In 1986, the State ranked 40th in violent crime, with a rate of 257.9 per 100,000 and 36th in property crime, with a rate of 3,838.9. These rates are lower than those for the Midwest and for the United States as a whole. The State ranked 43 for murder, 43 for forcible rape, 37 for robbery, 41 for aggravated assault, 44 for burglary, 26 for theft, 33 for motor vehicle theft, and could not be ranked for arson because of insufficient data. An examination of crime trends over the past 6 years indicates that, while both property and violent crime rates for Wisconsin and for the Midwest were lower than for the Nation as a whole, they increased at a slightly higher rate than in the rest of the United States. Figures and tables.