Source: Headlight Data; FBI

Notes: The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program tracks crime reported by local police agencies. Reporting is voluntary, so some agencies skip months or whole years, which makes raw totals uneven over time. State and U.S. figures are the FBI’s published estimates from Crime in the United States, Table 4 (Table 5 for 2000–2002). County figures are built from each agency’s monthly Return A reports, with every agency assigned to its county. Gaps are filled by Headlight with the FBI’s method: agencies reporting 3–11 months are scaled to a full year, and those reporting fewer are estimated from similar agencies’ rates. Metros are the sum of their member counties. Rates are per 100,000 residents using Census population.

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