Pennsylvania Clearance Percentages for Major Crimes by County (2007)

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County Murder Rape Robbery Assault Burglary Larceny Vehicle Theft All
Adams nr 39% 19% 65% 20% 14% 37% 30%
Allegheny 62% 58% 36% 63% 20% 21% 19% 34%
Armstrong nr 150% 100% 94% 38% 25% 33% 52%
Beaver 50% 25% 32% 67% 19% 26% 29% 37%
Bedford nr 67% 50% 75% 12% 24% 22% 39%
Berks 73% 54% 30% 84% 12% 24% 14% 37%
Blair 67% 71% 42% 71% 15% 14% 30% 35%
Bradford 80% 50% 25% 78% 15% 22% 23% 39%
Bucks 57% 58% 34% 78% 17% 24% 17% 31%
Butler nr 83% 56% 64% 22% 28% 42% 41%
Cambria 200% 63% 52% 76% 15% 21% 15% 35%
Cameron nr 0%(a) nr 90% 17% 20% 50% 48%
Carbon nr 67% 31% 70% 19% 25% 40% 35%
Centre 200% 55% 48% 74% 19% 24% 47% 35%
Chester 83% 65% 41% 78% 15% 24% 24% 35%
Clarion 100% 38% 0%(a) 89% 35% 29% 35% 55%
Clearfield 100% 57% 78% 84% 19% 30% 26% 48%
Clinton 100% 0%(a) 44% 83% 15% 15% 27% 34%
Columbia nr 56% 25% 82% 15% 19% 21% 27%
Crawford 100% 44% 50% 79% 17% 28% 39% 41%
Cumberland 0%(a) 32% 30% 68% 10% 20% 30% 32%
Dauphin 105% 37% 39% 71% 19% 24% 31% 41%
Delaware 27% 35% 32% 56% 19% 21% 22% 29%
Elk nr 50% 50% 48% 14% 16% 36% 26%
Erie 80% 56% 33% 72% 20% 27% 29% 40%
Fayette 88% 59% 54% 81% 20% 22% 21% 46%
Forest nr 25% nr 88% 5% 27% 133% 52%
Franklin 100% 39% 42% 79% 21% 27% 44% 44%
Fulton 100% 80% 50% 96% 17% 25% 38% 50%
Greene nr 120% 22% 97% 28% 25% 30% 50%
Huntingdon nr 50% 38% 89% 17% 41% 57% 57%
Indiana 75% 46% 75% 83% 18% 27% 33% 45%
Jefferson nr 81% 75% 74% 21% 22% 30% 39%
Juniata nr 40% 80% 89% 19% 43% 38% 59%
Lackawanna 100% 23% 25% 52% 7% 11% 7% 19%
Lancaster 77% 37% 34% 80% 18% 28% 27% 38%
Lawrence 100% 52% 52% 83% 19% 32% 18% 39%
Lebanon 100% 32% 51% 74% 23% 25% 34% 39%
Lehigh 55% 53% 27% 64% 11% 22% 16% 31%
Luzerne 92% 32% 36% 77% 13% 16% 19% 28%
Lycoming 67% 50% 30% 85% 20% 28% 35% 41%
McKean nr 10% 33% 59% 16% 11% 14% 27%
Mercer nr 54% 38% 71% 14% 19% 30% 29%
Mifflin 0%(a) 33% 60% 68% 17% 22% 31% 30%
Monroe 0%(a) 35% 37% 80% 14% 30% 22% 36%
Montgomery 60% 65% 41% 72% 24% 29% 22% 36%
Montour nr 0%(a) 50% 68% 31% 12% 11% 30%
Northampton 29% 30% 34% 55% 14% 20% 13% 28%
Northumberland nr 36% 8% 39% 10% 18% 12% 25%
Perry 100% 37% 40% 81% 15% 16% 73% 43%
Philadelphia 58% 67% 30% 40% 15% 15% 21% 26%
Pike 33% 59% 90% 91% 7% 20% 27% 47%
Potter 100% 98% nr 88% 26% 35% 61% 67%
Schuylkill 133% 68% 41% 86% 24% 33% 26% 52%
Snyder nr 38% 40% 78% 30% 45% 46% 54%
Somerset 100% 65% 17% 77% 19% 26% 28% 45%
Sullivan nr 40% nr 95% 12% 15% 60% 37%
Susquehanna nr 86% 75% 92% 29% 24% 28% 53%
Tioga nr 40% 50% 86% 25% 31% 80% 51%
Union nr 25% 0%(a) 82% 27% 24% 50% 46%
Venango 100% 25% 0%(a) 70% 22% 25% 45% 39%
Warren nr 53% 50% 43% 13% 10% 18% 23%
Washington 114% 61% 50% 81% 25% 31% 42% 46%
Wayne 150% 39% 40% 60% 33% 34% 52% 47%
Westmoreland 43% 58% 45% 74% 16% 20% 21% 33%
Wyoming 150% 100% 33% 100% 35% 33% 43% 64%
York 50% 55% 28% 77% 20% 23% 23% 34%

 

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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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