fbiwide: Numbers of crimes by state
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fbiwide

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Numbers of crimes by state

Description

A dataset containing the number of property and violent crimes across the United States as reported through the API for the FBI's Crime Data Explorer at https://crime-data-explorer.fr.cloud.gov/pages/home. The variables are as follows (more detail on the FBI website):

Usage

fbiwide

Format

A data frame with 2164 rows and 16 variables:

state: name of the state for which numbers are reported.
state_id: id for each state.
state_abbr: two letter state abbreviation.
year: year of the reporting.
population: state population.
violent_crime: number of violent crimes. This number should be the sum of the next five variables.
homicide: number of reported murders.
rape_legacy: number of reported rapes before 2013. The definition of rape was updated in 2012 and reported afterwards as rape_revised.
rape_revised: number of reported rapes using the definition of 2012.
robbery: number of reported robberies.
aggravated_assaults: number of reported aggravated assaults.
property_crime: number of property crimes. This number should be the sum of the next four variables.
burglary: number of reported burglaries.
larceny: number of reported larceny thefts.
motor_vehicle_theft: number of reported motor vehicle thefts.
arson: number of reported incidents of arson.