Crime Info Comparison
Joshua Jock
January 27th 2015
CJS/231
Teacher: Savaun Perry
There are many different tools that criminologists can use to track and record crime rates. Some of those ways is a Uniform Criminal offenses Report (UCR) that the Fbi (FBI) creates on a annual basis. This kind of data continues to be collected because the late twenties (1929) from 18, 500 different police force agencies. Your data that is noted from various local law enforcement officials is created in a series of different desks that break down population of your area and list every crime separately reported because area. Applying this tool, we now have learned that the crime rates and statistics can differ based on the location that we happen to be surveying. Right here, we are going to check out two enormously different locations and assess the population for the number of burglary crimes reported. Abilene, Texas and Albany, NY happen to be from two totally different says across the country and vary in numerous more ways than simply their inhabitants. For the purposes of this paper, we intend to look at the theft rates of Abilene, The state of texas and Albany, New York. In 2012, Abilene was reported to possess a population of 168, 908. There were a total of 1, 245 actual reported cases of burglary from this metropolitan area that consists of Callahan, Williams and Taylor Counties (Crime in the United States, 2012) In 2013, the population on this metropolitan location dropped to 168, 117 but for a variety of reasons the number of robberies reported grew to 1, 323 (Crime in the us 2013). This year Albany, Ny was reported to have a population of 876, 182 with reported burglary cases of 4, 194 in this city area which is made up of Albany, Schenectady and Troy, New York. The population from the Albany, Ny metropolitan area increased to 876, 869 but the real reported robberies dropped to three, 738. Unsurprisingly, both areas are different in terms of population and reported number of...
