NCJ Number
225820
Date Published
September 2008
Length
183 pages
Annotation
This report provides an analysis of crime in Hawaii for 2006 as reported under the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program.
Abstract
Highlights of the report include: (1) Hawaii’s Index Crime rate decreased in 2006, down 9.7 percent from 2005; (2) a total of 58,347 Index Crimes were reported statewide in 2006; (3) the reported violent Index Crime rate increased 5.2 percent and reported property Index Crime rate decreased 10.5 percent; (4) Hawaii’s total property Index Crime rates in 2006 were, respectively, 24.5 percent and 25.8 percent below the rates reported a decade earlier (1997); however, the violent Index Crime rate increased 2.2 percent over the course of the decade; (5) adult arrests comprised 70.9 percent of all Index Crime arrests in 2006 and juvenile arrests accounted for 29.1 percent; (6) the number of statewide Index Crime arrests decreased 7.0 percent in 2006; (7) in 2006, 340 assaults on Hawaii’s police officers were recorded; and (8) on October 31, 2006, a total of 2,942 police officers and 787 civilians were employed by the four county police departments, denoting a 5.5 percent increase in both officers and civilians from the same time in 2005. The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program initiated by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) is administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The purpose of the State-level UCR program is to collect data from local law enforcement agencies and assure compliance with standards developed jointly by the FBI and IACP. The Research and Statistics Branch of the Crime Prevention Division, the current residence for Hawaii’s UCR program collects and reviews the UCR reports received from the four county police departments before forwarding the data to the FBI. Tables, figures, and appendixes A-D