State of Delaware NIBRS Crime Report Totals by Jurisdiction
data.delaware.gov | Last Updated 6 Oct 2022Serious crime totals that are reported by each jurisdiction that are listed as "Group A" crimes by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). These totals are used in the Crime in Delaware report provided by the Statistical Analysis Center (SAC).
This dataset has the following 15 columns:
| Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Description | Sample Values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | year | number | The calendar year in which crimes occurred. | 2018 2016 2015 2019 2017 view top 100 |
| Jurisdiction | jurisdiction | text | The law enforcement agency that completed the offense report. A report filed by an agency that entered another agencies jurisdiction would be filed under the reporting agency and not the jurisdiction it fell under. (Ex: Delaware State Police (DSP) entering a town that does not have a police officer present would be reported under the responding DSP Troop.) All towns that DSP provides coverage for and those with no full-time police officers are designated with an asterisk since a significant portion of the reports for that jurisdiction would be completed by the covering agency. | DSP - Troop 1 US Marshals Service Attorney General Newark Greenwood view top 100 |
| Agency Code | agency_code | text | Two character code used to identify a given jurisdiction. | 72 96 DD DK 01 view top 100 |
| County | county | text | County the agency is located within. Towns/agencies with one geographic jurisdiction that spans two counties are identified by the county that contains the majority of their offenses. Multi-county/Statewide agencies are identified as “State”. | Sussex State Kent NCC view top 100 |
| UCR Code | ucr_code | text | An alphanumeric code that the FBI uses to identify crimes reported in the National Incident Based Reporting System. The list of crimes can be found further in this document. | 120 13A 200 240 220 view top 100 |
| Offense Type | offense_type | text | This is a categorization scheme the Delaware Statistical Analysis Center uses to group Delaware's NIBRS data for reporting purposes. There are four categories: Violent, Serious Property, Drug, and Other Property and Social Offenses. The list of offenses in each category can be found further in this document. | Violent Other Property/Social Serious Property Drug view top 100 |
| Main Offense | main_offense | text | There are 24 main offenses/crimes in the FBI's National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS). These offenses are termed “Group A” by the FBI. | Larceny-Theft Assault Sexual Offenses, Forcible Fraud Robbery view top 100 |
| Sub-Offense | sub_offense | text | Most of the 24 main offenses have sub-categories of offenses (e.g., Shoplifting is a sub-category of Larceny-Theft). This field identifies those sub-categories. For the main offenses that have no sub-categories, their names are repeated here. | Statutory Rape (Nonforcible) Arson--Other Arson--Structure Burglary--Attempted Forcible Entry Burglary--Forcible Entry view top 100 |
| Sub-Offense Sub-Category | sub_offense_sub_category | text | The Assault main offense has two primary sub-categories (Aggravated Assault and Simple Assault) and each sub-category, unlike the other 23 main offenses, has its own set of sub-categories (e.g., Aggravated Assault with a Firearm). This section contains those categories. | Assault (Aggravated) with a Firearm Assault (Aggravated) with a Knife Or Cutting Instrument Assault (Aggravated) with Hands, Fists, Feet, Etc.-Aggravated Injury Assault (Aggravated) with Other Dangerous Weapon Intimidation (Other Assaults) view top 100 |
| Occur Frequency (based on main offense) | occur_frequency_based_on_main_offense | text | Since some crimes occur frequently and others infrequently, the Delaware SAC has further classified the 24 main NIBRS offenses into four rough categories to make it easier to generate useful charts and figures. These categories are: Low; Low-Moderate; Moderate; High. The list of crimes included in each category may be found further in this document. | High Low-Moderate Low Moderate view top 100 |
| Number of Offenses Received by Law Enforcement | number_of_offenses_received_by_law_enforcement | number | Total number of offenses reported by that agency for a specific offense. | 0 1 2 3 4 view top 100 |
| Offenses Cleared by Law Enforcement | offenses_cleared_by_law_enforcement | number | Total number of offenses that were considered to have been solved by law enforcement for one of several reasons .For crime reporting and analysis purposes, an offense is considered ‘cleared’ or solved when a suspect is either arrested and subsequently referred for prosecution or cannot be arrested but is otherwise clearly identifiable. | 0 1 2 3 4 view top 100 |
| Clearance Rate | clearance_rate | number | The percentage of offenses that were cleared for that specific offense. | 0.00 100.00 50.00 66.6700 33.3300 view top 100 |
| Adult Arrests | adult_arrests | number | Number of adults arrested for the given offense. There can be more than one arrest for a single criminal offense. | 0 1 2 3 4 view top 100 |
| Juvenile Arrests | juvenile_arrests | number | Number of juveniles arrested for the given offense. There can be more than one arrest for a single criminal offense. | 0 1 2 3 4 view top 100 |