Virginia’s annual crime analysis report now available on VSP website
From VSP: Virginia’s official and only comprehensive report on local and statewide crime figures for 2008 is now available online at the Virginia State Police website, under “Forms & Publications.” The detailed report, titled Crime in Virginia, provides precise rates and occurrences of crimes committed in towns, cities and counties across the Commonwealth. The report […]
From VSP: Virginia’s official and only comprehensive report on local and statewide crime figures for 2008 is now available online at the Virginia State Police website, under “Forms & Publications.” The detailed report, titled Crime in Virginia, provides precise rates and occurrences of crimes committed in towns, cities and counties across the Commonwealth. The report breaks down criminal offenses by the reporting agency as well as arrests by jurisdiction.
The following 2008 crime trends within Virginia are detailed in the report:
The report employs an Incident Based Reporting (IBR) method for calculating offenses, thus allowing for greater accuracy. The IBR divides crimes into two categories: Group A for serious offenses including violent crimes, murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, property crimes and drug offenses; and Group B, less serious offenses including trespassing, disorderly conduct, bad checks and liquor law violations where an arrest has occurred.
For Group A offenses, between 2007 and 2008, adult arrests in Virginia increased 2 percent. Juvenile offense arrests statewide decreased 2.3 percent during the same time period. Crime in Virginia reports that Group B arrests increased 1.1 percent for adults and almost no change among juveniles (.04 percent) from 2007 to 2008. There were a total of 332,330 arrests in 2007 compared to 336,189 arrests in 2008, representing an increase of 1.2 percent.
Per state mandate, the state police serve as the primary collector of crime data from participating Virginia state and local police departments, and sheriff’s offices. The data is collected by the Virginia State Police Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division via an automated system, and then compiled into a concise report for use by law enforcement, elected officials, media and the general public.
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