Crime Statistics

This blog is about the statistics in crime across the United States. Through this website i was able to narrow the search down to South Carolina and then it gave me a list of individual cities, where i found the crime statistics of columbia. The results were kind of shocking to me and kind of hard for me to figure out a reason why the stats are the way they are. The total violent crime rate average has gone down since 1980, which i find very hard to believe. I find it hard to believe because the economy is not good right now and usually when the economy is down more crime usually follows. When the economy is bad you need money and for some the only way for them to obtain money is through crime. Also there is a gap and not every single year is accounted for since 1980. This seems to parallel something we talked about in class about altered statistics for a specific outcome. I think they left out years on the list so it would support there hypothesis that violent crime rate is not occurring as often

Number of Violent Crimes Reported by Columbia Polic by Year and Total

Year Population Murder/ Man- slaughter Rape Robbery Aggravated Assault Total Violent Crime 2005 117,484 16 55 381 866 1,318 2004 118,378 18 74 465 962 1,519 2003 118,122 15 63 459 813 1,350 2002 118,624 11 96 502 966 1,575 2001 117,349 14 63 476 947 1,500 2000 115,876 12 69 505 925 1,511 1995 104,457 9 90 684 1,411 2,194 1990 98,052 22 103 518 1,318 1,961 1985 100,024 12 67 389 931 1,399 1980 97,104 15 110 595 1,039 1,759

South Carolina Counties