fbi.v1: Numbers of crimes by state

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Numbers of crimes by state

Description

A dataset containing the number of property and violent crimes across the United States from 1960 to 2017. The data from 1960 to 2014 was made available by the FBI in the Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics (UCR) at https://www.ucrdatatool.gov/index.cfm. From 2014-2019 the data is made available as part of Excel tables at https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/. This dataset is now superceded by fbi. The variables are as follows (more detail on the FBI website):

Usage

fbi.v1

Format

A data frame with 24088 rows and 7 variables:

State

name of the state for which numbers are reported.

Abb

two letter state abbreviation.

Year

year of the reporting.

Population

state population.

Type

type of crime.

Count

number of reported crimes.

Violent.crime

logical value: is this crime against a person?.


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