data parallel national data to a surprising extent. For example, compare the results from the queries here to these charts excerpted from Chapter 5 of Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 1999 National Report, a publication of the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Please note that rates shown are per 100,000 instead of per 10,000, and calculated based on the population age 10-17 rather than age 0-17 as presented on this site. Also of interest is the Dec. 2001 report Law Enforcement and Juvenile Crime that provides more recent data and discusses potential problems with the use of juvenile arrest statistics from the Uniform Crime Reporting program.
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