NCJ Number
207072
Date Published
July 2004
Length
182 pages
Annotation
This report presents the 2003 Hawaii Uniform Crime Report (UCR) statistics.
Abstract
Hawaii’s UCR program complies data on crimes reported to police and arrests made by police. The data indicate that Hawaii’s Index Crime rate decreased 8.9 percent from 2002, due mainly to a 12.0 percent drop in the Index Crime rate in the city and county of Honolulu. During 2003, 69,267 Index Crimes were reported in Hawaii; the violent Index Crime rate increased 3.2 percent in 2003, while the property Index Crime rate decreased 9.4 percent. The rate of reported murders, forcible rapes, and robberies decreased 9.3 percent, 2.3 percent, and 4.4 percent, respectively. Each category of the property Index Crime also decreased by a rate of 3.6 percent for motor vehicle theft, 11.2 percent for burglary, and 10.1 percent for larceny-theft. Of all Index Crime arrests in 2003, 73.8 percent were adult arrests and 26.21 percent were juvenile arrests. During 2003, Maui County’s total Index and property crime rates were the highest in the State, with the violent crime rate up 18.1 percent and the property crime rate up 0.9 percent compared with 2002. The violent crime rate in 2003 was highest in Kauai County, with violent crime up 4.0 percent and property crime down 1.4 percent. During 2003, 22 murders were reported in Hawaii, representing the lowest number of reported murders since 1975. Strong-arm weapons were used to accomplish 53.1 percent of the 3,033 murders, robberies, and aggravated assaults reported in Hawaii during 2003, while another 22.0 percent of these crimes were accomplished with unknown or “other” weapons, 13.5 percent with edged weapons, and 11.4 percent with firearms. The value of property stolen during 2003 totaled over $59 million, down 13.5 percent from the estimated total for 2002. Tables, figures, appendixes