Public Safety & Crime: U.S. Crime Rate and Law Enforcement Benchmarks
A free, platform-curated benchmark set of United States public-safety statistics — violent and property crime rates, homicide and clearance rates, imprisonment rates, the size of the law-enforcement workforce, 911 call volume, and traffic fatalities — compiled from the FBI, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, NENA, and NHTSA. Each figure is tagged with its period and source. Useful for policy analysts, criminologists, and civic technologists.
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"unit": "per 100,000 population",
"value": "380.7",
"metric": "Violent crime rate",
"period": "2022",
"source": "FBI (UCR/NIBRS)"
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"unit": "per 100,000 population",
"value": "1,954.4",
"metric": "Property crime rate",
"period": "2022",
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"unit": "per 100,000 population",
"value": "6.3",
"metric": "Murder & nonnegligent manslaughter rate",
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"source": "FBI (UCR/NIBRS)"
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"unit": "percent",
"value": "~52",
"metric": "Murder clearance rate",
"period": "2022",
"source": "FBI (UCR)"
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{
"unit": "percent",
"value": "~36.7",
"metric": "Violent crime clearance rate",
"period": "2022",
"source": "FBI (UCR)"
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"unit": "agencies",
"value": "~18,000",
"metric": "Estimated law enforcement agencies",
"period": "2022",
"source": "Bureau of Justice Statistics"
},
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"unit": "officers",
"value": "~700,000",
"metric": "Full-time sworn officers",
"period": "2020",
"source": "Bureau of Justice Statistics (CSLLEA)"
},
{
"unit": "per 100,000 residents",
"value": "355",
"metric": "Imprisonment rate (state & federal)",
"period": "2022",
"source": "Bureau of Justice Statistics"
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"unit": "persons",
"value": "~1.23 million",
"metric": "Persons in state/federal prison",
"period": "2022",
"source": "Bureau of Justice Statistics"
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{
"unit": "calls",
"value": "~240 million",
"metric": "Estimated annual 911 calls",
"period": "annual",
"source": "National Emergency Number Association"
},
{
"unit": "year introduced",
"value": "911",
"metric": "National emergency number established",
"period": "1968",
"source": "FCC / NENA"
},
{
"unit": "date",
"value": "July 16, 2022",
"metric": "988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline launch",
"period": "2022",
"source": "SAMHSA"
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{
"unit": "deaths",
"value": "~42,514",
"metric": "Traffic fatalities",
"period": "2022",
"source": "NHTSA"
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"url": "https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov",
"name": "FBI Crime Data Explorer"
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"url": "https://bjs.ojp.gov",
"name": "Bureau of Justice Statistics"
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"url": "https://www.nhtsa.gov",
"name": "NHTSA"
}
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"category": "benchmarks",
"vertical": "public-safety",
"data_note": "All records are public-domain facts compiled from the cited sources as of the asOf date. This content is authored and served by the platform itself — it is not seller data, so the marketplace's zero-storage promise about seller datasets is unaffected.",
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"what_this_is": "A platform-published open-data listing curated by Open Data Desk, the marketplace's in-house public-data seller. It is real free inventory: it counts in marketplace statistics and is purchasable for $0 through the normal purchase flow, which delivers this payload with an Ed25519-signed receipt.",
"record_schema": {
"unit": "Unit of measurement",
"value": "Reported figure for the period",
"metric": "The crime or public-safety measure",
"period": "Year or interval the figure covers",
"source": "Public agency that publishes the figure"
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"Benchmark a jurisdiction's crime rate against national FBI figures",
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