A CrimeIndex score of 100 indicates a crime rate equal to the national or state level. A CrimeIndex score of less than 100 indicates that the crime rate for that locality is below the national/state average. A CrimeIndex score above 100 shows that the crime rate for that locality is above the national/state average. For example, an Overall Crime Score of 300 would indicate the crime rate for that locality is 3 times the national average.
Precisely defines crime according to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) definitions for crime.
Violent crime is composed of the following four offenses:
- Murder (and Non-Negligent Manslaughter): The willful (non-negligent) killing of one human being by another.
- Rape: Penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.
- Robbery: The taking or attempting to take anything of value from the care, custody, or control of a person or persons by force or threat of force or violence and / or by putting the victim in fear.
- Aggravated Assault: An unlawful attack by one person upon another for the purpose of inflicting severe or aggravated bodily injury.
Property crime includes the offenses of:
- Burglary: The unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or theft. To classify an offense as a burglary, the use of force to gain entry need not have occurred.
- Larceny-theft: The unlawful taking, carrying, leading, or riding away of property from the possession or constructive possession of another.
- Motor Vehicle Theft: Motor vehicle theft is defined as the theft or attempted theft of a motor vehicle.
- Arson: As any willful or malicious burning or attempting to burn, with or without intent to defraud, a dwelling house, public building, motor vehicle or aircraft, personal property of another, and other such cases.