CRIME IN MARYLAND

CRIME IN MARYLAND

2016 UNIFORM CRIME REPORT

GOVERNOR LARRY HOGAN LT. GOVERNOR BOYD K. RUTHERFORD

COLONEL WILLIAM M. PALLOZZI MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE

CENTRAL RECORDS DIVISION

IDA J. WILLIAMS, DIVISION DIRECTOR

UNIFORM CRIME

REPORTING PROGRAM

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Executive Summary

An annual release since 1975, Crime in Maryland reports crime statistics provided by Maryland Law Enforcement agencies to the State's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program under the Maryland Department of State Police. Crime in Maryland details crime incidents, clearance rates, arrests, law enforcement officers killed or assaulted, and law enforcement employee data. The statewide UCR Program was developed to report crime in Maryland to the National UCR Program administered by the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The Maryland program has evolved to collect data on domestic violence, hate bias, and carjacking incidents and arrests. Reports and statistics pertaining to hate bias incidents and their associated arrests are released in a separate Maryland Department of State Police publication.

The UCR Program collects information on crimes that have been selected as an index to represent crime in the United States. These index crimes are murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, breaking or entering, larceny-theft and motor vehicle theft. Although not an index crime, data pertaining to the crime of arson is also included.

The Maryland Department of State Police recognizes the significant delay in the publication of the 2016 UCR. The delay was the direct result of impediments encountered by data contributors as they upgraded to automated record management systems. Crime data modernization is a top priority for the UCR Program and challenges are expected as law enforcement moves closer to a more efficient collection of relevant crime data.

There were 168,538 total crime incidents reported in 2016 compared to 172,182 in 2015. The crime index total decreased two percent in 2016 when compared to 2015. Violent crime increased two percent. The violent crime group consists of murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. Property crime decreased three percent. The composition of the property crime group is breaking or entering, larceny-theft and motor vehicle theft. The summary for the 2016 index crimes is as follows:

Murder Rape Robbery Aggravated Assault

- 3.4% + 3.2% + 6.5% - 0.1%

Breaking or Entering Larceny-Theft Motor Vehicle Theft Arson

- 7.2% - 2.6% + 2.1% - 6.6%

There were 202,108 arrests reported in 2016 compared to 212,623 in 2015. Arrests in Maryland decreased five percent in 2016, when compared to 2015. Of the total arrests, 181,060 were adults and 21,048 were juvenile. When compared to adult and juvenile arrests in 2015 this is a decrease of 4.7 percent and 7.3 percent respectively. Arrests for drug offenses totaled 33,093 in 2016. This is a three percent increase when compared to drug offense arrests reported in 2015. In 2016, 19,336 persons were arrested for driving under the influence. This is a decrease of 5.5 percent when compared to driving under the influence arrests reported in 2015.

Three Maryland law enforcement officers died in the line of duty during 2016. There were 2,672 Maryland law enforcement officers assaulted in 2016. This represents a decrease of seven percent over similar assaults reported in 2015 and equates to 17 percent of full time law enforcement officers employed in Maryland. In 2016, there was a less than one percent decrease in the number of full-time law enforcement officers in Maryland. There were 15,652 full-time law enforcement officers in 2016 compared to 15,720 in 2015. In both 2015 and 2016, this equated to 2.6 full-time law enforcement officers per 1,000 of population.

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