• 1 murder every 24 minutes.
• 1 forcible rape every 5 minutes.
• 1 robbery every 54 seconds.
• 1 aggravated assault every 29 seconds.
• 1 violent crime every 18 seconds.
• 1 property crime every 3 seconds.
• 1 larceny/theft every 4 seconds.
• 1 burglary every 12 seconds.
• 1 motor vehicle theft every 21 seconds.

(Crime in the United States, Uniform Crime Reports, 1995. U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, D.C., released 10/96)

Preliminary findings from the BJS' National Crime Victimization Survey show that U.S. residents age 12 or older experienced approximately 39.6 million crimes: twenty-nine million (74%) were property crimes; 9.9 million (25%) were crimes of violence; and (1%) were personal thefts. (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1997, "Statistics About Crime and Victims, Preliminary Findings from Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics,U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.)

In 1993, slightly over one-third (35.1 percent) of all crimes were reported to police, with 41.6 percent of crimes of violence reported to police. A weapon was used in 27.3 percent of crimes of violence in the United States. (Ibid., pages 245, 236)

From 1973 to 1991, 36.6 million people were injured as a result of violent crime. Annually, about two million people are injured as a result of violent crime. (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1993, "Highlights from 20 Years of Surveying Crime Victims," page 15, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.)

One-third of violent crimes (32 percent) involve a weapon, including 92 percent of aggravated assaults, 55 percent of robberies, and 20 percent of rapes. (Ibid., page 29)

Victimization rates of men exceed those of women in all violent crime categories except for rape and sexual assault. (Crime in the United States, Uniform Crime Reports, 1995. U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, D.C., released 10/96)

During 1994, 138 law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty and 260,341 were assaulted (the highest number of assaults against law enforcement personnel to date). (Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted, 1995. U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, D.C.)

The incarceration rate in federal and state prisons and local jails almost doubled during the last decade. Between year-end 1985 and mid-year 1996, the incarcerated population grew an average of 7.8 percent a year -- from 744,208 to 1,630,940 inmates. ("Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 1996". U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Washington, D.C.)

Almost three quarters of the men and women under correctional supervision in 1994 were supervised in the community, on probation or parole. (Gilliard, Darrell and Allen Beck, 1995, "The Nation's Correctional Population Tops Five Million," Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.)