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Number of Crime Incidents in Jefferson County

Count of all incidents, not rate per population. The vast majority are theft.

Blank does not mean zero; it means our sources did not show the data.

Customizable map & lists of crimes reported to the Sheriff, by date & type

More data are on state police website

US per 1000 people		People in County	Number of Crime Incidents Reported to:										Sources of data
	Year		Total per 1000 people		State Police	Sheriff per 1000 people		Shepherd Univ	Ranson	Charles Town	Shepherds- town	HF/ Bolivar
53	1995	39,241	1,112	28	505	250	6		179	138	21		95-97 reports (no towns) at: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm#cius PNGaming.com provided: http://listener.homestead.com/files/crimewv95.htm Total rate confirmed at http://www.wvstatepolice.com/ucr/1995wvcrimes.pdf
51	1996	39,687	921	23	365	191	5		139	170	56		Some items from http://www.wvstatepolice.com/ucr/1996wvcrimes.pdf
49	1997	40,182	776	19	283	202	5		90	158	22	21	97-98 reports at (cited to state police, Kearneysville) http://www.jcda.net/crimerates97-98.xls http://www.wvstatepolice.com/ucr/1998wvcrimes.pdf
46	1998	40,769	953	23	369	274	7		110	164	16	20	Total rate confirmed at http://www.wvstatepolice.com/ucr/1998wvcrimes.pdf
43	1999	41,553
41	2000	42,438			421					114			http://www.wvstatepolice.com/ucr/2001wvcrimes.pdf
42	2001	43,295			360					57			http://www.wvstatepolice.com/ucr/2001wvcrimes.pdf
41	2002	44,698			372	467 Sheriff 169 WV	10	22					http://www.wvstatepolice.com/ucr/2002wvcrimes.pdf
41	2003	45,972			375	839 Sheriff 74 WV	18	30		47	3	4	http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_03/xl/03tbl08A.xls http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_03/pdf/03sec2.pdf http://www.wvstatepolice.com/ucr/2003wvcrimes.pdf
40	2004	47,057	1,292 incl. Sheriff	27	377	839 Sheriff 87 WV	18	26	17	25		8	FBI 2004 offenses, table 11 http://www.wvstatepolice.com/ucr/2004wvcrimes.pdf
39	2005	48,542	1,691 incl. Sheriff	35	378	1,184 Sheriff 359 WV	24	20	22	83		4	http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/data/table_09.html#wv http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/data/table_08_wv.html http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/data/table_11.html#wv
38	2006	49,712	2,038 incl. Sheriff	41	377 WV 358 FBI	1,414 Sheriff 453 WV 460 FBI	28	34	75	98		12	Sheriff 2002-06 at http://listener.homestead.com/files/sheriff.xls FBI at http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2006/offenses/index.html http://www.wvstatepolice.com/ucr/2006wvcrimes.pdf
	2007	50,832	1,056 incl. FBI	21	346	491 FBI	10	24	49	110	4	22	http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2007/offenses/index.html Tables 8-cities, 9-colleges, 10-sheriff, 11-state police (Kearneysville). PNGaming.com provided: (click & go to p.552): http://listener.homestead.com/files/crimeus2007.htm

Multiple numbers in a cell are alternative figures from different sources. They are not to be added together: choose one.

National crime rates have dropped steadily since 1991: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2006/data/table_01.html

Census Population estimates as of July 1 each year

Crime Total is only shown when major towns provided data. We include the Sheriff's own data for his office when available.

State Police data for 2003-2007 are for Kearneysville office, not necessarily same as Jefferson County. 
 
FBI & State Police only count "Index Offenses:" Murder, Rape, Robbery, Arson, Aggravated Assault, Burglary, Motor Vehicle Theft, and Larceny. Most offenses reported are the various forms of theft. http://www.ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/ojstatbb/Compendium/asp/Compendium.asp?selData=3
 
Excluded are "Part II offenses," lots of other typically less serious offenses like drug sales, disturbances, drunken behavior, simple assaults, which virtually no one uses for crime rates, and are less often reported to police than the index crimes but can affect communities. Police may voluntarily send arrest counts (not all reported incidents) for Part II offenses to the FBI, and in any case the FBI does not include them in the numbers above. The link to detailed Sheriff data shows he also largely excludes these, so it is not clear why his numbers are so different from WV & FBI. All these numbers exclude traffic tickets.

An incident may include more than one crime, such as aggravated assault and burglary

Subtotals by type of incident and by location usually are smaller than the totals above, because of incompleteness in the manual systems used. Here is a map of 10 geographic areas in the county, which the Sheriff uses to classify crimes' locations.