The eight offenses addressed in the data are murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson. The first four compose the Violent Crime Index, and the last four make up the Property Crime Index. In 1994, a total of 266,092 Crime Index offenses were reported in the State. This was a 4.8-percent increase over 1993. Violent offenses amounted to 13.8 percent of the total number of offenses in 1994; a total of 561 murders occurred in the State, a decrease of 4.4 percent over 1993. There were 1,780 forcible rapes reported in 1994. Property offenses composed 86.2 percent of the total 1994 Crime Index. There were 228,901 Property Index offenses reported in 1994, an increase of 5.5 percent compared to 1993. In 22.9 of every 100 Crime Index offenses, the cases were cleared by arrest or exceptional means. 64 tables and 17 figures