NCJ Number
143230
Date Published
1992
Length
43 pages
Annotation
This summarized report on crime in Texas during the first half of 1992 was compiled from data submitted to the Texas Department of Public Safety by 856 Texas Sheriffs and Chiefs of Police representing jurisdictions that cover 99.9 percent of Texas' population.
Abstract
To track variations in crime, the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) summarizes crime information as the Crime Index. The seven crimes that compose the Crime Index are murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft. By mandate of the U.S. Congress, arson became the eighth index crime in 1979. Because arson reporting is not standardized and in order to continue creating comparable data reports, arson is not included as a part of the Crime Index total. For each of the index crimes, the UCR program collects reports on the number of crimes committed, and for non-index crimes the program tracks only reports of actual arrests. This report indicates that for the first 6 months of 1992, the Index Crime total was 618,193 in Texas, compared with 651,399 for the first 6 months of 1991, a decrease of 5.1 percent. There were 1,102 murders, an 8.8-percent decrease from 1991; 4,730 rapes, a 2.6-percent increase; 22,680 robberies, a 3.4-percent decrease; 43,085 aggravated assaults, a 6.6-percent increase; 135,259 burglaries, a 10.6-percent decrease; 338,885 larceny-thefts, a 4.2-percent decrease; and 72,452 motor vehicle thefts, a 5.6-percent decrease. Data show population-area crime trends, law enforcement officer assaults and deaths, arrest data, and crime by jurisdiction.