Washington Clearance Percentages for Major Crimes by County (2006)

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County Murder Rape Robbery Assault Burglary Larceny Vehicle
Theft
All
Adams
100% 29% 0%(a) 71% 22% 18% 24% 32%
Asotin
nr 50% nr 83% 17% 12% 21% 35%
Benton
133% 74% 47% 74% 18% 24% 19% 37%
Chelan
100% 60% 52% 80% 18% 16% 20% 31%
Clallam
100% 25% 28% 71% 13% 14% 11% 28%
Clark
80% 52% 39% 76% 11% 18% 6% 29%
Columbia
nr nr nr 31% 10% 4% 33% 11%
Cowlitz
86% 32% 29% 79% 12% 17% 9% 28%
Douglas
0%(a) 40% 46% 62% 7% 18% 27% 26%
Ferry
nr 100% nr 100% 50% 47% 0%(a) 72%
Franklin
67% 45% 44% 87% 11% 15% 9% 35%
Garfield
nr 0%(a) nr 74% 15% 13% 22% 26%
Grant
100% 55% 47% 74% 12% 15% 20% 27%
Grays Harbor
100% 41% 44% 66% 21% 20% 24% 34%
Island
nr 31% 50% 37% 15% 12% 13% 21%
Jefferson
nr 33% 31% 64% 19% 12% 26% 25%
King
53% 36% 26% 49% 8% 11% 7% 16%
Kitsap
100% 55% 44% 82% 21% 22% 29% 43%
Kittitas
nr 41% 40% 50% 8% 8% 5% 16%
Klickitat
nr 100% 100% 72% 19% 21% 27% 36%
Lewis
nr 68% 74% 70% 16% 15% 18% 33%
Lincoln
nr 100% nr 76% 12% 22% 38% 35%
Mason
200% 50% 61% 54% 16% 36% 16% 33%
Okanogan
100% 24% 63% 74% 15% 17% 19% 32%
Pacific
100% 71% 33% 74% 13% 12% 21% 30%
Pend Oreille
100% 50% nr 44% 3% 3% 0%(c) 15%
Pierce
97% 45% 24% 44% 8% 12% 4% 19%
San Juan
nr 0%(a) 50% 52% 8% 11% 9% 19%
Skagit
150% 54% 45% 67% 16% 15% 13% 25%
Skamania
nr 0%(a) nr 58% 5% 24% 13% 29%
Snohomish
67% 56% 31% 72% 9% 19% 4% 24%
Spokane
71% 24% 43% 76% 10% 13% 10% 25%
Stevens
100% 73% 25% 69% 10% 14% 18% 28%
Thurston
100% 45% 37% 73% 11% 24% 9% 32%
Wahkiakum
nr 0%(a) nr 51% 25% 29% 40% 39%
Walla Walla
100% 18% 43% 54% 4% 15% 8% 23%
Whatcom
100% 44% 36% 64% 11% 17% 12% 24%
Whitman
nr 53% 33% 77% 23% 18% 21% 37%
Yakima
90% 62% 38% 78% 16% 22% 17% 31%

 

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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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