Posted on 11/23/2025 4:48:07 AM PST by MtnClimber
In August, the FBI released its report on national crime statistics for 2024. Over 14 million crimes were reported to the Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) by participating law enforcement authorities, including state, county, city, university, and tribal agencies.
I was unable to find any comprehensive published analysis of the 2024 data, so I did my own partial study. I was able to extract pertinent data from the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer. I created six tables that I thought might be of interest to American Thinker readers: state violent crime data, state property crime data, and state total crime data.
In each case, there are two charts: one showing the information in alphabetical order by state, and the other in descending order. Because the charts occupy a lot of vertical space, they appear at the bottom of this essay.
Based on the data I was able to extract, here are a few interesting points:
The major drawback of the UCR program is that someone must report a crime to a law enforcement agency, and the agency must then report it to the feds. Thousands of crime victims, for a variety of reasons, do not report crimes, and not all agencies report all crimes they know about to the FBI. Several years ago, neither New York City nor Los Angeles reported crime to the UCR.
Reporting agencies have also been known to fudge the numbers. The bottom line is that the UCR data probably significantly understates the amount of crime.
To offset the reporting shortcomings of the UCR program, the Department of Justice administers the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) each year to approximately 240,000 individuals age 12 or older. The surveys are usually conducted by the Census Bureau and inquire about crime victimization, the crime details,
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UCR is a political tool.
They report all other races as white.
They report hispanics as victims but not as perps, they magically become ‘white’ for that report.
They report an armed robbery as a mere “petty theft”.
They report murders as “unknown causes of death”.
The UCR is 100% completely unreliable.
NH as decent as always.
FL man looking downright moderate here.
They only count the illegals on voting day?.
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