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Wisconsin Crime and Arrests 2002

NCJ Number
203637
Date Published
October 2003
Length
241 pages
Annotation
Based upon monthly crime and arrest reports submitted by over 370 law enforcement agencies throughout Wisconsin for 2002, this report presents statewide information on crime and arrests together with individual sections on each Index Crime, as well as more detailed crime and arrest information for individual jurisdictions within the State.
Abstract
There were 175,576 serious crimes (Index Offenses) reported to the police in 2002, a 1.2-percent decrease from 2001. A total of 448,323 arrests were made in 2002, a 0.2-percent decrease from 2001. Total adult arrests increased by 0.4 percent, but juvenile arrests decreased by 1.6 percent. The 2002 crime rate for the State was 3,219 Index Crimes per each 100,000 residents. This was 22.6 percent lower than the estimated 2002 national crime rate. Overall, 24.3 percent of the Index Crimes were cleared, constituting 3.6 percent less than the 2001 clearance rate of 25.2. The violent Index Crimes increased by 0.7 percent in 2002, but the State's violent crime rate was approximately 55.9 percent less than the national violent crime rate for 2001. Handguns were involved in 40.6 percent of murders in the State in 2002, less than the percentage of 44.4 during 2001. Forcible rape increased by 10.1 percent from 2001, and robbery increased by 6.2 percent. Stolen property amounted to $158,563,378, a 3.0-percent increase from 2001. The property recovery rate of 39.7 percent was 12.4 percent less than the 45.3 percent recovery rate in 2001. The number of reported burglaries increased by 3.4 percent. Theft decreased by 1.5 percent. Nearly 52.9 percent of those arrested for motor vehicle theft in 2002 were juveniles, and nearly 52.6 percent of those arrested for arson were juveniles. There were minor fluctuations throughout all areas of the Part II arrests, but there was a 0.6-percent decrease overall. Two Wisconsin law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty, and there were 576 assaults on law enforcement officers, a 7.7-percent decrease from 2002. There were 34 hate crimes reported in 2002, a 45.2 percent decrease from the previous year. Extensive tables and appended glossary, a description of the use of Uniform Crime Reports statistics by local agencies, hate crime, and arrest trends for 1992-2002