Georgia criminal justice data 1986 [July 1987]

GEORGIA CRIMINAL JUSTICE DATA
Published By The Georgia Bureau of Investigation
July 1987

GEORGIA CRIMINAL JUSTICE DATA
W86
Prepared by the Georgia Crime Information Center
July 1987

Joe Frank Harris
GOVERNOR

STATE OF GEORGIA
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR ATLANTA 30334

May 8, 1987

My Fellow Georgians:
In 1986, crime continued to take its toll on the citizens of Georgia. Unfortunately, there were not only people who became victims for the first time, but also others who were victims for the second or third time. Those of us not affected directly were made aware of the problem by frequent media reports concerning crime.
With the help of reliable, accurate statistics, we can identify the nature and extent of the problem. Furthermore, this data can assist decision makers in improving the operation of the criminal justice system and in stemming or reducing the rate of crime. The information in Georqia Criminal Justice Data, 1986 provides the law enforcement community with a valuable resource aid in their continuing efforts to reduce the problem of crime in our state.
With kindest regards, I remain
~ d eFrank Harris

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Section I

Law Enforcement Introduction .Law Enforcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Summary of Crime in Georgia
Crimes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arrests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Incidents of Crime
ProfileofIndexCrimes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Murder and Non-Negligent Manslaughter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aggravated Assault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Larceny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Motor VehicleTheft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Geographical Distribution of Crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Crime Trends and Comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Profile of Non-Index Crimes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NonIndexCrimes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Crimes Against Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Arrests For Crimes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ProfileofIndex Arrests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Profile of Juvenile Arrests - Index Offenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Profile of Non-Index Arrests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Profile of Juvenile Arrests - Non-Index Offenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drug Violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Clearances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Profile of Index Crime Clearances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Profile of Non-Index Crime Clearances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
County Crime Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Law Enforcement Employees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Full Time Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Officers Killed and Assaulted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Traffic Enforcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Traffic Fatalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Georgia Bureau of Investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Section I1 Courts
Introduction .Courts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117 Georgia's Superior Courts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Georgia's State Courts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117 Georgia's Probatecourts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117 Georgia's Juvenile Courts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117 Georgia's Magistrate Courts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117 Georgia's Supreme Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117

Section I11 Corrections
Introduction .Corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139 PrisonProfile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140 Inmateprofile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142
Age. Race. Sex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142 SentenceLength . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143 Crimes Committed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

ProbationerProfde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 Age.Race. Sex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 Crimes Committed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Firstoffender Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Section IV Pardons and Paroles
Introduction .Pardons and Paroles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Profile of Pardons and Paroles Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Section V Statements from Senior Officials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

TABLES
1 REPORTED INCIDENTS OF CRIME. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 REPORTED ARRESTS FOR CRIMES. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 PROFILE OF REPORTED INDEX CRIMES. GEORGIA. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 MURDER AND NON-NEGLIGENT MANSLAUGHTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 FORCIBLERAPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 ROBBERY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 AGGRAVATEDASSAULT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 BURGLARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 LARCENY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 ARSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 CHARACTERISTICS OF INDEX CRIMES. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
13 METROPOLITAN STATISTICAL AREAS AND
NON-METROPOLITAN STATISTICAL AREAS. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
14 METROPOLITAN STATISTICAL AREAS AND
NON-METROPOLITAN STATISTICAL AREAS. INDEX CRIME RATES. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 CHANGES IN NUMBER OF INDEX CRIMES. GEORGIA. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
16 CHANGES IN NUMBER OF INDEX CRIME RATES PER 100.000 PERSONS.
GEORGIA. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 INDEX CRIME TRENDS. GEORGIA. SOUTH. NATION. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 CHANGES IN NUMBER OF INDEX CRIMES. GEORGIA. SOUTH. NATION. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . 19 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CRIME AND POPULATION. GEORGIA. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 PROFILE OF REPORTED NON-INDEX CRIMES. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 PROFILE OF REPORTED NON-INDEX CRIMES. STATEWIDE. 1985-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 A. REPORTED CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN. GEORGIA. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
B. REPORTED ARRESTS FOR CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN. GEORGIA. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . 23 PROFILE OF REPORTED ARRESTS FOR INDEX CRIMES. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
24 COMPARISON OF NUMBER OF REPORTED INDEX CRIMES AND
NUMBER OF REPORTED INDEX CRIME ARRESTS. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 GEORGIA ARRESTS FOR INDEX CRIMES BY AGE GROUP. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 PROFILE OF PERSONS ARRESTED BY SPECIFIC AGE. SEX. RACE. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 ARREST RATES PER 100.000 PERSONS BY SPECIFIC AGE. SEX. RACE. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
28 GEORGIA ARRESTS FOR INDEX CRIMES. VIOLENT.
PROPERTY. BY RACE. 1972-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 PROFILE OF REPORTED NON-INDEX CRIME ARRESTS. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 REPORTED NON-INDEX CRIME ARRESTS BY AGE. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 REPORTED NON-INDEX CRIME ARRESTS BY AGE. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 REPORTED NON-INDEX CRIME ARREST RATES PER 100.000 PERSONS BY AGE. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . 33 REPORTED NON-INDEX CRIME ARRESTS STATEWIDE BY SEX AND RACE. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 REPORTED DRUG ARRESTS. STATEWIDE. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 PROFILE OF REPORTED INDEX CRIME CLEARANCES. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 REPORTED NON-INDEX CRIME CLEARANCES. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 CLEARANCE RATES - INDEX CRIMES. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 CLEARANCE RATES - NON-INDEX CRIMES. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 RANKING OF COUNTIES BY NUMBER OF REPORTED INDEX CRIMES. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 RANKING OF COUNTIES BY INDEX CRIME RATES PER 100.000 PERSONS. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 A. COUNTY CRIME PROFILES. INDEX CRIMES. 1985-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
B. COUNTY CRIME PROFILES. NON-INDEX CRIMES. 1985-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 FULL TIME LAW ENFORCEMENT EMPLOYEES. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
43 RANKING OF COUNTIES BY NUMBER OF FULL TIME LAW ENFORCEMENT
EMPLOYEES PER 100.000 PERSONS. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 REPORTED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS KILLED AND ASSAULTED. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 FATAL ACCIDENTS INVOLVING DUI. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 FATALITIES INVOLVING DUI. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 TRAFFIC FATALITIES BY MONTH. LOCATION AND TYPE. 1985-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 HOLIDAYTRAFFIC TOLL. 1985-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

49 GBIPRODUCTIVITYDATA. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 50 CY85 SUPERIOR COURT CASELOAD (DOCKET ENTRIES) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 51 CY85 STATE COURT CASELOAD (DOCKET ENTRIES) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 52 CY85 PROBATE COURT CIVIL CASELOAD (DOCKET ENTRIES FILED) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 53 CY85 PROBATE COURT CRIMINAL CASELOAD (DOCKET ENTRIES) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 54 CY85 JUVENILE COURT CASELOAD (NUMBER OF CHILDREN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 55 FY86 MAGISTRATE COURT CASELOAD (CASES FILED) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 56 SUPREME COURT CASELOAD. 1985-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 57 CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION POPULATIONS BY TYPE. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 58 INSTITUTION POPULATION BY CURRENT AGE AND SEX. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 59 INMATE POPULATION BY RACE AND SEX. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 60 INMATE POPULATION BY RACE. AGE. AND SEX. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 61 INMATE SENTENCE LENGTH IN YEARS. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
62 INMATE SENTENCE IN YEARS BY CURRENT AGE AND SEX. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 63 INMATE CRIME CATEGORIES BY CURRENT AGE AND SEX. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 64 PROBATION POPULATION BY RACE AND SEX. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 65 PROBATION POPULATION BY AGE. SEX. RACE. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 66 PROBATION POPULATION BY MOST SERIOUS CRIME TYPE. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
67 PROBATION POPULATION BY MOST SERIOUS CRIME TYPE.
CURRENT AGE AND SEX. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
68 PROBATION POPULATION BY CRIME CATEGORY.
CURRENT AGE AND SEX. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 69 ACTIVE PROBATIONERS ON 1ST OFFENDER STATUS. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 70 FIRST OFFENDER BY CURRENT AGE AND SEX. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 71 PROFILE OF PAROLE BOARD ACTIVITY. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

FIGURES
REPORTED INCIDENTS OF CRIME .INDEX. NON.INDEX. TOTAL. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . REPORTED ARRESTS FOR CRIMES .INDEX. NON.INDEX. TOTAL. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
A . MURDER AND NON-NEGLIGENT MANSLAUGHTER. FIVE YEAR TREND. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
B. MURDER AND NON-NEGLIGENT MANSLAUGHTER. WEAPON TYPE. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C. MURDER AND NON-NEGLIGENT MANSLAUGHTER.
PLACEOF OCCURRENCE. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. FORCIBLE RAPE. FIVE YEAR TREND. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B. FORCIBLE RAPE. WEAPON TYPE. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C. FORCIBLE RAPE. PLACE OF OCCURRENCE. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. ROBBERY. FIVE YEAR TREND. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B. ROBBERY. WEAPON TYPE. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C. ROBBERY. PLACE OF OCCURRENCE. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. AGGRAVATED ASSAULT. FIVE YEAR TREND. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B. AGGRAVATED ASSAULT. WEAPON TYPE. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C. AGGRAVATED ASSAULT. PLACE OF OCCURRENCE. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. BURGLARY. FIVE YEAR TREND. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B. BURGLARY. PLACE OF OCCURRENCE. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. LARCENY. FIVE YEAR TREND. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B. LARCENY. CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C. LARCENY. PLACE OF OCCURRENCE. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. MCYIDR VEHICLE THEFT. FIVE YEAR TREND. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B. MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT. PLACE OF OCCURRENCE. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. ARSON. FIVE YEAR TREND. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
B. ARSON. PLACE OF OCCURRENCE. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL INDEX CRIMES. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. INDEX CRIMES. FIVE YEAR TREND. 1982-1986
VIOLENT. PROPERTY AND TOTAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
B. INDEX CRIME RATE. FIVE YEAR TREND. 1982-1986
VIOLENT. PROPERTY AND TOTAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
INDEX CRIMES. FIVE YEAR TREND. 1982-1986
GEORGIA. SOUTH AND NATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. REPORTED INDEX CRIMES. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B. INDEX CRIME RATES (PER 100.000 PERSONS) 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . REPORTED NON-INDEX CRIME INCIDENTS. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
REPORTED INDEX CRIME ARRESTS. FIVE YEAR TREND. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. INDEXCRIMEARRESTSBYAGE. 1982. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B. INDEX CRIME ARRESTS BY AGE. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . REPORTED NON-INDEX CRIME ARRESTS. FIVE YEAR TREND. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
A. NON-INDEX CRIME ARRESTS BY AGE. 1982. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
B. NON-INDEX CRIME ARRESTS BY AGE. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . REPORTED INDEX CRIME CLEARANCES. FIVE YEAR TREND. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
REPORTED NON-INDEX CRIME CLEARANCES. FIVE YEAR TREND. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS KILLED 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS ASSAULTED 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TRAFFIC FATALITIES. 1982-1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
TRAFFIC FATALITIES BYMONTH. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GEORGIA JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATIVE DISTIUCTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SUPERIOR COURTS .FILINGS/DISPOSITIONS. 1982-1985 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STATE COURTS .FILINGS/DISPOSITIONS. 1982-1985 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PROBATE COURTS .FILINGS/DISPOSITIONS. 1982-1985 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JUVENILE COURTS .FILINGS/DISPOSITIONS 1982-1985 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . INMATE POPULATION BY RACE AND SEX. 1986. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . INMATE SENTENCE LENGTHS. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PROBATION POPULATION BY RACE AND SEX. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PROBATION POPULATION BY CRIME TYPE. 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

INTRODUCTION
Georgia Criminal Justice Data, 1986 is published by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. It is in its fourth year of publication succeeding Crime in Georgia which had been compiled in previous years by the State Crime Commission and the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council. This publication represents the culmination of planning, coordination, and discussion among many agencies and organizations of state government. It is a compilation of information from multiple segments of Georgia's criminal justice system.
The reporting and analysis of the occurrence of specific crimes and subsequent arrest for a crime is the point of entrance for an individual into Georgia's criminal justice system. Georgia Criminal Justice Data, 1986 is designed to reflect the totality of the system. It proposes to contribute to the basic understanding and knowledge of just what that system includes and what it does.
This publication provides a basic description of the functions of the criminal justice system, and portrays statistically through graphs, charts and tables essential workload data. As more extensive and accurate reporting systems are developed, this publication will continue toward a more comprehensive effort in the future, capable of tracking individuals through the entire justice system and communicating a clear picture of the system's collective efforts to control crime.

This publication is organized into four substantive divisions: law enforcement, the courts, corrections, and pardons and paroles. The information is organized in a manner consistent with the movement of an offender through the criminal justice system. Analyses of data are made solely from data collected from each major component of the system and are confined to that component. In some instances, the amount of data is rather voluminous; in others it is minimal.
Each section of this publication begins with a brief description of the overall structure of the component concerned, followed by the method by which its relevant data are collected and processed. Following this overview is a presentation of the compiled data and, where appropriate, an analysis of that data. Specific methodology and formulas used in analyses are detailed in the appendix. The concluding section contains statements of officials representing each major component, addressing critical topics relevant to Georgia's criminal justice system.

I LAW ENFORCEMENT

LAW ENFORCEMENT
The law enforcement powers of the State of Georgia are a function of the Executive branch of government. In order to exercise enforcement powers, the state grants the power of arrest to some 730 active law enforcement agencies which can be grouped into seven major categories: (1) state law enforcement agencies, (2) municipal law enforcement agencies, (3) county police agencies, (4) county sheriff departments, (5) campus law enforcement agencies, (6) institutional and authority law enforcement agencies, and (7) other law enforcement agencies. These agencies employ 21,847 sworn officers who have the power of arrest.
The majority of law enforcement functions are delegated to the respective counties and municipalitiesby the state. Most law enforcement work is done at the local level; the bulk of money allocated, the majority of personnel employed, and the greatest portion of workload measures are generated. These facts notwithstanding, the term "diversity" can appropriately be used to describe the law enforcement community within Georgia. The state retains certain specialized responsibilities because a great deal of variation exists between counties and municipalities in the provision of police services, and because law enforcement agencies change over time.
State Law Enforcement Agencies
The primary roles of state level law enforcement agencies are to provide technical assistance to law enforcement agencies at the local level of government and to provide services in highly specialized operational areas. Examples of these services are: investigative assistance, laboratory analysis of physical evidence through the State Crime Laboratory, training, management consulting, and the collection and analyses of crime data and criminal history information through the Georgia Crime Information Center.
In addition, the state engages in operational law enforcement functions in specialized areas. Workload measures generated by six state agencies, employing 1,864 officers with arrest powers, are included with the data in this report. Those state agencies are:
1. The Georgia State Patrol whose primary operational focus is on traffic enforcement duties and highway safety. Its duties are performed by 829 sworn officers statewide. There are 47 Patrol Posts located throughout Georgia.
2. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation whose primary operational focus is on general investigations and narcotics enforcement activities. Its duties are performed by 253 sworn special agents and 41 narcotics agents. There are 13 field offices and four regional drug enforcement offices located throughout Georgia and various special units working out of headquarters.
3. The Department of Natural Resources, Game and Fish Division's Law Enforcement Unit whose operational focus is on the enforcement of all laws relating to game

and fish, boating, and water safety regulation. Its duties are performed by 390 sworn conservation rangers assigned to the 159 counties in the state.
4. The Department of Revenue, Alcohol, Tobacco Tax Unit whose operatianal focus is on the enforcement of laws pertaining to the payment of any tax duties due the Department. The Unit shares concurrent jurisdiction with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for the statewide enforcement of all laws related to the manufacture, sale, transportation, and possession of beverage alcohol and tobacco. Duties are performed by 32 sworn law enforcement agents.
5. The Investigation Division, State Examining Boards, Securities Investigation Unit, and the Secretary of State whose operational focus is on the investigation of both misdemeanor and felony violations of laws governing the licensing of certain professions (i.e., doctors, pharmacists, private detectives, etc.), verification and enforcement of provisions of the State Elections Code and the enforcement of securities regulation laws. Duties are performed by 34 sworn investigators who operate from offices in Atlanta.
6. The Permits and Enforcement Division, Department of Transportation whose operational focus is on the enforcement of regulations governing the size and weight of vehicles operating on public roads, the enforcement of licensing and fuel tax registration requirements, and the enforcement of all state laws on properties owned or controlled by the Department of Transportation. Duties are performed by 285 sworn officers located in state highway districts.
In addition to the law enforcement agencies identified above, the state has several other specialized agencies which are vested with arrest powers. These agencies are included in one of the other categories enumerated below (e.g., campus police, authority police, Georgia Drugs and Narcotics Agency, State Fire Marshal, Farmer's Market Police, etc.).
Local Law Enforcement Agencies
The primary role of local-level law enforcement is to provide police services to the citizens of an agency's geographically defined jurisdiction. These services are provided at the local level by one or more of the three types of local agencies: municipal police agencies, county police agencies, and county sheriffs' departments. Within the State of Georgia there are 540 local law enforcement agencies which employ 13,290 sworn officers authorized to exercise the power of arrest.
1 . Municipal Police Departments. Municipal police agencies derive law enforcement powers through delegation from the state under the constitutional principle of "home rule", or local autonomy. These agencies are generally responsible for the enforcement of all state

criminal laws, traffic laws, and municipal ordinances. Municipal police agencies employ more law enforcement officers than any other type of agency. Presently, 367 municipalitiesfund police departments which employ a total of 6,821 sworn officers. These agencies range in size from 1 to 1,299 officers with the majority having 15 or fewer sworn officers.
2. County Sheriffs' Departments. The office of Sheriff in Georgia is considered to be both a constitutional and county office. The Sheriff of each county derives his law enforcement powers from general laws enacted by the General Assembly in accordance with the 1983 Constitution of the State of Georgia. Sworn deputies derive arrest powers from the sheriff. Each of Georgia's 159 counties has a sheriff whose principal duties involve serving as: (1) the chief law enforcement officer of the county, (2) an officer of the county courts, and (3) the official jailer of the county. The 159 sheriffs' departments in Georgia employ a total of 4,693 sworn officers authorized to en-
force all criminal laws of the state and to enforce county
ordinances when so authorized by the county commission or local acts of the General Assembly. In the 14 counties that have created county police departments, the sheriffs office tends to focus on the duties of jail operations and service to the courts.
3. County Police Departments. County police agencies derive their law enforcement powers through delegation from the state under the constitutional principle of "home rule". They are generally empowered to enforce all state criminal laws, traffic laws, and county ordinances. There are currently 14 county police departments in the state which employ a total of 1,776 sworn officers.
Campus Law Enforcement Agencies
Educational institutions within the State of Georgia have the authority to establish law enforcement agencies with powers similar to those of other state and local law enforcement agencies. These campus police agencies are divided into two basic types of agencies:
1. State operated colleges and universities, which operate under the authority of the Board of Regents, are empowered to employ campus police officers and other security personnel who have arrest powers for all state criminal and traffic violations committed upon any property within the state which is under the jurisdiction of the Board of Regents and upon any public or private property within 500 yards of any property under the jurisdiction of the Board.
2. Private colleges and universities operated under the authority of the State Board of Education are empowered to employ campus police officers who have the power of arrest for all state criminal and traffic violations committed upon the grounds or buildings of the particular educational facility employing the officer and upon any public or private property within 500 yards of the educational facility.
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There are currently 35 campus police agencies within the state which employ a total of 533 sworn police officers.
State Authorities' and Institutions' Law Enforcement Agencies
The various state statutes creating specific authorities (i.e., Stone Mountain Authority, Lake Lanier Islands Authority, Georgia Ports Authority, MARTA, etc.) and those statutes which govern certain types of institutions (i.e., Central State Hospital, Youth Development Centers, etc.) empower some of these agencies to employ police officers. The police
employees of these agencies are empowered to enforce all state
criminal and traffic laws upon the property under the institution or authority's jurisdiction. There are currently 7 police agencies in Georgia under this category. These agencies employ a total of 154 sworn police officers.
There are an additional 5,312 sworn employees of the Department of Corrections who have the power of arrest and work in institutional settings. These Department of Corrections employees have not been included in the total number of police officers because they are included within the Corrections section of this publication.
Other Law Enforcement Agencies
Various independent statutes within the Official Code of Georgia grant degrees of arrest power to certain employees of state, local, and private agencies, which do not lend themselves to easy categorization. These employees range from county marshals to court officers, to investigators employed by district attorneys and solicitors, to railroad police officers, and others. There are currently 59 such agencies within the state which employ a total of 510 sworn officers.
Law Enforcement, Crime Data Reporting, Collection and Interpretation
Georgia's crime reporting system is patterned after that of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It is designed to collect two types of crime data from Georgia's law enforcement agencies accordingto standardized definitionsand procedures. The first type of data collected represent Part I offenses which include counts for the crimes of murder and non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson. The first four offenses are violent crimes or crimes against persons; the remaining four are property crimes. Because of their seriousness, frequency of occurrence, and likelihood of being reported, these crimes are thought of as forming an index of the crime problem; consequently, these offenses are often referred to as Index crimes.
Counts for less serious crimes, (Part 11 Offenses) often referred to as Non-Index crimes, are also collected and analyzed. The law enforcement data in this publication are provided from two sources, the Georgia Crime Information Center and the Georgia Department of Public Safety. The primary responsibility for collecting and reporting dzta relating to criminal violations, traffic accidents, and traffic

violations falls upon the agency in whose jurisdiction the violations occur. A myriad of 730 law enforcement agencies collect and report data to the two state agencies responsible for collating and analyzing this information. This information is compiled and analyzed in publications such as Georgia Criminal Justice Data, as well as in specific reports used for policy decisions and research activities.
The data provided in this publication comprising Georgia crime statistics are derived from actual reports submitted to the Georgia Crime Information Center by law enforcement agencies statewide. The FBI provides statistical data on criminal activity on a nationwide basis. Those tables comparing criminal activity in Georgia with that of the South and the Nation use FBI statistical data for comparisons.
State law requires all criminal justice agencies to submit to the Georgia Crime Information Center information concerning crimes reported by the public and crimes otherwise processed by the agency. Agencies must also submit fingerprints and other identifying data on persons arrested within each agency's jurisdiction. These reports are collected on forms or in a format prescribed by the Georgia Crime Information Center. The validity of this information is dependent upon the original sources of the information - the criminaljustice agencies located throughout the state.
State law also requires the submission of certain types of data on traffic accidents and traffic law violations to the Department of Public Safety. All data concerning traffic accidents and violations contained in this report were obtained from the Department of Public Safety or the federal agencies to which it reports.
Crime Data Interpretation
Several precautions in interpreting crime data should be observed. First, it is well established that many more crimes occur than are ever reported. Thus, depending on the type of crime and type of victim, statistics based on the number of crimes reported to law enforcement agencies may underestimate the number of crimes that actually take place. Because the size and variation of this "hidden figure of crime" is not known, caution should be exercised in assuming that changes in crime trends reflect changes in criminal behavior.
Second, the Georgia Crime Information Center does not include estimates for incidents or arrests that occur but are not reported. Such estimates are included in the FBI's Crime in the United States. The number of law enforcement agencies failing to report criminal activity to the GCIC has decreased in recent years (7.4% failed to report in 1986JAgain, changes in the number of reported incidents and arrests may not necessarily reflect the actual level of change in law enforcement activity. Also, there is evidence that changes in the actual number of crimes committed normally coincide with changes in population demographics. Accordingly, historical comparisons of the number of crimes reported may be misleading if the accompanying demographic changes are not considered.

The same is true for inter-jurisdictional comparisons; it is expected that communities with different populations will have different crime problems. The use of crime rates in making comparisons minimizes these problems. Readers are cautioned that crime rates cited are reliable indications of crime only to the extent that population estimates are accurate, that crimes are reported by victims, and the Uniform Crime Reports are submitted to the Georgia Crime Information Center by law enforcement agencies.
Due to its uniformity and comprehensiveness, the state's crime statistics data base is very useful for describing Georgia's crime problem over time and in making tentative comparisons of Georgia's data with comparable demographics.

SUMMARY OF CRIME IN GEORGIA
Crimes
In 1986, 329,144 Index and 240,003 Non-Index offenses were reported by Georgia law enforcement agencies. Table 1 and Figure 1 indicate the trends in both Index, Non-Index and combined Index and Non-Index offenses from 1982-1986. Index offenses show an increase in 1984, 1985 and 1986. Non-Index offenses demonstrated a pattern of increase until 1986 with 1985 recording the highest figure for the entire five year period. (Note: The 1986 Non-Index offense total does not include DUI offenses which were not available as of print date.)

Arrests
In 1986,54,493arrests for Index offenses and 171,357 arrests for Non-index offenses were reported. Table 2 and Figure 2 demonstrate the trends in arrests for the two main crime categories as well as the total for all crimes. The trends in each category are consistent as both show decreases for 1983 and 1984. The consistency of decrease changes in 1985 with an increase in arrests for Index crimes. (Note: The 1986 NonIndex arrest total does not include DUI arrests which were not available as of print date.)
This section will further detail the trends in incidents and arrests for Index and Non-Index offenses and offer possible explanations.

Table 1
REPORTED INCIDENTS OF CRIME l 9 8 2 l 9 8 6

Index Non-Index

289,554 221,954

251,164 241,698

259,253 258,645

Totalcrimes 511,508 492,862 517,898
Source: Georgia Crime Information Center *Figures for 1986 do not include DUI which is unavailable as of print date.

Figure 1

296,304 282,549
578,853

329,144 240,003
569,147

600 j

REPORTED INCIDENTS OF CRIME
- INDEX. NON-INDEX. TOTAL, 1982 1986
1

1982

1983

n INDEX

1984 YEAR c NON-INDEX

1985 o TOW

1986

Table 2
REPORTED ARRESTS FOR CRIMES 1982-1986

Index Non-Index

54,944 256,589

48,520 244,109

46,602 238,238

52,843 226,077

TotalArrests 311,533 292,629 284,840 278,920
Source: Georgia Crime Information Center *I986 Non-Index arrest total does not include DUI which is unavailable as of print date.

54,493 171,357
225,850

Figure 2
REPORTED ARRESTS FOR CRIMES
- INDEX, NON-INDEX. TOTAL, 1982 1986

G INDEX

+ NON-INDEX

0 TOTAL

INCIDENTS OF CRIME:
CHARACTERISTICS, TRENDS, COMPARISONS
Profile of Index Crime in Georgia
In 1986, Georgians reported 329,144 Index crimes to law enforcement agencies (see Table 3). Included in this total were 653 murders, 2,827 forcible rapes, 13,315 robberies, 19,098 aggravated assaults, 86,619 burglaries, 177,440 larcenies, 27,868 motor vehicle thefts, and 1,324 arsons. Larcenies accounted for the highest percentage (53.9%) of the total number of Index crimes, and burglaries made up the second highest category (26.3%). Overall, 10.9 percent of the Index crimes were violent crimes commited against persons; 89.1 percent were property offenses. Based on the 1986population estimate for Georgia of 6,055,207, for each 100,000persons in the state, 592.8 violent crimes and 4,843.0 property crimes were reported, producing an Index crime rate of 5,435.7 (see Appendix for the rate computation formula).
While counts for the eight Index crimes illustrate the magnitude of the problem, the nature of serious criminal behavior can be further identified by examining pertinent details of individual crimes (see Tables 4-11).

SUMMARY OF CRIME CHARACI'ERISTICS, 1986
The crimes of murder, forcible rape, and aggravated assault typically involve people who know one another or have had some contact in the past (see Table 12). On the other hand, assuming that most of the unreported relationships between victims and offenders are stranger-to-stranger, robberies, burglaries, larcenies, and motor vehicle thefts are usually committed by strangers.
Weapon type and crime also show a certain correlation. In crimes of murder and robbery, firearms were the most frequently used weapon (53.8 % and 41.6 % respectively). Similarly, the weapon most used in the crime of forcible rape was handslfists, etc. (48.1%) while in the crime of aggravated assault, other dangerous weapons was the most frequent type
used (33.7%) .
In 1986, $299,392,205 in property was reported stolen during the commission of Index crimes. Motor vehicle thefts accounted for the greatest loss ($148,999,171) followed by larcenies ($11,609,805), burglaries ($71,326,547), and robberies ($7,287,657). The average value of property stolen during each motor vehicle theft was $5,347, compared to $823 during each burglary, $547 during each robbery, and $404 during each larceny.
With the exception of robbery, most Index crimes occurred in either residences or parks, public buildings and other places. Streetslalleys and business establishments were generally less likely Index crime locations.

Table 3
PROFILE OF REPORTED INDEX CRIMES, GEORGIA 1986

'me
Murder
Rape Robbery Aggravated Assault

Reported
653 2,827 13,315 19,098

% of Total
0.2% 0.9% 4.0% 5.8%

Total Violent Crime

35,893

10.9%

Burglary Larceny Motor Vehicle Theft Arson

86,619 177,440 27,868
1,324

26.3% 53.9% 8.5% 0.4%

Total Property Crime

293,251

89.1%

Total Index Crime

329,144

100.0%

Source: Georgia Crime Information Center

Rate per 100,000 10.8 46.7
219.9 315.4
592.8
1,430.5 2,930.4
460.2 21.9
4,843.0
5,435.7

Table 4
MURDER AND NON-NEGLIGENT MANSLAUGHTER

DEFINITION
Murder and non-negligent manslaughter are defined as the willful killing of one human being by another. Deaths caused by negligence, suicide, accident, or justifiable homicide are not included in the count for this offense classification. Attempts to murder or assaults to murder are scored as aggravated assaults and not as murder.
TREND

Number % Change from Rate per % Change from

Year reported

Previous Year

1~~

Previous Year

Percentage change from 1982 to 1986 - in number of reported crimes: -12.2%

- in rate per 100,000: -17.6%

CHARACTERISTICS, 1986

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-

-

-

Victim-Offender Relationship

Unknown Non-Stranger to Non-Stranger Stranger-to-Stranger

Q p e Weapon Used Place of Occurrence

Firearm Unknown Other Dangerous Weapon Cutting Tool Hands, Fists, etc.
Residence Parks, Public Buildings, and Other Places Business Establishment Street, Alley

Months of Highest Occurrence Value of Property Stolen During Offense

December September February
$44,741.OO Total $69.00 Per Incident

ArrestICrimes Ratio Profile of Persons Arrested

Arrests

2.8 % 18.8% 21.5% 20.1 % 12.1% 24.7%

Age 16 and Under 17-21 22-26 27-31 32-36
37 andover

Sex: Male Female

82.9% 17.1%

Race: White

39.3%

Non-White 60.7%

Note: Due to rounding, percentages do not always total 100% Source: Georgia Crime Information Center; Office of Planning and Budget Ropulation Estimate
12

Figure 3A
MURDER AND NOX-NEG MANSLAUGHTER

YEAR n 1982-1986
Figure 3B
MURDER & NON-NEGLIGENT

MANSLAUGHTER

firearm (53.8%)

Figure 3C
MURDER & NON-NEGLIGENT MANSLAUGHTER
PLACE OF OCCURRENCE, 1986
pub area

Table 5
FORCIBLE RAPE

DEFINITION
Forcible rape is the carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will. This category includes assaults or attempts to commit forcible rape by force or threat of force, but not statutory rape (without force) or other sex offenses.
TREND

Number % Change from Rate per % Change from

Year Reported Previous Year

100,000

Previous Year

Percentage change from 1982 to 1986 - in number of reported crimes: 15.2%
- in rate per 100,000: 7.8%
CHARACTERISTICS, 1986

Victim-Offender Relationship Type Weapon Used

Place of Occurrence

Months of Highest Occurrence

Value of Property Stolen During Offense

ArrestICrimes Ratio

Profile of Persons Arrested

5.3 % 24.8% 21.3% 19.6% 12.2% 16.7%

Age 16 and under 17-21 22-26 27-31 32-36 37andover

Non-Stranger-to-Non-Stranger Stranger-to-Stranger Unknown
Hands, Fists, etc. Other Dangerous Weapon Unknown Cutting Tool Firearm
Parks, Public Buildings, and Other Places Residence Street, Alley Business Establishment
September June July
$124,284.00 Total $44.00 Per Incident

Arrests
Sex: Male Female

97.8% 2.2%

Race: White

26.8%

Non-White 73.2 %

Note: Due to rounding, percentages do not always total 100% Source: Georgia Crime Information Center; Office of Planning and Budget Population Estimate

2.9 '
2.8 -
2.7 2.6 2.5 -

Figure 4A
FORCIBLE RAPE
FIYE YEAR TREND

__- _

- -4 3 2.827

2.3 2.2 -

2.1 1982

T-
1983

7 1984

YEAR
n 1982 - 1986
Figure 4B
FORCIBLE RAPE

WEAPON TYPE. 1986

uaknonn (14.7%) /-'

/--------

1
1985

1986

cutting tool (10.6%)

other (17.6%)

pub area

Figure 4C
FORCIBLE RAPE
PLACE OF OCCURRENCE. 1986

Table 6
ROBBERY

DEFINITION
Robbery is taking or attempting to take anythmg of value from the care, custody, or control of a person or persons by force or threat of force or violence and/or by putting the victim in fear.

TREND

Number % Change from Rate per % Change from

Year Reported Previous Year

100,000

Previous Year

Percentage change from 1982 to 1986 - in number of reported crimes: 36.4% - in rate per 100,000: 27.5%
CHARACTERISTICS, 1986

Victim-Offender Relationship

49.3 % 38.2% 12.6 %

Stranger-to-Stranger Unknown Non-Stranger-to-Non-Stranger

Type Weapon Used Place of Occurrence

Firearm Hands, Fist, etc. Other Dangerous Weapon Cutting Tool Unknown
Street, Alley Business Establishment Residence Parks, Public Buildings, and Other Places

Months of Highest Occurrence Value of Property Stolen During Offense

10.1% 9.4% 9.0%

January December October
$7,287,657.00 Total $547.00 Per Incident

Arrest/Crimes Ratio Profile of Persons Arrested

2,964

Arrests

5.4 % 28.2% 27.8% 19.4% 10.6%
8.6%

Age 16 and under 17-21 22-26 27-31 32-36 37 and over

Sex: Male Female

92.4% 7.6%

Race: White

20.3%

Non-White 79.7 %

Note: Due to rounding, percentages do not always total 100% Source: Georgia Crime Information Center; Office of Planning and Budget Population Estimate
18

14
13 -
12 -
11 -
1@z163 f
9 -
8 1982

Figure 5A
ROBBERY
FIVE YEAR TREND

I
1983

I
1984

YEAR
5 1982 - 1986 Figure 5B

ROBBERY

WE O N TYPE. 1986
u~o~*Po..x)

1
1985

13,315
1
1986

cutting tool (10.0%)
19

Figure 5C
ROBBERY
PLACE OF OCCURRENCE. 1986
street (40.2%)

Table 7
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT

DEFINITION
Aggravated assault is the unlawful attack by one person upon another for the purpose of inflicting severe bodily injury. This type of assault is usually accompanied by the use of a weapon or other means likely to produce death or serious bodily harm. Attempts are included since it is not necessary that an injury result when a gun, knife, or other weapon is used which could and probably would result in serious personal injury if the crime is successfully completed.
TREND

Number % Change from Rate per % Change from

Year Reported Previous Year

100,000

Previous Year

Percentage change from 1982 to 1986
- in number of reported crimes: 15.8% - in rate per 100,000: 8.3%

CHARACTERISTICS, 1986

Victim-Offender Relationship 'Qpe Weapon Used
Place of Occurrence
Months of Highest Occurrence ArrestICrimes Ratio Profile of Persons Arrested

57.9 % 26.7 % 15.3%
33.7 % 32.2% 28.5 % 4.7%
1 .O%
45.0 %
33.1% 11.4% 10.5 %
10.7% 10.2% 9.3%
.52
10,033

Non-Stranger-to-Non-Stranger Unknown Stranger-to-Stranger
Other Dangerous Weapon Firearm Cutting Tool Hands, Fists, etc. Unknown
Parks, Public Buildings, and Other Places Residence Street, Alley Business Establishment
June July August
Arrests

Age 3.7 % 16 and under

Sex: Male

15.3% 17-21

Female

21.6% 22-26

19.6% 27-31

12.9% 32-36

Race: White

26.8 % 37 and over

Non-White

--

--

-

Note: Due to rounding, percentages do not always total 100%

Source: Gwrgia Crime Information Center; Office of Planning and Budget Population Estimate
2 1

82.1% 17.9%
34.7% 65.3 %

Figure 6A
YEAR
D 1982-1986
Figure 6B
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
WEAPON TYPE. 1986 unknown (1.0%)

Figure 6C
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
PLACE OF OCCURRENCE. 1986

Table 8
BURGLARY

DEFINITION
Burglary is defined as the unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or theft. The use of force to gain entry is not required to classify the crime as a burglary.

TREND

Number % Change from Rate per % Change from

Year Reported Previous Year

100,000

Previous Year

Percentage change from 1982 to 1986 - in number of reported crimes: 5.3% - in rate per 100,000: -1.6%
CHARACTERISTICS, 1986

Victim-Offender Relationship

81.3% 13.0% 5.7 %

Unknown Stranger-to-Stranger Non-Stranger-to-Non-Stranger

Place of Occurrence
Months of Highest Occurrence Value of Property Stolen During Offense

66.5% 20.6 % 12.7 %
0.2%
9.1 % 9.0 % 8.9%

Residence Business Establishment Parks, Public Buildings, and Other Places Street, Alley
August September July
$71,326,547.00 Total $823.00 Per Incident

ArrestICrimes Ratio

.10

Profile of Persons Arrested

8,961

Arrests

12.0% 37.7% 22.2% 13.1% 7.9% 7.1%

Age 16andunder 17-21 22-26 27-31 32-36 37andover

Sex: Male Female

93.5% 6.5%

Race: White

43.4%

Non-White 56.6%

Note: Due to rounding, percentages do not always total 100% Source: Georgia Crime Information Center; Office of Planning and Budget Population Estimate

87
86 85 84 -
8*~256 82
81 -
1 79
78 -
77 -
76 -
75 -
74 -
73 -
72 71 -
70 -
69

Figure 7A
BURGLARY
FIVE YEAR TREND
19

r---

IF-

YEAR
D 1982 - 1986
Figure 7B
3 URGLARY

Table 9
LARCENY

DEFINITION
Larceny is the unlawful taking, carrying, leading, or riding away of property from the possession or constructive possession of another. It includes crimes such as shoplifting, pocketpicking, purse-snatching, thefts from motor vehicles, thefts of motor vehicle parts and accessories, bicycle thefts, etc., in which no use of force, violence, or fraud occurs.

TREND

Number % Change from Year Reported Previous Year

1982 1983 1984 1985 1986

158,935 137,642 142,732 164,143 177,440

- 2.1% - 13.4%
3.7% 15.0% 8.1%

Percentage change from 1982 to 1986 - in number of reported crimes: 11.6% - in rate per 100,000: 4.4%

Rate per 100,000
2,807.9 2,390.1 2,436.6 2,755.7 2,930.4

% Change from Previous Year
- 3.8% - 14.9%
1.9% 13.1% 6.3%

CHARACTERISTICS, 1986

Victim-Offender Relationship Criminal Activity

69.6% 2 1.9%
8.5 %

Place of Occurrence
Months of Highest Occurrence Value of Property Stolen During Offense

35.0% 32.4%
29.2% 3.3%
10.0% 9.2% 9.1%

ArrestICrimes Ratio Profile of Persons Arrested

.16 28,038

Unknown Stranger-to-Stranger Non-Stranger-to-Non-Stranger
From motor vehicle1 Auto accessories Other thefts Shoplifting From building Bicycles Purse snatching From coin machines Pocket-picking
Business Establishment Parks, Public Buildings, and Other Places Residence Street, Alley
April July August
$71,609,805.00 Total $404.00 Per Incident
Arrests

1 1.6% 28.5% 19.5% 15.3% 9.8% 15.3%

Age 16 and under 17-21 22-26 27-31 32-36 37andover

Sex: Male Female

69.2% 30.8%

Race: White

41.4%

Non-White 58.6%

Note: Due to rounding, percentages do not always total 100% Source: Georgia Crime Information Center; Office of Planning and Budget Population Estimate

Figure 8A
LARCENY

other

YEAR
1982-1986
Figure 8B
LARCENY

Figure 8C
LARCENY
PLACE OF OCCURRENCE, 1986 street (3.3%)
residence (29.2%)

Table 10
MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT

DEFINITION
Motor vehicle theft is defined as the theft or attempted theft of a motor vehicle. This definition excludes taking for temporary use by those persons having lawful access to the vehicle.

TREND

Number % Change from Rate per % Change from

Year Reported Previous Year

100,000

Previous Year

Percentage change from 1982 to 1986
- in number of reported crimes: 56.9% - in rate per 100,000: 46.6%

CHARACTERISTICS, 1986

Victim-Offender Relationship

76.1 % 13.6% 10.3%

Unknown Stranger-to-Stranger Non-Stranger-to-Non-Stranger

Place of Occurrence

44.2%

Parks, Public Buildings, and Other Places Residence Business Establishment Street, Alley

Months of Highest Occurrence

August October July

Value of Property Stolen During Offense

$148,999,171.00 Total $5,347.00 Per Incident

ArrestICrimes Ratio

.09

Profile of Persons Arrested

2,517

Arrests

14.7 % 37.8% 18.6% 12.3% 7.6% 9.0%

Age 16 and under 17-21 22-26 27-31 32-36 37andover

Sex: Male Female

93.3% 6.7%

Race: White

41.0%

Non-White 59.0%

Note: Due to rounding, percentages do not always total 100% Source: Georgia Crime Information Center; Office of Planning and Budget Population Estimate

Figure 9A
MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
D 198Y2E-AR1986
Figure 9B
MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
PLACE OF OCCURRENCE. 1986
pub area (44.2%)

Table 11
ARSON

DEFINITION
Arson is defined as any willful or malicious burning or attempt to burn, with or without intent to defraud, a dwelling house, public building, motor vehicle or aircraft, personal property of another, etc. Only fires determined through investigation to have been willfully or maliciously set are classified as arsons. Fires of suspicious or unknown origins are excluded.

TREND

Number % Change from Rate per % Change from

Year Reported

Previous Year

100,000

Previous Year

Percentage change from 1982 to 1986
- in number of reported crimes: 14.7%
- in rate per 100,000: 7.4%

CHARACTERISTICS, 1986

Victim-Offender Relationship Place of Occurrence
Months of Highest Occurrence ArrestICrimes Ratio Profile of Persons Arrested

Unknown Non-Stranger-to-Non-Stranger Stranger-to-Stranger
Residence Parks, Public Buildings, and Other Places Business Establishment Street, Alley
June July AugustIJanuary
Arrests

Sex: Male Female

79.9% 20.1 %

Race: White

63.2%

Non-White 36.8 %

Note: Due to rounding, percentages do not always total 100% Source: Gwrgia Crime Information Center; Office of Planning and Budget Population Estimate

Figure 1OA

ARSON

FIVE YEAR TREND

1.34 7

--

I

- YEAR
0 1982 1986
Figure 10B
ARSON
PLACE OF OCCURRENCE, 1986

residence (54.5%)
32

Figure 11

% O F TOTAL INDEX CRIMES, 1986

1 Oe6

53.9%

MUR

RAP

ROB

AGA

BUR

LAR

MVT

ARS

CRIME TYPE % OF TOTAL

Table 12
CHARACI'ERISTICS OF INDEX CRIMES, 1986

Forcible

Aggravated

Murder Rape Robbery Assault Burglary

Larceny

Motor Vehicle Theft

Arson

Victim-Perpetrator Relationship (%)
Reported Strangerto-Stranger
Reported nonstranger-tonon-stranger
Relationship not known

8.6% 39.2% 52.2%

31.7% 41.3% 27.0%

49.3% 12.6% 38.2%

15.3% 57.9% 26.7%

13.0% 5.7% 81.3%

21.9% 8.5%
69.6%

13.6%

12.5%

10.3 % 76.1%

15.4% 72.1 %

Weapon Used (%)
Firearm Cutting Tool
Hands, fists, etc.
Other dangerous weapons
Unknown

53.8% 13.5%

9.0% 10.6%

41.6% 10.0%

3.5% 48.1% 31.7%

13.6% 15.6%

17.6% 14.7%

16.0% 0.7%

32.2% 28.5%
4.7%
33.7% 1 .O%

Property Stolen
Total value
Value per incident

$44,741 $124,284 $7,287,657

$ 69$ 44$

547

$71,326,547 $71,609,805 $148,999,171

$

823 $

404 $

5,347

Occurrence (%)
Street, alley
Service station
Chain store
Bank
Other commercial business
Residence
Public areas, other buildings, & unknown

7.5% 0.5% 0.9% 0.0%

11.7% 0.5% 0.7% 0.0%

6.6% 43.8%

5.1% 40.4%

40.7% 41.6%

40.2% 2.4% 10.7% 1.6%
23.7% 12.1%
9.2%

11.4% 0.4% 1.3% 0.1 %
8.7% 33.1%
45.0%

0.2% 0.6% 1.4% 0.0%
18.5% 66.5%
12.7%

3.3% 2.2% 6.8% 0.1%
25.9% 29.2%
32.4%

5.6% 0.8% 1.1% 0.1%

6.5% 0.2% 1.4% 0.2%

19.1 % 29.1 %

14.4% 54.5%

44.2%

22.7%

Note: Due to rounding or missing data, percentages do not always total 100%. Source: Georgia Crime Information Center

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF CRIME
Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA's) are geographical subdivisions composed of a core city with a population of at least 50,000 or an urbanized area of at least 50,000 population and a total metropolitan area population of at least 100,000combined with economically/socially related counties: MSA's experienced the highest crime rates in the state in all categories of Part I crimes (See Table 14).
Georgia's eight MSA's currently account for 63.3 percent of the state's population yet they include only 38 of the 159 counties. In comparison of overall crime rates, MSA's more than

double (6,701) the non-MSA rate for rural areas (3,252) (See Table 13).
These tables indicate the importance of population density as one factor in the number of crimes committed in an area. Table 40 provides specific crime rates for the individual counties that are the components of the MSAInon-MSA breakdown. The ranking of counties by crime rate in Table 40 also indicates that many of the counties that are part of an MSA rank high in the listing.

v1ETROPOLITAN

STATISTICAL

MA

COUNTY

Albany, GA MSA

Dougherty Lee

Albany, GA MSA Total

Athens, GA M SA

Clarke Jackson Madison Oconee

Athens, GA MSA Total

Atlanta, GA MSA

Barrow Butts' Cherokee Clayton Cobb Coweta DeKalb Douglas Fayette Forsyth Fulton Gw~nnett Henry Newton Pauld~ng Rockdale Spaldlng Walton

Atlanta, GA MSA Total

Augusta, GA MSA

Columbla Rlchrnond McDuffie

i2ugusta. GA MSA Total

'hattanwga, TN-GA MSA

Dade Catwsa Walker

'hattanooga, TN-GA MSA Total

~lumbus, GAAL MSA

Chatta hoochee Muscocee

'alumbus, GA-AL MSA Total

acon, GA M SA

B~bb Houston Jones Peach

:.%con, GA MSA Total

\lwtnnah, GA hlSA

Chatham Eftingham

~dnnahG, A \1SA Total

POPULATION
109,849 15,836
141,614
23,779 15,264 66,129 175,193 344,277 43,142 518,475 72,222 49,282 34,498 621,144 244,454 46,735 38,872 31,347 50,557 52,126 35 898
2,463,394
53,317 197,382 20,325
271,024
13,297 40,893 58,479
112,669
22,830 178.537
213,719 21,193
234.912

trol Outside \fSA's
,.it State ipencles Reponlng
3; State

2,220,799 6,055,207

turce. Georg~aCrime Informat~onCenter

8 OF TOTAL

Table 13
MSAINON MSA's, 1986

AGGRAVATED

MURDER RAPE ROBBERY

ASSAULT

MOTOR VEHICLE BURGLARY LARCENY THEFT

PART I CImVE CRIME ARSON TOTAL RATE

2 3%
40 7% 4 5% 19%

8

64

3

8

1

3

3

8

5

50

23 107

3

9

33 253

3

12

2

3

0

8

209 939

5

65

3

9

8

14

3

2

I

I1

5

24

7

8

317 1,533

2

7

23

%

0

0

25 103

0

0

0

0

2

18

2

18

112
12 9 18 228 562 20 1,529 38 8 5 6,575 189 15 25 8 20 59 13
9, 333
14 465
1
480
3 8 14
25

0

0

0

28

%

349

432
54 8 74 372 393 50 867 108 39 27 7,691 415 74 143 47 143 225 30
10,760
70 408
3
48 I
13 23 7 1
107
5 327

1,744
278 1 10 420 2,312 4,281 467 10,653 580 369 444 19,881 3,516 507 574 264 490 750 293
46,189
457 3,565
66
4,088
78 214 542
834

4,129
586 84 650 5,490 10,446 722 22,992 1,301 750 680 42.333 7,999 854 996 399 1,191 1,639 411
99,525
726 5,841
104
6,671
97 383 640
1,120

376
71 17 96 823 2,012 79 4,395 230 73 121 10,480 1,201 124 72 63 131 162 45
20,195
70 677
6
753
25 9 1 118
234

35 6,900 4,852

5 1,017

0

232

8 1,277

27 9,307

95 17,919

6 1,356

102 40,824

18 2,290

2 1,246

9 1.294

74 88,182

120 13.510

6 1,592

21 1,853

7

793

3 1,990

16 2,880

2

XI1

521 188,373 7,647

6 1,352

50 11,125

0

180

56 12,657 4,670

5

221

4

723

15 1,420

24 2,364 2,098

18 2,173

18 5.990

3

1

45

533

74 9.570

3 9%

41 138

737

0

6

9

41 144

746

36.7% 100 0 %

185 688
0 117 653 2,827

1,629
166 13,315

669

4,580

10,436

703

92 17,396

18

137

182

28

4

384

687

4.717

10.618

731

96 17.780 7.569

5,268
177 19,098

21,247
649 86,619

38,711
287 177,440

4,019

470 72,217 3,252

89 27.868

83 1,568 1,324 329,144

5,436

Table 14
MSAINON-MSA INDEX CRIME RATES, 1986

AGGRAVATED

MOTOR

MURDER RAPE ROBBERY ASSAULT BURGLARY LARCENY VEH THEFT ARSOh

TOTAL MSA 12.2

55.8

304.8

360.7

1,704.9

3,618.0

622.0

22.3

NON-MSA

8.3

31.0

73.4

237.2

956.7

1,743.1

181.0

21.2

Source: Georgia Crime Information Center

CRIME TRENDS AND COMPARISONS
The five year trend from 1982-1986indicates that Index crimes peaked during 1986. After a sharp decline in 1983, figures are again on an upward pattern. The total increase for Index crimes in 1986 was 11.1 percent (Table 15). Examination of rates for individual Index crimes shows that all increased in 1985 and 1986 with the exception of rape which dropped by 0.8 percent in 1986 (Table 16).
Table 17 indicates that Georgia, the South and the United States experienced an increase for Index crimes for 1986.

CHANGES IN CRIME RATES
Crime rates must be interpreted with the understanding that they are the product of changes in both the number of crimes reported and population. For this reason, analysis of crime rate comparison is important since comparable groups, whether counties or states or specific groups of persons of a certain age range, race, or sex, can be compared to determine a rate per 100,000 persons. Table 19 relates crime and population from 1982-1986.

Table 15
CHANGES IN NUMBER OF INDEX CRIMES GEORGIA, 1982-1986

Type of Crime

1982

1983

1984

1985

Murder (% Change)
Forcible Rape (% Change)
Robbery (% Change)
Aggravated Assault (% Change)

Total violent crime (% Change)
Burglary (% Change)
Larceny (% Change)
Motor vehicle theft (% Change)
Arson (% Change)
Total property crime (% Change)

29,444 -0.5%
82,256 -7.4%

26,442 - 10.2%
70,080 -14.8%

28,168 6.5%
69,659 -0.6%

30,220 7.3%
77,809 11.7%

17,765 -1.6% 1,154 -6.9%
260,110 -3.8%

15,954 - 10.2% 1,046 -9.4%
224,722
- 13.6%

17,626 10.5%
1,068 2.1%
23 1,085 2.8%

22,868 29.7% 1,264 18.4%
266,084 15.1%

Total Index crime (% Change)

289,554 -3.5%

251,164 -13.3%

259,253 3.2%

296,304 14.3 %

Source: Georgia Crime Information Center

1986
35,893 18.8% 86,619 11.3%
27,868 21.9% 1,324 4.7%
293,251 10.2%
329,144 11.1%

Table 16
CHANGES IN INDEX CRIME RATES PER 100,000 PERSONS GEORGIA, 1982-1986

Type of Crime
Murder (% Change)
Forcible Rape (% Change)
Robbery (% Change)
Aggravated Assault (% Change)
Total violent crime (% Change)
Burglary (% Change)
Larceny (% Change)
Motor vehicle theft (% Change)
Arson (% Change)
Total property crime (% Change)

1982
520.1 -2.3%
4,595.4 -5.5%

1983
459.2 -11.7%
3,902.2 -15.1%

1984

1985

1986

480.9 4.7%

507.3 5.5%

592.8 16.9%

3,944.9 1.1%

4,467.1 13.2%

4,843.0 8.4%

1982 1986
14.0%
5.4%

Total Index crime (% Change)

5,115.5 -5.2%

Source: Georgia Crime Information Center

4,361.4 - 14.7%

4,425.8 1.5%

4,974.4 12.4%

5,435.7 9.3%

6.3%

Table 17
INDEX CRIME TRENDS GEORGIA, SOUTH, NATION, l982-1986

Georgia South Nation

1982 % Change

288,400 4,220,401 12,857,218

-3.5% -1.1% -3.3%

1983 % Change

250,118 3,932,209 11,955,815

-13.3% -6.8% -7.0%

1984 % Change

258,185 3,892,887 11,597,141

3.2% -1.0% -3.0%

1985 % Change

295,040 4,302,605 12,430,026

14.3% 10.5% 7.2%

1986 % Change

327,820 4,737,858 13,210,698

11.1% 10.1% 6.3%

Arson totals are not included in this table. Source: FBI, Uniform Crime Reporting Preliminary Annual Release: Crime in the United States I Georgia Crime Information Center

Type of Crime
Murder (% Change)
Forcible Rape (% Change)
Robbery (% Change)
Aggravated Assault (% Change)
Total violent crime (% Change)
Burglary (% Change)
Larceny (% Change)
Motor vehicle theft (% Change)
Total property crime (% Change)
Total Index crime (% Change)

Table 18
CHANGES IN NUMBER OF INDEX CRIMES GEORGIA, SOUTH, NATION, 1982-1986

Georgia

1982

1986

South

1982

1986

Nation

1982

1986

82,256 158,935

86,619 5.3%
177,440 11.6%

17,765 27,868 56.9%

1,175,464 2,325,972

1,262,463 7.4%
2,581,444 11.0%

279,563

380,682 36.2%

3,415,540 7,107,663

3,227,015 -5.5%
7,272,699 2.3%

1,048,310 1,224,177 16.8%

258,956 291,927 12.7%
288,400 327,820 13.7%

3,780,999

4,224,589 11.7%

11,571,513 11,723,891 1.3%

-

-

-

-

-

- -

4,220,401 4,737,858 12.3%

12,857,218 13,210,698 2.7%

Arson comparisons are not available for this table Source: FBI, Uniform Crime Reporting Preliminary Annual Release: Crime in the United States: Georgia Crime Infomlation Center

NUMBER REPORTED (Thousands)

NUMBER REPORTED (Millions)

C

C

C

C

C

W

C

u

~

4

m

(

D

O

r

N

W

P

Table 19
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CRIME AND POPULATION, GEORGIA 19821986

No. Index

Index

Year

Population

% Change

Crimes

% Change

Crime Rate

% Change

Source: Georgia Crime Information Center; Office of Planning and Budget Population Estimates
Figure 14A
REPORTED INDEX CRIMES

1982

1983

1984

1771

YEAR
INDEX CRIMES

1985

1986

Figure 14B
REPORTED INDEX CRIME RATES - PER 100,000 PERSONS, 1982 1986
YEAR (771 CRIME RATS

PROFILE OF NON-INDEX CRIMES IN GEORGIA
The number of Non-Index crimes reported to GCIC has increased every year from 1982 to 1985. DUI data for 1986 are not available as of print date, however, in comparing crime totals, excluding DUI, for 1982 through 1985 totals for other Non-Index crimes continue to reflect an upward trend (see Table 20).
Non-Index crimes have not registered the same pattern demonstrated over the past 5 years as Index crimes (See Figure 15).Because of the seriousnessof Index crimes, they are more

likely to be reported; however, increased public and law enforcement awareness of certain Non-Index crimes has resulted in more frequent and accurate reporting. Included are narcotics offenses and crimes against children which embody several categories including other sex offenses, family offenses, and rapes involvinigjuveniles. (Note: Rape is an Index offense).
This section contains analyses of arrests for drug law violations and crimes against children.

Table 20
PROFILE OF REPORTED NON-INDEX CRIMES, 1982-1986

NON-INDEX CRIMES
Other Assault Forgerylcounterfeiting Fraud Embezzlement Stolen Property Vandalism Weapons Violation Prostitution1 Commercial Vice Other Sex Offense Narcotic Drug Laws Gambling Family Offense DUI Liquor Laws Drunkenness Public Disturbance Vagrancy Other Offense CurfewILoitering Runaway
Total
Source: Georgia Crime Information Center
*DUI totals unavailable as of print date

1982 221,954

1983 241,698

1984 258,645

1985 282,549

1986 240,003

Figure 15
REPORTED NON-INDEX CRIME INCIDENTS - 1982 1986
260

1771 YggR NON-INDEX CRIME ( e x c l u d i n g D U I )
Table 21
PROFILE OF REPORTED NON-INDEX CRIMES STATEWIDE, 1985-1986

NON-INDEX CRIMES

1985 % of Total

1986 % of Total

Other Assault ForgeryICounterfeiting Fraud Embezzlement Stolen Property Vandalism Weapons Violation Prostitution1 Commercial Vice Other Sex Offense Narcotic Drug Laws Gambling Family Offense DUI Liquor Laws Drunkenness Public Disturbance Vagrancy Other Offense CurfewILoitering Runaway

Total

282,549

100.0% 240,003

Source: Georgia Crime Information Center *DUI totals unavailable as of print date
46

100.0%

CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN 19821986
Specific offense and arrest information for crimes against children may be analyzed to determine trends in the areas of rape, kidnapping, sex offenses, cruelty towards a child, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and child neglect as these crimes apply to children and those arrested. (Note: Data on the specific crime category murder of children are not available).
The pattern of offenses within these categories for 1982-1986 do not conform to the pattern for all total offenses reported during the same period. Reports of these particular offenses have increased each year since 1982, with a slight decrease

in 1986, while the totals for all crimes combined declined in 1983, increased through 1985 and showed a slight decrease in 1986 (1986 totals do not include DUI data).
Increased public attention has been focused on crimes against children. Legislative attention at the state and federal level has mandated that these crimes be a primary focus for law enforcement agencies at all levels of government.
This increased awareness and large numbers of reported arrests for these crimes show a greater sensitivity to such crimes.

Table 22A
REPORTED CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN GEORGIA, 1982-1986

CRIME

1982 1983 1984 1985 1986

Rape* Kidnapping** Sex Offense*** Cruelty Towards Child Contributing to Delinquency of a Minor Child Neglect Total

86

85

69

25

46

90

99

115

187

154

755 832 1,245 1,484 1,208

692 749 1,071 1,165 1,274

374 1,872 3,869

47 1 1,721 3,957

453 1,445 4,398

376 1,784 5,021

525 1,406 4,613

Table 22B
REPORTED ARRESTS FOR CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN GEORGIA, 1982-1986

CRIME

1982 1983 1984 1985 1986

Rape* Female Male
Kidnapping** Female Male
Sex Offense*** Female Male
Cruelty Towards Child Female Male
Contributing to Delinquency of a Minor
Female Male Child Neglect Female Male
Total

* Rape committed against juveniles includes the specific charges of: sexual assault-sodomy-boy-gun, sexual assault-
sodomy-girl-gun, sexual assault-sodomy-boy, sexual assault-sodomy-girl, sexual assault-sodomy-boy-seongarma,nd sexual assault-sodomy-girl-strongarm.
** Kidnapping ofjuveniles includes the specific charge of: kidnap minor for ransom, kidnap minor to sexually assault,
and kidnap minor.
*** Sexual offenses against juveniles include the specific charges of: child fondling, homosexual act with boy, homo-
sexual act with girl, and incest with minor.
Source: Uniform Crime Reporting database, Georgia Crime Information Center

ARRESTS FOR CRIMES
Trends, Characteristics, Comparisons
Numbers and rates of arrests are useful measures of law enforcement activity and official responses to crime. Arrest statistics also provide some insight into the composition of the criminal population, particularly as regards age, sex and race. The varied policies and emphasis of law enforcement agencies influence the volume and type of arrests made. However, arrest practices for crimes are relatively uniform, allowing comparisons over time. Furthermore, it must be understood that because an individual can be arrested more than once during a given year, annual arrest statistics more accurately reflect the number of arrests made, rather than the number of different persons taken into custody.
Arrest data reflect the actual number of arrests reported, not necessarily all those that took place.

Profile of Index Arrest Trends
During the period 1982-1986, the number of arrests made by Georgia law enforcement agencies for Index crimes decreased
0.8% . However, 1986 shows the largest increase in reported
arrests since 1982. The number of arrests increased for all violent Index Crimes. Murder increased 0.4 % , forcible rape
12.2%,robbery 1.0%,and aggravated assault by 3.8% . Total
violent crime increased 3.6% from 1982 to 1986. Increases were also reported for larceny (2.3%) and motor vehicle theft
(15.1%). Decreases were reported for burglary (-17.4%) and
arson (-8.7%) (See Table 23). Arrests were made for only a small portion of reported crime incidents (See Table 24).

Figure 16
REPORTED INDEX ARRESTS - FIVE YEAR TREND, 1982 1986
70

f771 YEAR INDBX ARRESTS

Figure 17A
INDEX CRIME ARRESTS
BY AGE. 1982
22-26 (21.6%)
Figure 17B INDEX CRIME ARRESTS
BY AGE. 1986

Profile of Persons Arrested
With the exceptions of murder, aggravated assault and arson, young people aged 17 through 26 were more frequently arrested for violent and property crimes. Population estimates reveal the percentage of persons aged 17-21 has fallen approximately 2% from 1982to 1986. Comparing arrest figures from 1982to 1986there is a decrease in the percentage of persons arrested in the age groups 17-21 and 22-26 (even though these two age groups are still the highest in percentage arrested) and an increase in the percentage in age groups 27-31,32-36, and 37+ (See Table 25). In addition, males were arrested more frequently than females, and non-whites were arrested more often than whites. See Table 26 for arrests by age, sex, and race.

Profile of Juvenile Arrests for Index Crimes
In Georgia, juveniles are persons 16 years of age and under. In 1986,juveniles accounted for 9.8% of all arrests for Index crimes. This represents an increase of 1.9% from 7.9 % in 1982. The percentage of total arrests slightly decreased from 1982-1986 (See Table 25).
In 1986, juveniles represented the lowest percentage of arrest rates for each category of Index violent crimes (See Tables 26 and 27). Table 27 indicates that juveniles are more likely to be arrested for property crimes such as burglary, larceny and motor vehicle theft rather than violent crimes.
Note: Population estimates are based upon extrapolationsof projections provided by the Office of Planning and Budget.

Table 23
PROFILE OF REPORTED ARRES'IIS FOR INDEX CRIMES 1982'086

Type of Crime
Murder (% Change)
Forcible Rape (% Change)
Robbery
(% Chang.e.)
Aggravated Assault (% Change)
Total violent crime (% Change)
Burglary (% Change)
Larceny (% Change)
Motor vehicle theft (% Change)
Arson (% Change)

1982
668 -10.7%
869 -7.1% 2,934 -2.1 % 9,662
8.7%
14,133 4.2%

Total property crime (% Change)
Total Index crime (% Change)

40,811 4.6%
54,944 4.5%

Source: Georgia Crime Information Center

1983 590 -11.7% 923 6.2% 2,677 -8.8% 8,706 -9.9%
12,896 -8.8%
35,624 - 12.7%
48,520 -11.7%

1984 574 -2.7% 942 2.1% 2,502 -6.5% 8,618 - 1.0%
12,636 -2.0%
33,966 -4.7%
46,602 -4.0%

1985 62 1 8.2% 1,000 6.2% 2,687 7.4% 9,254 7.4%
13,562 7.3%
39,281 15.6%
52,843 13.4%

1986 67 1 8.1%
975 -2.5%
2,964 10.3% 10,033 8.4%
14,643 8.0%
39,850 1.4%
54,493 3.1 %

- 1982
1986 0.4% 12.2% 1.0% 3.8% 3.6%
-2.4% -0.8%

Table 24
COMPARISON OF NUMBER OF REPORTED INDEX CRIMES AND NUMBER OF REPORTED INDEX CRIME ARRESTS, 1982-1986

'Qpe of Crime

1982 1982 1983 1983 1984 1984 1985 1985 1986 1986 Incidents Arrests Incidents Arrests Incidents Arrests Incidents Arrests Incidents Arrests

Murder Forcible Rape Robbery Aggravated Assault

744 2,453 9,763 16,484

668 869 2,934 9,662

460 2,188 8,489 15,305

590 923 2,677 8,706

562 2,530 8,823 16,253

574 942 2,502 8,618

603
2,805 10,078 16,734

62 1 1,000 2,687 9,254

653 2,827 13,315 19,098

67 1 975 2,964 10,033

Total violent crime

29,444 14,133 26,442 12,896 28,168 12,636 30,220 13,562 35,893 14,643

Burglary Larceny Motor vehicle theft Arson

82,256 158,935
17,765 1,154

10,844 70,080 8,530 69,659 7,654 77,809 8,570 86,619 8,961 27,414 137,642 24,885 142,732 24,173 164,143 28,281 177,440 28,038

2,187 15,954 366 1,046

1,918 17,626 291 1,068

1,861 22,868 278 1,264

2,140 27,868 290 1,324

2,517 334

Total property crime

260,110 40,811 224,722 35,624 231,085 33,966 266,084 39,281 293,251 39,850

Total Index crime

289,554 54,944 251,164 48,520 259,253 46,602 296,304 52,843 329,144 54,493

Source: Georgia Crime Information Center

Age Group
0-16 17-2 1 22-26 27-3 1
+ 32-36
37 Total

Table 25
GEORGIA ARRESTS FOR INDEX CRIMES 1982-1986, BY AGE GROUP

Source: Georgia Crime Information Center

Table 26
PROFILE OF PERSONS ARRESTED BY SPECIFIC AGE, SEX, RACE, 1986

AGE

Type of Crime

16 and Under

17-21

22-26

27-31

32-36

37 and Over

Murder

2.8%

18.8%

21.5%

20.1 %

12.1%

24.7%

Forcible Rape

5.3%

24.8%

21.3 %

19.6%

12.2%

16.7%

Robbery

5.4%

28.2%

27.8%

19.4%

10.6%

8.6%

Aggravated Assault

3.7%

15.3%

21.6%

19.6%

12.9%

26.8%

Total Violent Crime

4.1%

18.7%

22.9%

19.6%

12.4%

22.3%

Burglary Larceny Motor Vehicle Theft Arson
Total Property Crime

12.0% 11.6% 14.7% 10.8%
11.9%

37.7% 28.5% 37.8% 17.1%
31.0%

22.2 % 19.5 % 18.6% 15.6%
20.0%

13.1% 15.3% 12.3% 17.4%
-
14.6%

7.9%

7.1%

9.8%

15.3%

7.6%

9.0%

12.9%

26.3%

-

-

9.3%

13.2%

Total Index Crime

9.8%

27.7%

20.8%

16.0%

10.1%

15.6%

Type Crime
Murder Forcible Rape Robbery Aggravated Assault
Total Violent Crime
Burglary Larceny Motor Vehicle Theft Arson
Total Property Crime
Total Index Crime
Source: Georgia Crime Information Center

SEX

Male

Female

85.3%

14.7%

76.3% 78.7%

23.7% 21.3%

RACE

White

Non-White

31.5%

68.5%

42.0% 39.2%

58.0% 60.8%

Table Z l
ARREST RATES PER 100,000 PERSONS BY SPECIFIC AGE, SEX, RACE, 1986

Type of Crime

Total Arrest Rates 16 and Under 17-21

AGE

22-26

27-31

32-36

37 and Over

Murder

11.1

1.2

24.5

27.7

25.6

16.4

7.0

Forcible Rape

16.1

3.2

47.0

40.0

36.2

24.1

6.9

Robbery

48.9

9.9

162.6

158.6

108.7

63.5

10.8

Aggravated Assault

165.7

22.9

299.1

418.1

372.9

263.2

112.9

Total Violent Crime

241.8

37.1

533.2

644.5

543.4

367.3

137.5

Burglary Larceny Motor Vehicle Theft Arson

148.0 463.0 41.6
5.5

66.5 200.5 22.7
2.2

655.8 1550.3 184.9
11.1

382.9 1050.9
90.1 10.0

222.0 811.6 58.7
11.0

143.4 559.5
38.7 8.7

26.8 181.0
9.6 3.7

Total Property Crime

658.1

291.9

2402.0 1533.8 1103.4 750.4

221 .O

Total Index Crime

899.9

329.0

2935.2 2178.3 1646.8 1117.6

358.6

Type Crime
Murder Forcible Rape Robbery Aggravated Assault
Total Violent Crime
Burglary Larceny Motor Vehicle Theft Arson
Total Property Crime
Total Index Crime
Source: Georgia Crime Information Center

SEX

Male

Female

1035.4 1461.1

302.5 371.3

White

RACE Non-White

387.3 494.0

1326.3 1901.9

Table 28
GEORGIA ARRESTS FOR INDEX CRIMES, 1972-1986

VIOLENT OFFENSES

PROPERTY OFFENSES

Year

Number

Rate 100,000

Number

Rate 100,000

INDEX CRIMES, BY RACE

VIOLENT OFFENSES

PROPERTY OFFENSES

Year

White

Non-White

White

Non-White

Source: Georgia Crime Information Center; Office of Planning and Budget Population Estimate
Note: The inclusion of arson as an Index offense began in 1980. Some variance in crime rate will occur in comparing the yearly figures prior to 1980

PROFILE OF NON-INDEX ARREST TRENDS
Arrests for Non-Index crimes from 1982 through 1986 followed a pattern similar to that experienced for Index arrests. Both Index and Non-Index arrests peaked in 1982 and decreased in 1983 and 1984. In 1985, however, arrests for Index crimes rose just over 13%,but were still below the 1982 level. Non-Index totals cannot be compared because 1986 DUI arrest totals were unavailable prior to publication date. They are comparable if the DUI arrests are omitted from the totals of the four preceding years (See Table 29).

PROFILE OF JUVENILE ARRESTS FOR NON-INDEX CRIMES
Table 30 indicates that the percentage of Non-Index crimes committed by juveniles remained low throughout the period 1982-1986. Considering the population factor, arrest rates for juveniles for each Non-Index crimes, were generally the lowest for each age group (See Table 32). Of all Non-Index crimes, Other Assaults, Other Offenses and Runaways ranked the highest of juvenile Non-Index arrests. Though juvenile Index arrests clearly demonstrated a tendency toward higher figures for property crimes, Non-Index arrests did not show the same distinction. Other Assaults were higher in 1986 compared to arrests for stolen property (See Table 31).

Table 29
PROFILE OF REPORTED NON-INDEX CRIME ARRESTS, 1982-1986

PART I1 CRIMES

1982

1983

1984

1985

Other Assault Forgerytcounterfeiting Fraud Embezzlement Stolen Property Vandalism Weapons Violation Prostitution1 Commercial Vice Other Sex Offense Narcotic Drug Laws Gambling Family Offense DUI Liquor Laws Drunkenness Public Disturbance Vagrancy Other Offense CurfewtLoitering Runaway

Total

256,589

244,109

238,238

226,077

Source: Georgia Crime Information Center *Note: DUI totals unavailable as of print date

1986 171,357

Figure 18

REPORTED NON-INDEX CRIME ARRESTS

FIVE

w .l98Z - 1988

a00

100

180

170

180

150

140

YMR NON INDEX CRIMES ( e x c l u d i n g D U I )

Age Group

Table 30
REPORTED NON-INDEX CRIME ARRESTS 1982-1986, BY AGE GROUP

1982 %

1983 %

1984 %

1985 %

1986 %

Total

256,589 100.0% 244,109 100.0% 238,238 100.0% 226,077 100.0% 171,357 100.0%

Source: Georgia Crime Information Center 1986 Total does not include arrests for DUI which are unavailable

Figure 19A
NON-INDEX CRIME ARRESTS
BY AGE, 1982
0-16 (1.5%)
Figure 19B NON-INDEX CRIME ARRESTS
BY AGE. 1986
0-16 (3.2%)

Table 31
REPORTED NON-INDEX CRIME ARRESTS BY AGE, 1986

AGE

NON-INDEX CRIMES

16 and Under

17-21

22-26

27-31

32-36

-
37 and Above

Other Assault Forgery /Counterfeiting Fraud Embezzlement Stolen Property Vandalism Weapons Violation Prostitution1 Commercial Vice Other Sex Offense Narcotic Drug Laws Gambling Family Offense DUI Liquor Laws Drunkenness Public Disturbance Vagrancy Other Offense CurfewILoitering Runaway

Total

5,470

33,078

41,349

34,188

22,926

34,346

Source: Georgia Crime Information Center

*DUI totals unavailable as of print date

Table 32

REPORTED NON-INDEX CRIME ARREST RATES PER 100,000 PERSONS

1986, BY AGE

-

-

-

-

TOTAL

AGE

NON-INDEX CRIMES ARREST RATES 16 and Under Per 100,000 17-21 Per 100,000 22-26

Per 100,000

Other Assault Forgery /Counterfeiting Fraud Embezzlement Stolen Property Vandalism Weapons Violation Prostitution1 Commercial Vice Other Sex Offense Narcotic Drug Laws Gambling Family Offense DUI Liquor Laws Drunkenness Public Disturbance Vagrancy Other Offense CurfewILoitering Runaway
Total Arrest Rates
Source: Georgia Crime Information Center
*DUI totals unavailable as of print date

2829.9

5,470

337.0 33,078

6425.2 41,349

7959.7

Table 32
REPORTED NON-INDEX CRIME ARREST RATES PER 100,000 PERSONS 1986, BY AGE
AGE
27-31 Per 100,000 32-36 Per 100,000 37 and Above Per 100,000

Table 33
REPORTED NON-INDEX CRIME ARRESTS STATEWIDE BY SEX AND RACE, 1986

NON-INDEX CRIMES

Male Percent Female Percent White Percent Non-White Percent

Other Assault Forgerylcounterfeiting Fraud Embezzlement Stolen Property Vandalism Weapons Violation Prostitution1 Commercial Vice Other Sex Offense Narcotic Drug Laws Gambling Family Offense DUI Liquor Laws Drunkenness Public Disturbance Vagrancy Other Offense CurfewILoitering Runaway

Total Arrest Rates

135,682 79.2% 35,675 20.8% 88,339 51.6%

83,018 48.4%

Source: Georgia Crime Information Center *DUI totals unawilable as of print date

DRUG VIOLATIONS 1982-1986
Though violations of drug laws are not Index offenses, drug offenses challenge the resources of law enforcment from the level of the street sale to the massive organizations which manufacture, import, and distribute drugs in the United States.
For 1982 and 1983 arrests for drug violations in Georgia decreased from 21,145 to 17,428. The total steadily increased to 21,478 in 1986, a 1.6% increase over the five year period.
Each year from 1982 to 1986, persons were arrested for

offenses related to marijuana more frequently than any other drug, though in 1983 and 1986 marijuana related arrests declined.
During the same five year period, increases were noted in arrests for Cocaine (615.0%), Heroin (148.4%), and Narcotic
Equipment (298.2%) .
Cocaine arrests doubled in the period from 1983 to 1984. Arrests for possessionluse of narcotic equipment showed an even greater increase during this period.

Table 34
REPORTED DRUG ARRESTS STATEWIDE 19821086

Drug
Amphetamme Barbiturate Cocaine Halluc~nogen Hemin Marijuana Narcotic Equipment Opium Synthetic Narcotic
Free Text*
Yearly Total

Rank
3 4 2 8 9 1 7 5 6
8,902
21,145

1983 % Change Rank

182 -37.2%

6

105 4 8 . 8 %

7

911

55.2%

2

63

3.3%

8

112 261.3%

5

9,181 1 3 . 7 %

1

127

16 5%

3

129 -31.7%

9

147

15.7%

4

6,471

-27.3%

17,428

-17.6%

Note: Free Text - Includes all other violations of state and local laws relating to the unlawful possession, sale, use, growing, manufacturing and making of narcotic drugs which cannot be singularly classified in categories 1-9.
Source: Georgia Crime Information Center

1984 % Change Rank

129 -29.1%

6

63 -40.0%

7

1,822

100.0%

2

59

-6.3%

8

167

49.1%

5

10,113

10.2%

1

280

120.5%

3

12 -90.7%

9

181

23.1%

4

6,540

1.1%

19,366

11.1%

% Change Rank

-44.2%

6

-46.0%

8

26.8%

2

-15.3%

7

-40.7%

5

3.9%

1

282%

3

0.0%

9

-36.5%

4

7,216

10.3%

20.778

7.3%

% Change Rank

-50.0%

6

-35.3%

8

81.5%

2

52.0%

7

-22.2%

4

-7.5%

I

20.9%

3

-58.3%

9

-56.5%

5

6,912

-4.2%

21,478

3.4%

-22.4% 1.6%

PROFILE OF REPORTED CLEARANCES
According to the FBIIUCR handbook, reported offenses can be cleared by arrest or exceptional means (certain circumstances when arrest of the suspect will be impossible). For purposes of statistical reporting, the number of offenses, not the number of persons arrested, are counted in clearance reports.
Overall trends in clearances for Index and Non-Index crimes follow very similar patterns from 1982 to 1986. Clearances

have steadily risen in 1984 and 1985 with a slight decrease in 1986 for both Index and Non-Index crimes (See Figure 20).
Clearance rate is defined as the number of clearances divided by the number of reported crimes. Tables 37 and 38 represent the actual clearance rates for each year. Due to variances in reporting practices, care should be exercised in comparing law enforcement agency clearance rates. Yearly totals, however, are useful for comparison.

Table 35
PROFILE OF REPORTED INDEX CRIME CLEARANCES, 1982-1986

INDEX CRIMES

1982

1983

1984

1985

Murder & Non-neg. Mansl. Forcible Rape Robbery Aggravated Assault Burglary LarcenyITheft Motor Vehicle Theft Arson

Total
Source: Georgia Crime Information Center

60,043

34,578

53,619

91,638

1986 70,837

Figure 20
INDEX CRIME CLEARANCES
- FIVE YBAR TREND. 1982 1986
100

YEAR
[771 INDW CRntlrS Table 36
PROFILE OF REPORTED NON-INDEX CRIME CLEARANCES, B82-I986

NON-INDEX CRIMES

1982

1983

1984

1985

Other Assault Forgerylcounterfeiting Fraud Embezzlement Stolen Property Vandalism Weapons Violation Prostitution1 Commercial Vice Other Sex Offense Narcotic Drug Laws Gambling Family Offense DUI Liquor Laws Drunkenness Public Disturbance Vagrancy Other Offense CurfewlLoitering Runaway

Total
Source: Georgia Crime Information Center *Data unavailable as of print date

211,577

92,119

140,627

175,435

1986 142,92L

Figure 21

NON-INDEX
PNE

YEACR RTRIIMND,EIS8C2 L- 1E- ARANCES

YEAR NON-INDEX CRIYES

Index Crimes
Murder & Non-neg. Mansl. Forcible Rape Robbery Aggravated Assault Burglary LarcenyITheft Motor Vehicle Theft Arson

Table 37
CLEARANCE RATES INDEX CRIMES, 1982-1986

Total
Source: Georgia Crime Information Center

20.7

13.8

20.7

30.9

Table 38
CLEARANCE RATES, NON-INDEX CRIMES, 1982-1986

NON-INDEX CRIMES

1982

1983

1984

1985

Other Assault Forgerylcounterfeiting Fraud Embezzlement Stolen Property Vandalism Weapons Violation Prostitution1 Commercial Vice Other Sex Offense Narcotic Drug Laws Gambling Family Offense DUI Liquor Laws Drunkenness Public Disturbance Vagrancy Other Offense CurfewILoitering Runaway

Total
Source: Georgia Crime Information Center *Data unavailable as of print date

95.3

38.1

54.4

63.8

21.5 1986
59.6

COUNTY CRIME PROFILES
Index crime profiles for counties, shown in Table 41A, were developed from 1985 and 1986 reports submitted to the Georgia Crime Information Center by participating law enforcement agencies. Also included are Non-Index county crime profiles for 1985 and 1986 (See Table 41B). County totals are actual numbers reported; estimates for unreported crime are not included. In addition, some agencies did not consistently submit crime reports for those years which, in effect, lowered county totals.
County Rankings
Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb, Chatham and Gwinnett counties accounted for more than one-half of all the Index crimes

reported in Georgia in 1986. Tables 39 and 40 list Georgia's 159 counties by their rankings in total Index crimes reported and Index crime rates, respectively. Great care should be exercised in any effort to interpret these data due to the existence of disparate reporting processes in some counties. However, in a majority of counties at least one law enforcement agency reported to the Georgia Crime Information Center in accordance with established laws. Consequently, these data provide a useful ranking of Index crimes and Index crime rates within the individual counties, to the extent that reporting and non-reporting practices of law enforcement agencies in the several counties are consistent from year to year.

County

Table 39
RANKING OF COUNTIES BY NUMBER OF REPORTED INDEX CRIMES, 1986

Number of Reported Index Crimes

County

Number of Reported Index Crimes

County

Number of Reported Index Crimes

Fulton Dekalb Cobb Chatham Gwinnett Richmond Muscogee Clayton Bibb Lowndes Clarke Dougherty Glynn Houston Hall Troup Floyd Whitfield Spalding Carroll Douglas Rockdale Ware Tift Newton Baldwin Crisp Thomas Liberty Henry Sumter Colquitt Walker Bartow Coweta Columbia Bulloch Forsyth Laurens Coffee Cherokee Fayette Gordon Barrow Ben Hill Polk Walton Camden Paulding Decatur Burke Jackson Catoosa

Upson Haralson Chattooga Mitchell Monroe Stephens Wayne Elbert Washington Worth Murray Emanuel Appling Effingham Cook Bryan Harris Rabun Madison Bacon Grady Franklin Lamar Early Peach Berrien Irwin Morgan Jenkins Fannin Jeff Davis Toombs Screven Jones Wilkes Putnam Butts Macon Pulaski Turner Dade Tattnall Dawson Seminole Hart White Terrell Greene Jefferson Oglethorpe McDuffie McIntosh Lumpkin

Crawford Gilmer Lanier Wilkinson Pierce Calhoun Candler Brantley Lincoln Pickens Randolph Taylor Banks Oconee Brooks Treutlen Jasper Bleckley Talbot Habersham Pike Heard Dodge Schley Telfair Stewart Twiggs Lee Meriwether Wilcox Clinch Baker Marion Evans Hancock Atkinson Chattahoochee Clay Miller Taliaferro Towns Johnson Union
Long Wheeler Dooly Montgomery Warren Webster Charlton Echols Glascock Quitman

Source: Office of Planning and Budget, Population Estimates; Georgia Crime Information Center
68

Table 40
RANKINGS OF COUNTIES BY INDEX CRIME RATES PER 100,000 PERSONS, 1986

County

Index Crime Rate Per 100,000 Persons

County

Index Crime Rate Per 100,000 Persons

County

Index Crime Rate Per 100,000 Persons

Fulton Glynn Crisp Lowndes Chatham Dekalb Clarke Troup Bibb Richmond Gwinnett Spalding Tift Camden Muscogee Clayton Cobb Dougherty Ware Sumter Ben Hill Newton Baldwin Whitfield Coffee Carroll Houston Barrow Hall Dawson Floyd Thomas Rockdale Colquitt Forsyth Burke Bulloch Monroe Henry Haralson Liberty Laurens Bacon Gordon Douglas Coweta Bartow Rabun Chattooga Irwin Jenkins Mitchell Bryan

Decatur Jackson Elbert Cook Stephens Upson Columbia Washington Paulding Fayette Polk Wayne Lanier Appling Walker Worth Pulaski Walton Lamar Turner Calhoun Morgan McIntosh Jeff Davis Early Emanuel Wilkes Putnam Seminole Harris Schley Murray Cherokee Berrien Oglethorpe Franklin Effingham Catoosa White Fannin Crawford Screven Dade Madison Lincoln Treutlen Taliaferro Macon Butts Terrell Greene Candler Grady

Lumpkin Baker Taibot Peach Taylor Gilmer Jones Stewart Wilkinson Brantley Heard Jasper Tattnall Toombs Banks Randolph Hart Clay Jefferson Marion Pierce Pickens McDuffie Bleckley Pike Clinch Wilcox Atkinson Twiggs Oconee Brooks Telfair Evans Miller Hancock Dodge Lee Towns Webster Habersham
Long Meriwether Wheeler Johnson Chattahoochee Union Montgomery Warren Echols Quitman Glascock Dooly Charlton

Source: Office of Planning and Budget, Population Estimates; Georgia Crime Information Center
69

County
Appling 1985 1986
Atkinson 1985 1986
Bacon 1985 1986
Baker 1985 1986
Baldwin 1985 1986
Banks 1985 1986
Barrow 1985 1986

Table 41A
COUNTY CRIME PROFILES, INDEX CRIMES, 1985-1986

Motor

Index Violent Property

Forcible

Aggravated

Vehicle

Crimes Crimes Crimes Murders Rapes Robberies Assault Burglaries Larcenies Thefts Arson

Ben Hill 1985 1986
Berrien 1985 1986
Bibb 1985 1986
Bleckley 1985 1986
Brantley 1985 1986
Brooks 1985 1986
Bryan 1985 1986
Bulloch 1985 1986

Table 41A
COUNTY CRIME PROFILES, INDEX CRIMES, 1985-1986 - Continued

County

Motor

Index Violent Property

Forcible

Aggravated

Vehicle

Crimes Crimes Crimes Murders Rapes Robberies Assault Burglaries Larcenies T h e h Arson

Burke 1985 1986

Butts 1985 1986
Calhoun 1985 1986
Camden 1985 1986

Candler 1985 1986

Carroll 1985 1986

Catoosa 1985 1986

Charlton 1985 1986

Chatham 1985 1986
Chattahoochee 1985 1986

Chattooga 1985 1986
Cherokee 1985 1986

Clarke 1985 1986
Clay 1985 1986
Clay ton 1985 1986
Clinch 1985 1986

County
Cobb 1985 1986
Coffee 1985 1986
Colquitt 1985 1986
Columbia 1985 1986
Cook 1985 1986
Coweta 1985 1986
Crawford 1985 1986
Crisp 1985 1986
Dade 1985 1986
Dawson 1985 1986
Decatur 1985 1986
DeKalb 1985 1986
Dodge 1985 1986
Dooly 1985 1986
Dougherty 1985 1986
Douglas 1985 1986

Table 41A
COUNTY CRIME PROFILES, INDEX CRIMES, 1985-1986 - Continued

Motor

Index Violent Property

Forcible

Aggravated

Vehicle

Crimes Crimes Crimes Murders Rapes Robberies Assault Burglaries Larcenies Thefts Arson

County
Early 1985 1986
Echols 1985 1986
Effingham 1985 1986
Elbert 1985 1986
Emanuel 1985 1986
Evans 1985 1986
Fannin 1985 1986
Fayette 1985 1986
Floyd 1985 1986
Forsyth 1985 1986
Franklin 1985 1986
Fulton 1985 1986
Gilmer 1985 1986
Glascock 1985 1986
Glynn 1985 1986
Gordon 1985 1986

Table 41A
COUNTY CRIME PROFILES, INDEX CRIMES, 1985-1986 - Continued

Motor

Index Violent property

Forcible

Aggravated

Vehicle

Crimes Crimes Crimes Murders Rapes Robberies Assault Burglaries Larcenies Thefts Arson

County
Grady 1985 1986
Greene 1985 1986
Gwinnett 1985 1986
Habersham 1985 1986
Hall 1985 1986
Hancock 1985 1986
Haralson 1985 1986
Harris 1985 1986
Hart 1985 1986
Heard 1985 1986
Henry 1985 1986
Houston 1985 1986
Irwin 1985 1986
Jackson 1985 1986
Jasper 1985 1986
Jeff Davis 1985 1986

Table 41A
COUNTY CRIME PROFILES, INDEX CRIMES, 1985-1986 - Continued

Motor

Index Violent Property

Forcible

Aggravated

Vehicle

Crimes Crimes Crimes Murders Rapes Robberies Assault Burglaries Larcenies Thefts Arson

County
Jefferson 1985 1986
Jenkins 1985 1986
Johnson 1985 1986
Jones 1985 1986
Lamar 1985 1986
Lanier 1985 1986
Laurens 1985 1986
Lee 1985 1986
Liberty 1985 1986
Lincoln 1985 1986

Table 41A
COUNTY CRIME PROFILES, INDEX CRIMES, 1985-1986 - Continued

Motor

Index Violent Property

Forcible

Aggravated

Vehicle

Crimes Crimes Crimes Murders Rapes Robberies Assault Burglaries Larcenies Thefts Arson

Lowndes 1985 1986

Macon 1985 1986
Madison 1985 1986
Marion 1985 , 1986

Table 41A
COUNTY CRIME PROFILES, INDEX CRIMES, 1985-1986 - Continued

County
McDuffie 1985 1986
McIntosh 1985 1986
Meriwether 1985 1986
Miller 1985 1986
Mitchell 1985 1986
Monroe 1985 1986
Montgomery 1985 1986
Morgan 1985 1986
Murray 1985 1986
Muscogee 1985 1986
Newton 1985 1986
Oconee 1985 1986
Oglethorpe 1985 1986
Paulding 1985 1986
Peach 1985 1986
Pickens 1985 1986

Motor

Index Violent Property

Forcible

Aggravated

Vehicle

Crimes Crimes Crimes Murders Rapes Robberies Assault Burglaries Larcenies Thefts Arson

County
Pierce 1985 1986
Pike 1985 1986
Polk 1985 1986
Pulaski 1985 1986
Putnam 1985 1986
Quitman 1985 1986
Rabun 1985 1986
Randolph 1985 1986
Richmond 1985 1986
Rockdale 1985 1986
Schley 1985 1986
Screven 1985 1986
Seminole 1985 1986
Spalding 1985 1986
Stephens 1985 1986
Stewart 1985 1986

Table 41A
COUNTY CRIME PROFILES, INDEX CRIMES, 1985-1986 - Continued

Motor

Index Violent Property

Forcible

Aggravated

Vehicle

Crimes Crimes Crimes Murders Rapes Robberies Assault Burglaries Larcenies T h e h Arson

103

11

92

0

122

13

109

0

0

4

7

1

1

11

3 1

56

4

1

37

64

7

1

81

6

75

0

87

20

67

1

0

1

5

0

0

19

49

24

2

0

32

27

8

0

726

42

684

1

84 1

54

787

0

5

14

22

5

10

39

289

328

56 11

296

418

70

3

207

26

181

2

224

32

192

1

1

2

21

2

4

25

86

92

2

1

83

95

10

4

23 1

33

198

4

223

26

207

0

2

1

26

2

3

2 1

85

104

8

1

114

82

11

0

2

0

3

2

2

0

1

0

0

0

0

1

0

1

1

0

1

0

1

0

0

0

215

16

199

1

343

27

316

0

0

1

14

99

80

16

4

0

0

27

150

143

18

5

96

10

86

1

107

20

87

0

0

2

7

2

2

16

29

53

3

1

38

46

2

1

9,985

748 9,237

34

11,125 992 10,133

23

77

246

96

465

39 1

2,900

5,689

597 51

408

3,565

5,841

677 50

1,676

146 1,530

3

1,990 175 1,815

1

8

18

117

11

20

143'

434

966

121

9

490

1,191

131

3

56

13

43

0

72

10

62

0

5

0

8

0

0

10

22

16

4

1

28

29

2

3

219

16

203

0

257

34

223

3

3

2

11

85

109

8

1

2

6

23

102

104

13

4

185

32

153

0

203

38

165

1

4

1

27

0

7

30

58

89

46

11 1

4

2

8

0

2,750

328 2,422

11

2,880 313 2,567

5

18

56

243

24

59

225

678

1,589

146

9

750

1,639

162 16

660

34

626

0

568

47

521

2

2

6

26

9

10

26

233

347

40

6

138

340

35

8

96

13

83

2

67

15

52

0

1

1

9

1

1

13

37

44

1

1

29

20

3

0

County
Sumter 1985 1986
Talbot 1985 1986
Taliaferro 1985 1986
Tattnall 1985 1986
Taylor 1985 1986
Telfair 1985 1986
Terrell 1985 1986
Thomas 1985 1986
Tift 1985 1986
Toombs 1985 1986
Towns 1985 1986
Treutlen 1985 1986
Troup 1985 1986

Table 41A
COUNTY CRIME PROFILES, INDEX CRIMES, 1985-1986 - Continued

Motor

Index Violent Property

Forcible

Aggravated

Vehicle

Crimes Crimes Crimes Murders Rapes Robberies Assault Burglaries Larcenies Thefts Arson

1,570

173 1,397

7

1,571

198 1,373

2

15

2

13

0

93

2

91

0

44

5

39

1

30

4

26

1

119

3

116

0

216

16

200

1

107

20

87

0

104

27

77

0

99

3

96

0

68

3

65

0

229

22

207

1

191

20

171

2

1,569

108 1,461

4

1,610

173 1,437

6

1,652

228 1,424

2

1,964

278 1,686

6

299

32

267

3

26 1

26

235

3

14

0

14

0

24

0

24

0

59

6

53

1

98

4

94

1

2,817

367 2,450

6

3,312

332 2,980

12

20

23

123

15

35

146

0

0

2

0

2

0

1

0

3

0

2

1

0

1

2

1

4

10

1

2

17

1

3

23

0

2

1

0

1

2

3

1

17

2

2

14

8

20

76

11

41

115

12

26

188

20

52

200

1

4

24

3

2

18

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

4

0

1

2

15

37

309

18

44

25 8

426

900

360

97 1

6

5

46

35

10

23

7

15

62

42

109

77

38

43

3 1

40

39

52

27

35

77

116

65

85

43 1

965

462

898

454

866

452

1,113

83

161

89

140

11

1

10

11

17

30

45

48

635

1,700

747

2,069

47

24

35

7

2

0

10

0

5

1

4

0

10

2

12

2

5

1

4

2

4

1

3

0

13

1

11

10

59

6

67

10

89

15

110

11

20

3

6

0

1

1

2

1

6

0

1

0

111

4

155

9

Twiggs 1985 1986
Union 1985 1986

0

0

0

-

-

-

65

9

56

0

0

0

9

6

0

6

0

18

1

17

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

-

-

-

-

35

16

5

0

4

1

1

0

6

8

0

3

Table 41A
- COUNTY CRIME PROFILES, INDEX CRIMES, 1985-1986 Continued

County

Motor

Index Violent Property

Forcible

Aggravated

Vehicle

Crimes Crimes Crimes Murders Rapes Robberies Assault Burglaries Larcenies Thefts Arson

Upson 1985 1986

Walker 1985 1986
Walton 1985 1986
Ware 1985 1986
Warren 1985 1986
Washington 1985 1986
Wayne 1985 1986

Webster 1985 1986
Wheeler 1985 1986
White 1985 1986
Whitfield 1985 1986

Wilcox 1985 1986
Wilkes 1985 1986
Wilkinson 1985 1986
Worth 1985 1986
State Agency 1985 1986
Total 1985 1986

Source: Uniform Crime Repons Database, Georgia Crime Information Center

County
Appling 1985 1986
Atkinson 1985 1986
Bacon 1985 1986
Baker 1985 1986
Baldwin 1985 1986
Banks 1985 1986
Barrow 1985 1986

Table 41B
COUNTY CRWIE PROFILES, NON-INDEX CRIMES, 1985-1986

Other Narcotic

NON-INDEX Other Forgery1

Stolen

Weapons Prostitution1 Sex Drug

Crimes Assaults Counterfeit Fraud Embezzlement Property Vandalism Violation Comm. Vice Offense Laws

Ben Hill 1985 1986
Berrien 1985 1986
Bibb 1985 1986
Bleckley 1985 1986
Brantley 1985 1986
Brooks 1985 1986
Bryan 1985 1986
Bulloch 1985 1986

County
Appling 1985 1986
Atkinson 1985 1986
Bacon 1985 1986
Baker 1985 1986
Baldwin 1985 1986
Banks 1985 1986
Barrow 1985 1986
Bartow 1985 1986
Ben Hill 1985 1986
Berrien 1985 1986
Bibb 1985 1986
Bleckley 1985 1986
Brantley 1985 1986
Brooks 1985 1986
Bryan 1985 1986
Bulloch 1985 1986

Table 41B
COUNTY CRIME PROFILES, NON-INDEX CRIMES, 1985-1986

Family

Liquor

Public

Other Curfew1

Gambling Offense DUI Laws Drunkenness Disturbance Vagrancy Offense Loitering Runaway

Table 41B
COUNTY CRIME PROFILES, NON-INDEX CKIMES, 1985-1986 - Continued

County

Other Narcotic

NON-INDEX Other Forgery1

Stolen

Weapons Prostitution1 Sex Drug

Crimes Assaults Counterfeit Fraud Embezzlement Property Vandalism Violation Comm. Vice Offense Laws

Burke 1985 1986

Butts 1985 1986

Calhoun 1985 1986

Camden 1985 1986

Candler 1985 1986

Carroll 1985 1986

Catoosa 1985 1986

Charlton 1985 1986

Chatham 1985 1986

Chattahoochee 1985 1986

Chattooga 1985 1986

Cherokee 1985 1986

Clarke 1985 1986

Clay 1985 1986

Clayton 1985 1986

Clinch 1985 1986

Table 41B
COUNTY CRIME PROFILES, NON-INDEX CRIMES, 1985-1986 - Continued

County

Family

Liquor

Public

Other Curfew1

Gambling Offense DUI Laws Drunkenness Disturbance Vagrancy Offense Loitering Runaway

Burke 1985 1986
Butts 1985 1986
Calhoun 1985 1986
Camden 1985 1986
Candler 1985 1986
Carroll 1985 1986
Catoosa 1985 1986
Charlton 1985 1986
Chatham 1985 1986
Chattahoochee 1985 1986
Chattooga 1985 1986
Cherokee 1985 1986
Clarke 1985 1986
Clay 1985 1986
Clayton 1985 1986
Clinch 1985 1986

Table 41B
COUNTY CRIME PROFILES, NON-INDEX CRIMES, 1985-1986 - Continued

County

Other Narcotic

NON-INDEX Other Forgery1

Stolen

Weapons Prostitution1 Sex Drug

Crimes Assaults Counterfeit b u d Embezzlement Property Vandalism Violation Comm. Vice Offense Laws

Cobb 1985 1986
Coffee 1985 1986
Colquitt 1985 1986
Columbia 1985 1986
Cook 1985 1986
Coweta 1985 1986
Crawford 1985 1986
Crisp 1985 1986
Dade 1985 1986
Dawson 1985 1986
Decatur 1985 1986
DeKalb 1985 1986
Dodge 1985 1986
Dooly 1985 1986
Dougherty 1985 1986
Douglas 1985 1986

Table 41B
COUNTY CRIME PROFILES, NON-INDEX CRIMES, 1985-1986 - Continued

County

Family

Liquor

Public

Other Curfew1

Gambling Offense DUI Laws Drunkenness Disturbance Vagrancy Offense Loitering Runaway

Cobb 1985 1986
Coffee 1985 1986
Colquitt 1985 1986
Columbia 1985 1986
Cook 1985 1986
Coweta 1985 1986
Crawford 1985 1986
Crisp 1985 1986
Dade 1985 1986
Dawson 1985 1986
Decatur 1985 1986
DeKalb 1985 1986
Dodge 1985 1986
Dooly 1985 1986
Dougherty 1985 1986
Douglas 1985 1986

Table 41L
COUNTY CRIME PROFILES, NON-INDEX CRIMES, 1985-1986 - Con'tinued

County
Early 1985 1986
Echols 1985 1986
Effingham 1985 1986
Elbert 1985 1986
Ernanuel 1985 1986
Evans 1985 1986
Fannin 1985 1986
Fayette 1985 1986

Other Narcotic

NON-INDEX Other Forgery1

Stolen

Weapons Prostitution1 Sex Drug

Crimes Assaults Counterfeit Fraud Embezzlement Property Vandalism Violation Comm. Vice Offense Laws

Floyd 1985 1986
Forsyth 1985 1986
Franklin 1985 1986
Fulton 1985 1986
Gilmer 1985 1986
Glascock 1985 1986
Glynn 1985 1986
Gordon 1985 1986

Table 41B
COUNTY CRIME PROFILES, NON-INDEX CRIMES, 1985-1986 - Continued

County
Early 1985 1986
Echols 1985 1986
Effingham 1985 1986
Elbert 1985 1986
Emanuel 1985 1986
Evans 1985 1986
Fannin 1985 1986
Fayette 1985 1986
Floyd 1985 1986
Forsyth 1985 1986
Franklin 1985 1986
Fulton 1985 1986
Gilmer 1985 1986
Glascock 1985 1986
Glynn 1985 1986
Gordon 1985 1986

Family

Liquor

Public

Other Curfew1

Gambling Offense DUI Laws Drunkenness Disturbance Vagrancy Offense Loitering Runaway

Table 41B
COUNTY CRIME PROFILES, NON-INDEX CRIMES, 1985-1986 - Continued

County
Grady 1985 1986
Greene 1985 1986
Gwinnett 1985 1986
Habersham 1985 1986
Hall 1985 1986
Hancock 1985 1986
Haralson 1985 1986
Harris 1985 1986
Hart 1985 1986
Heard 1985 1986
Henry 1985 1986
Houston 1985 1986
Irwin 1985 1986
Jackson 1985 1986
Jasper 1985 1986
Jeff Davis 1985 1986

Other Narcotic

NON-INDEX Other Forgery1

Stolen

Weapons Prostitution1 Sex Drug

Crimes Assaults Counterfeit Fraud Embezzlement Property Vandalism Violation Comm. Vice Offense Laws

Table 41B
COUNTY CRIME PROFILES, NON-INDEX CRIMES, 1985-1986 - Continued

County
Grady 1985 1986
Greene 1985 1986
Gwinnett 1985 1986
Habersham 1985 1986
Hall 1985 1986
Hancock 1985 1986
Haralson 1985 1986
Harris 1985 1986
Hart 1985 1986
Heard 1985 1986
Henry 1985 1986
Houston 1985 1986
Irwin 1985 1986
Jackson 1985 1986
Jasper 1985 1986
Jeff Davis 1985 1986

Family

Liquor

Public

Other Curfew1

Gambling Offense DUI Laws Drunkenness Disturbance Vagrancy Offense Loitering Runaway

County
Jefferson 1985 1986
Jenkins 1985 1986
Johnson 1985 1986
Jones 1985 1986
Lamar 1985 1986
Lanier 1985 1986
Laurens 1985 1986
Lee 1985 1986
Liberty 1985 1986
Lincoln 1985 1986

Table 41B
COUNTY CRIME PROFILES, NON-INDEX CRIMES, 1985-1986 - Continued

Other Narcotic

NON-INDEX Other Forgery1

Stolen

Weapons Prostitution1 Sex Drug

Crimes Assaults Counterfeit Fraud Embezzlement Property Vandalism Violation Comm. Vice Offense Laws

319

12

3

6

0

3

48

0

0

3

16

98

9

11

4

0

3

35

0

0

2

6

207

20

9

14

0

3

44

0

0

2

12

225

19

42

5

0

2

40

0

0

2

45

47

4

1

11

7

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

3

0

0

2

9

0

0

0

0

1

128

2

0

3

1

0

22

0

0

1

5

91

8

0

4

2

0

53

0

0

0

5

428

50

16

28

0

0

72

0

0

11 22

261

47

14

20

2

1

79

0

0

8

24

262

27

2

2

0

1

40

0

0

6

9

118

23

0

2

0

1

46

0

0

5

6

852

159

24

29

11

0

250

0

0

20

21

865

145

24

38

6

2

357

0

0

21 21

72

8

0

47

12

5

1

0

0

1

2

5

5

0

0

4

2

6

0

0

1

3

2,615

472

41

154

45

3

404

0

2

44 142

2,024

549

43

121

43

1

333

0

1

32

57

121

10

1

7

2

1

18

0

0

2

18

110

13

1

24

3

0

19

0

0

0

15

Lowndes

1985

9,271

396

272

45

4

2

919

0

0

16 133

1986

7,843

464

273

59

5

2

857

0

0

13 124

McIntosh

1985

173

17

1

1

1

0

40

0

0

3

2

1986

80

8

5

3

0

1

22

0

0

1

8

Macon 1985 1986

225

20

8

2

2

0

65

0

0

3

0

170

28

2

3

1

1

62

0

0

1

2

County
Jefferson 1985 1986
Jenkins 1985 1986
Johnson 1985 1986
Jones 1985 1986
Lamar 1985 1986
Lanier 1985 1986
Laurens 1985 1986
Lee 1985 1986
Liberty 1985 1986
Lincoln 1985 1986

Table 41B
COUNTY CRIME PROFILES, NON-INDEX CRIMES, 1985-1986 - Continued

Family

Liquor

Public

Other Curfew1

Gambling Offense DUI Laws Drunkenness Disturbance Vagrancy Offense Loitering Runaway

Lowndes 1985 1986

McIntosh 1985 1986
Macon 1985 1986

Table 41B
COUNTY CRIME PROFILES, NON-INDEXCRIMES, 1985-1986 - Continued

County

Other Narcotic

NON-INDEX Other Forgery1

Stolen

Weapons Prostitution1 Sex Drug

Crimes Assaults Counterfeit Fraud Embezzlement Property Vandalism Violation Comm. Vice Offense Laws

Madison

1985

310

47

2

3

0

1

54

0

0

3

0

1986

252

78

0

1

1

0

109

0

0

5

0

Marion 1985 1986

23

0

1

58

13

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

18

0

0

1

8

Meriwether

1985

390

21

34

5

4

1

56

0

0

2 10

1986

20

0

0

0

5

0

6

0

0

0

3

Miller 1985 1986

194

9

0

5

0

0

25

0

0

0

0

39

0

0

0

0

0

7

0

0

0

1

Mitchell 1985 1986

729

87

24

11

4

0

130

0

0

11 25

52 1

57

33

11

1

2

108

0

0

11 41

Monroe 1985 1986

637

66

31

48

14

5

100

0

0

2

11

589

99

19

38

6

4

137

0

1

10 46

Montgomery

1985

63

0

0

1986

6

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

5

0

0

0

1

5

0

0

0

0

Morgan 1985 1986

69

5

1

2

0

0

27

0

0

1

1

52

5

6

3

0

0

35

0

0

0

0

Murray 1985 1986

735

65

12

105

1

4

86

0

0

17 58

418

60

28

111

0

3

75

0

0

2 23

Muscogee

1985

12,145 345

452

25 8

48

29

585

1986

12,949 379

382

25 1

56

37

294

0

148

88 880

0

108

100 558

Newton

1985

1,286

125

75

17

4

5

368

0

1

16 36

1986

987

176

93

25

9

2

378

0

1

15 32

Oconee 1985 1986

55

3

0

33

4

2

0

0

0

1

0

0

1

0

0

2

0

3

0

0

2

6

Oglethorpe

1985

125

1

0

1

2

0

26

0

0

0

11

1986

60

4

1

1

0

1

29

0

0

4

2

Paulding

1985

619

63

5

15

3

1

156

0

0

2 1 27

1986

48 1

6 1

17

5

2

1

203

0

1

14 19

Peach 1985 1986

43 1

95

23

10

4

1

64

0

0

4

7

194

38

5 1

12

3

2

42

0

0

1 14

Pickens 1985 1986

73

0

0

5 1

3

0

0

0

0

2

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

35

0

0

3

2

Table 41B
COUNTY CRIME PROFILES, NON-INDEX CRIMES, 1985-1986 - Continued

County
Madison 1985 1986
Marion 1985 1986
Meriwether 1985 1986
Miller 1985 1986
Mitchell 1985 1986
Monroe 1985 1986
Montgomery 1985 1986
Morgan 1985 1986
Murray 1985 1986
Muscogee 1985 1986
Newton 1985 1986
Oconee 1985 1986
Oglethorpe 1985 1986
Paulding 1985 1986
Peach 1985 1986
Pickens 1985 1986

Family

Liquor

Public

Other Curfew1

Gambling Offense DUI Laws Drunkenness Disturbance Vagrancy Offense Loitering Runaway

Table 41B
COUNTY CRIME PROFILES, NON-INDEX CRIMES, 1985-1986 - Continued

County
Pierce 1985 1986
Pike 1985 1986
Polk 1985 1986
Pulaski 1985 1986
Putnam 1985 1986
Quitman 1985 1986
Rabun 1985 1986
Randolph 1985 1986
Richmond 1985 1986
Rockdale 1985 1986
Schley 1985 1986
Screven 1985 1986
Seminole 1985 1986
Spalding 1985 1986
Stephens 1985 1986
Stewart 1985 1986

Other Narcotic

NON-INDEX Other Forgery1

Stolen

Weapons Prostitution1 Sex Drug

Crimes Assaults Counterfeit Fraud Embezzlement Property Vandalism Violation Comm. Vice Offense Laws

167

17

14

7

3

1

19

0

0

4

40

121

16

34

6

0

1

29

0

0

2

18

113

9

2

64

10

0

0

1

0

3

0

10

9

0

0

0

3

9

0

0

4

4

606

35

7

6

4

0

148

0

0

5

16

504

73

10

14

2

1

245

0

0

12 23

324

48

17

17

3

1

46

0

0

4

13

205

26

9

2 1

5

1

38

0

0

3

8

229

31

5

8

3

2

28

0

0

5

2

148

29

4

4

6

5

21

0

0

4

38

7

1

0

2

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

252

12

4

2

0

0

63

0

0

4

17

144

13

13

4

1

0

60

0

0

1

14

103

8

0

8

0

0

10

0

0

3

1

57

11

0

2

0

1

17

0

0

0

3

11,131 1,385

306

750

135

32

7,522 1,049

367

342

92

49

1,45 1 1,574

0

36

154 998

0

26

146 842

2,157

365

52

40

9

1

524

0

0

34

34

1,979

514

63

6 1

17

11

581

0

0

40

31

5 1

4

4

34

5

2

1

0

0

1

0

1

2

0

0

3

0

8

0

0

0

3

229

9

1

7

1

0

34

0

0

3

10

170

7

4

6

1

1

37

0

0

3

22

218

28

8

23

0

4

25

0

0

4

21

162

18

17

21

5

2

21

0

0

2

22

2,858

327

171

664

35

5

542

0

0

51 59

2,811

363

146

665

31

11

658

0

0

36 138

528

38

46

7

1

1

122

0

0

6

6

307

24

70

2 1

7

1

122

0

0

6

15

99

24

2

8

0

0

85

16

9

11

1

0

17

0

0

0

2

15

0

0

2

4

County
Pierce 1985 1986
Pike 1985 1986
Polk 1985 1986
Pulaski 1985 1986

Table 41B
COUNTY CRIME PROFILES, NON-INDEX CRIMES, 1985-1986 - Continued

Family

Liquor

Public

Other Curfew1

Gambling Offense DUI Laws Drunkenness Disturbance Vagrancy Offense Loitering Runaway

0

2

36

0

0

0

0

*

0

0

0

0

0

0

Quitman 1985 1986
Rabun 1985 1986
Randolph 1985 1986
Richmond 1985 1986
Rockdale 1985 1986
Schley 1985 1986
Screven 1985 1986
Seminole 1985 1986
Spalding 1985 1986
Stephens 1985 1986
Stewart 1985 1986

0

0

4

0

0

0

1

*

0

0

0

1

116

5

0

0

2

*

3

0

0

1

46

0

0

0

1

*

2

0

11

294 2,279

48

1

7

33

*

17

0

1

14

639

15

0

1

33

*

29

0

8

1

96

0

0

3

4

*

9

0

0

7

68

0

0

0

4

*

0

0

2

162

29 1

16

3

2

129

*

31

0

0

5

253

5

0

0

2

*

5

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

County
Sumter 1985 1986
Talbot 1985 1986
Taliaferro 1985 1986
Tattnall 1985 1986
Taylor 1985 1986
Telfair 1985 1986
Terrell 1985 1986
Thomas 1985 1986
Tift 1985 1986
Toombs 1985 1986
Towns 1985 1986
Treutlen 1985 1986
Troup 1985 1986
nrer 1985 1986
'higgs 1985 1986
Union 1985 1986

Table 41B
COUNTY CRIME PROFILES, NON-INDEX CRIMES, 1985-1986 - Continued

Other Narcotic

NON-INDEX Other Forgery1

Stolen

Weapons Prostitution1 Sex Drug

Crimes Assaults Counterfeit Fraud Embezzlement Property Vandalism Violation Comm. Vice Offense Laws

County
Sumter 1985 1986
Talbot 1985 1986
Taliaferm 1985 1986
Tattnall 1985 1986
Taylor 1985 1986
Telfair 1985 1986
Terrell 1985 1986
Thomas 1985 1986
Tift 1985 1986
Tmmbs 1985 1986
Towns 1985 1986
Treutlen 1985 1986
Troup 1985 1986
Turner 1985 1986
nKiggs 1985 1986
Union 1985 1986

Table 4lI3
COUNTY CRIME PROFILES, NON-INDEX CRIMES, 1985-1986 - Continued

Family

Liquor

Public

Other Curfew1

Gambling Offense DUI Laws Drunkenness Disturbance Vagrancy Offense Loitering Runaway

Table 41B
COUNTY CRIME PROFILES, NON-INDEX CRIMES, 1985-1986 - Continued

County

Other Nnrcdie

NON-INDEX Other Forgery1

Stolen

Weapons Prostitution1 Sex Drug

Crimes Assaults Counterfeit Fraud Embezzlement Property Vandalism Violation Comm. Vice Ofllense Laws

Upson 1985 1986
Walker 1985 1986
Walton 1985 1986
Ware 1985 1986
Warren 1985 1986
Washington 1985 1986
Wayne 1985 1986
Webster 1985 1986
Wheeler 1985 1986
White 1985 1986
Whitfield 1985 1986
Wilcox 1985 1986
Wilkes 1985 1986
Wilkinson 1985 1986
worth 1985 1986
State Agency 1985 1986

Total 1985 1986

282,549 31,751 240,003 35,600

'1986 DU1 data unavailable as of publish date.

Source: Georgia Crime Inhmation Center

County

Table 41B
COUNTY CRIME PROFILES, NON-INDEX CRIMES, 1985-1986 - Continued

Family

Liquor

Public

Other Curfew1

Gambling Wense DUI Laws Drunkenness Disturbance Vagrancy Offense Loitering Runaway

Walker 1985 1986
Walton 1985 1986
Ware 1985 1986
Warren 1985 1986
Washington 1985 1986
Wayne 1985 1986
Webster 1985 1986
Wheeler 1985 1986
White 1985 1986
Whitfield 1985 1986
Wilcox 1985 1986
Wikes 1985 1986
Wilkinson 1985 1986
Worth 1985 1986
State Agency 1985 1986

0

11

0

20

0

4

0

0

0

11

0

18

0

0

0

0

0

34

0

23

0

9

0

3

0

0

0

1

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

1

1

78

1

6 1

0

3

0

0

0

21

0

15

0

1

0

1

0

0

0

0

10

2 1

15

26

Total 1985 1986

344

3,375

293

3,230

'1986 DUI data unavailable as of pblish date.

Source:Georgia Criw Information Center

LAW ENFORCEMENT EMPLOYEES
Profiles of the current law enforcement employee workforce are based on reports submitted tc the Georgia Crime Information Center at the end of 1986. County totals are based upon a compilation of the submitting agencies' employment figures.

COUNTY RANKINGS
For comparativepurposes, a law enforcement employee rate (employees per 100,000 persons) was calculated. Camden County topped the rankings with 449 employees per 100,000 persons, well above the state average of 228. Care should be exercised in making detailed comparisons; still these figures may be useful in making general manpower assessments.
Note: The sworn officer totals provided in Table 42 are not equal to the totals in the Introduction to this section because they are derived from different source documents.

County
Appling Atkinson Bacon Baker Baldwin Banks Barrow Bartow Ben Hill Berrien Bibb Bleckley Brantley Brooks Bryan Bulloch Burke Butts Calhoun Camden Candler Carroll Catoosa Charlton Chatham Chattahoochee Chattooga Cherokee Clarke Clay Clayton Clinch Cobb Coffee Colquitt Columbia Cook Coweta Crawford Crisp Dade Dawson Decatur DeKalb Dodge Dooly Dougherty Douglas Early Echols Effingham Elbert Emanuel

Table 42
FULL TIME LAW ENFORCEMENT EMPWYEES, 1986

Sworn Officers Male Female

Civilian Male Female

Total Male Female

Grand Total

Employees Per 100,000 Persons

County
Evans Fannin Fayette Floyd Forsyth Franklin Fulton Gilmer Glascock Glynn Gordon Grady Greene Gwinnett Habersham Hall Hancock Haralson Harris Hart Heard
Henry Houstw Irwin Jackson Jasper Jeff Davis Jefferson Jenkins Johnson Jones Lamar Lanier Laurens Lee Liberty Lincoln
Long Lowndes Lumpkin McDuffie McIntosh Macon Madison Marion Meriwether Miller Mitchell Monroe Montgomery Morgan Murray Muscogee Newton

Table 42
FULL TIME LAW ENFORCEMENT EMPLOYEES, 1986-Continued

Sworn Officers Male Female

Civilian Male Female

Total Male Female

Grand Total

Employees Per lOO,OOO Persons

County

Table 42

FULL TIME LAW ENFORCEMENT EMPLOYEES, 1986-Continued

--

Sworn Officers

Civilian

Total

Grand

Male Female

Male Female

Male Female

Total

Oconee Oglethorpe Paulding Peach Pickens Pierce Pike Polk Pulaski Putnam Quitman Rabun Randolph Richmond Rockdale Schley Screven Seminole Spalding Stephens Stewart Sumter Talbot Taliaferro Tattnall Taylor Telfair Terrell Thomas Ti ft (~oombs Towns Treutlen Troup Turner Twiggs Union Upson Walker Walton Ware Warren Washington Wayne Webster Wheeler White Whitfield Wilcox Wilkes Wilkinson Worth State Agency Total

Source: Georgia Crime Information Center; Office of Planning and Budget NR represents those counties that did not report.

103

Employees Per lO@,POO Persons

County
Camden Clarke Putnam Fulton Muscogee Clay Bibb Webster Calhoun Bulloch Peach Cobb Sumter Dawson Jasper Dougherty Glynn Miller Hall Crisp Lowndes McIntosh Stewart Ben Hill Decatur Terrell Spalding Wilkes Rockdale Bartow Butts
Long Walton Richmond Berrien Clinch Cook Upson Haralson Evans Colquitt Bacon Elbert Gordon Polk Seminole 'lhmer Heard Franklin Whitfield
Bryan Candler Pulaski

Table 43

RANKING OF COUNTIES BY FULL TIME LAW ENFORCEMENT

EMPLOYEES PER 100,000 PERSONS, 1986

-

Law Enforcement Employees

Law Enforcement Employees

Law Enforcement Employees

Per lOO,OOO Persons

County

Per lO0,OOO Person

County

Per lOO,OOO Persons

Toombs Coweta Irwin Taylor Brooks Meriwether Douglas Greene Rabun Grady Wilkinson White Hancock Atkinson Tattnall Chattooga Emanuel Morgan Stephens Telfair Pickens worth Catoosa Gwinnett Schley Walker Clayton Floyd Lamar Effingham Troup Carrroll Taliaferro Murray Baker Habersham Pierce Talbot Cherokee Forsyth Treutlen Coffee Washington Lanier Harris Laurens Gilmer Jefferson Paulding Pike Early Mitchell Newton

Screven Baldwin Marion Chatham Brantley Fannin Oglethorpe Liberty Bleckley Hart Jeff Davis Jenkins Ware Thomas Warren Barrow Wayne Lee Quitman Madison Twiggs Dekalb Johnson Jackson Union Fayette Henry Charlton Macon Dooly Glascock Lincoln Columbia Dade Towns Craw ford Houston Randolph Montgomery Jones Burke Oconee Chattahoochee Wilcox Wheeler Ti ft Monroe McDuffie Lumpkin Echols Dodge Banks Appling

Source: Office of Planning and Budget Population Estimates; Georgia Crime Information Center

IN MEMORIAM
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation joins the criminal justice community of the State of Georgia in extending sincere sympathy to the families of the following law enforcement officers who gave their
lives while protecting and serving the citizens of their communities during 1986.
HARVEY JAMES ADAMS, OFFICER Marietta Police Department
Murdered with a .22 caliber rifle while working an undercover assignment involving a drug investigation.
ROBERT GERALD BRIDGES, LIEUTENANT Clayton County Sheriff's Ofice
Accidentally shot by another officer during a special enforcement training exercise.
SAM GRAY BULLOCH 111, TRAFFIC OFFICER LaGrange Police Department
killed in a collision while in route to a traffic accident.
CLEVELAND RAY CHRISTIAN, CORPORAL Brunswick Police Department
Killed in a traffic accident while riding a motorcycle to perform his duty.
DANNY STEPHEN RAY, JR., DEPUTY SHERIFF Houston County Sheriff's W c e
Slain by a .38 caliber Smith & Wesson while trying to apprehend a trustee.
JOHN HALL ROWE, JR., DEPUTY SHERIFF
Lowndes County Sheriff's Wee
Struck and killed by a tractorltrailer.

OFFICERS KILLED AND ASSAULTED
Statistics compiled in Table 44 are taken from reports submitted to the Georgia Crime Information Center by law enforcement agencies.
The most serious assaults committed against officers resulted in 16 deaths over the period 1982-1986. The five year trend indicates an increase in the first three years, a small decrease in 1985 and the largest increase reported in 1986.
Yearly changes in the total number of officers assaulted showed a decline from 1982 to 1983. This decrease is more evident when types of activities are examined. Traffic Pursuits and Other Stops is the only type of activity that

shows an increase. Assaults upon police officers increased slightly from 1,093 in 1985 to 1,112 in 1986.
Another area of interest is the type of weapon used during assaults. In contrast to the weapon types most frequently used in the commission of aggravated assaults (cutting tools, firearms, other weapons; Figure 6B), officers are most frequently assaulted by hands, fists or feet.
The number of personal injuries sustained by law enforcement personnel during assaults over the five year period between 1982-1986has decreased. Most of the injuries were sustained between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.

Table 44
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS KILLED AND ASSAULTED, 1982-1986

Total number of officers killed

1982 0

1983 1

1984 5

1985 4

Officers assaulted

Type of activity Attempting other arrests Responding to disturbance calls Traffic pursuits and other stops Handling, transporting and custody All others
Yearly total

Type of weapon Firearm Knife or cutting instrument Other dangerous weapons Hands, fist or feet
Yearly total

Injury Officers with personal injuries Officers without personal injuries
Yearly total

Type of assignment Alone Assisted

Yearly total

Time of assaults Daytime (6:00 a.m76:00 p.m.) Nighttime (6:00 p.mF6:00 a.m.)
Yearlytotal
Total number cleared

Source: Georgia Crime Information Center

464 220
82 108 407
1,281 3 82 899
1,281 1,255

344 189 123 93 340
1,089 326 763
1,089 1,050

35 1 213 68 144 325
1,101 329 772
1,101 1,051

334 203
85 141 330
1,093 278 815
1,093 1,011

1986 6
357 20 1 11 1 107 336
1,112 286 826
1,112 1,027

Figure 22A
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS KILLED
YEAR
U OFFICERS KILtED Figure 22B
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS ASSAULTED
YEAR OFFICERS ASSAULTED

PROFILE OF TRAFFIC FATALITIES
Comprehensive data on traffic fatalities are available from the Georgia Department of Public Safety Accident Reporting data base. Figures from that database indicate that in 1986 more traffic fatalities occurred than in any of the previous five years. Total fatalities increasedby 180over 1985 figures, while DUI related fatalities increased by 115.
The effects of alcohol use while driving has received much media attention in the past two years. Tables 45 and 46 provide data on fatal accidents and fatalities caused by DUI (blood alcohol content of .10 or greater).

Additional data are provided for fatalities by month, location and type (Table 47) and holiday traffic deaths in 1985 and 1986 (Table 48). Holiday traffic deaths normally account for a large proportion of deaths on our highways. In 1986, Thanksgiving was the most costly with a total of 25 fatalities in 102 hours.

Figure 23
TRAFFIC FATALITIES

Figure 24
TRAFFIC FATALITIES BY MONTH
1986 170

UN

YllD APB MAY JUN NL AUO SIP OCT NOV DIC

Table 45
FATAL ACCIDENTS* INVOLVING DUI, 1982 - 1986

Total Fatal Accidents DUI Related Fatal Accidents % of Fatal Accidents - DUI Related

1,097 402 36.6%

1,157 399 34.5%

1,260 452 35.9%

*Accidents involving driver, passengers, pedestrians, pedalcylist with Blood Alcohol Content PAC) level of .10 or above. Source: Department of Public Safety

1,224 369 30.1 %

1,387 478 34.5%

Table 46
FATALITIES* INVOLVING DUI, 1982 - 1986

Total Fatalities DUI Related Fatalities % of Fatalities - DUI Related

1,229 463 37.7%

1,296 454 35.0%

1,410 515 36.5%

1,362 424 31.1%

m e actual number of persons killed in accidents involving the driver, passengers, pedestrians, pedalcylist with Blood Alcohol Content PAC) level of .lo or above. Source: Department of Public Safety

1,542 539 35.0%

Month

Table 47
TRAFFIC FATALITIES BY MONTH, LOCATION, & TYPE

Rural

Urban

Total

Pedestrian Motorcycle Other Vehicles

Total

January February March April
May June July August September October November December

Total

1,044 1,164 318

Source: w e n t of Public Safety

378 1,362 1,542

199 221

80

80

1,083 1,241

1,362 1,542

Holiday

Table 48
HOLIDAY TRAFFIC TOLL, 1985 - 1986

Accidents

Injuries

Fatalities

Memorial Day Fourth of July Labor Day Thanksgiving Christmas New Years

1,250 2,405 1,522 2,731
376 893

Total

9,177

1985 - One fatality every 5.3 holiday hours
1986 - One fatality every 5.1 holiday hours Source: Department of Public Safety

1,665 1,500 1,903 2,717 1,283 1,055
10,123

479 798 513 892 129 301
3,112

705 550 714 90 1 419 392
3,681

14

13

24

10

12

24

15

25

9

6

6

9

80

87

Hours

78

78

102

78

78

78

102

102

30

54

30

54

420

444

GEORGIA BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation was created in 1937. The initial charter authorized the establishment of a State Bureau of Identification to maintain fingerprint and criminal history information and the employment of individuals trained as criminal investigators to assist local law enforcement officers throughout the State. Today the GBI provides a wide variety of law enforcement services statewide, with sufficient flexibility to adapt to changing crime patterns and needs of the law enforcement community in this State and neighboring states.
The GBI has four operating divisions:
INVESTIGATIVE DMSON
This Division is charged with conducting investigations upon request of Superior Court Judges, District Attorneys, Chiefs of Fblice, Sheriffs,or at the direction of the Governor into violations of State laws. The Division is heavily involved in the investigation of drug traffic and organized crime, as well as its work with local law enforcement agencies in the investigationof traditional crimes, such as robbery, burglary, homicide, etc. The Division is headed by a GBI Deputy Director and is divided into three main sections; Special Operations, consisting of special squads based in Atlanta, Field Operations, consisting of 13 regional offices, and the statewide Drug Enforcement Section which, among other functions, operates four Regional Drug Enforcement Offices.
GEORGIA CRIME INFORMATION CENTER
The Georgia Crime Information Center maintains a computerized repository of criminal history information, and operates the statewide communications network used by criminal justice agencies throughout the state and is the interface with the National Crime Information Center. Reports of all criminal investigations and reported crimes are forwarded to the Georgia Crime Information Center. GCIC computers enable law enforcement agencies to check for criminal reports on suspects, check for stolen items, such as guns, equipment, motor vehicles, etc., and to transmit lookouts and other important messages from agency to agency or to all agencies quickly.
GCIC assists both state and local law enforcement agencies in ongoing criminal investigations by developingsuspect lists through access to computerized criminaljustice data.
GCIC will soon have an Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS). AFIS technology will permit experts to search single latent fingerprints found at crime scenes against the master fingerprint file which contains all fingerprint and criminal history information for known criminal offenders in Georgia.
DIVISION OF FORENSIC SCIENCES
The Division of Forensic Sciences furnishes forensic support for all law enforcement agencies, including drug identification, firearm identification, criminalistics, toxicology, etc. The Division has branch laboratories in Augusta, Macon, Columbus, Savannah, and Moultrie. The Division Director is also the Chief Medical Examiner for the State. Reports of post-mortem examinations of persons who die outside a physician's care are processed through the Division of Forensic Sciences.
ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION
The Administrative Division furnishes financial, logistic and personnel support services for the entire Bureau.

Table 49
GEORGIA BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
- PRODUCTIVITY DATA 1986

INVESTIGATIVE DIVISION

Criminal Investigations Assistance Rendered Cases Total Cases Polygraph Examinations
Conducted

5,676 3,497 9,173
2,943

Felony Arrests Value of Stolen
Property Recovered

5,139 $4,247,749

GEORGIA CRIME INFORMATION CENTER

Audits Completed Fingerprint Cards Processed Fingerprints Identified Individuals Added to Master File

176 315,773 134,918 92,749

Criminal History Records

Disseminated

130,986

Computerized Investigative Support:

Cases Completed

167

Reports Generated

265

Statistical Assistance Projects:

Projects Completed

108

Reports Generated

387

Training Hours Presented

625

Personnel Trained

2,824

Technical Assistance Projects

4,723

UCR Reports Processed

745,999

CJIS Network Messages

Processed

40,042,074

DIVISION OF FORENSIC SCIENCES
Number of Cases:
Atlanta Savannah Columbus Augusta Moultrie Macon
Total
Court Appearances Hours reported
Crime Scene Processed Hours reported
Qpes of Cases:
Pathology Handwriting Criminalistics Serology Drug ID Toxicology Latent Prints Implied Consent Non-Lab

Number of Autopsies Performed:

Source: Georgia Bureau of Investigation

11 COURTS

INTRODUCTION
The judicial powers of the State of Georgia are vested exclusively in seven classes of courts: magistrate, probate, juvenile, state, superior, the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court. The magistrate, probate, juvenile and state courts are courts of limited jurisdiction. Additionally, the Constitution provides that the General Assembly may establish or authorizethe establishment of municipal courts which have jurisdiction over ordinance violations and other offenses as may be provided by law. The courts of Georgia comprise a unified judicial system.
Superior Courts
The superior court is Georgia's court of general jurisdiction, having exclusive jurisdiction over felony cases and cases involving divorce, equity and questions of land title. With the exception of certain probate and juvenile matters, the superior courts exercise concurrent jurisdiction in other cases with the limited jurisdiction courts located in the same county or circuit. Each of the state's 159 counties has a superior court, such courts being organized by single or multiple county judicial circuits. Currently there are 131 superior court judges serving in 45 circuitsdivided into ten administrativedistricts, with an Administrative Judge and Court Administrator for each. Prosecution of cases before a superior court is conducted by a District Attorney elected on a circuit-widebasis.
State Courts
State courts exercise jurisdiction over trials of misdemeanor criminal cases and have general civil jurisdiction wer the trial of all general civil actions, regardless of the amount claimed, unless exclusivejurisdiction is vested in the superior courts. The state courts' jurisdiction also includes hearing applications for and issuing search and arrest warrants, holding courts of inquiry and punishing contempts by fine and/or imprisonment. At the end of Fiscal Year 1985,63state courts operated in 64 counties (Cherokee and Forsyth counties are served by one court). Of the 79 judges presiding, 31 were full time state court judges and 48 served part time. Prosecution of cases before a state court is conducted by a Solicitor elected on a county-wide basis.
Probate Courts
The probate courts exercisejurisdiction in the probate of wills, administration of estates, appointment of guardians and the involuntary hospitalization of incapacitated adults and other dependent individuals. Other duties for which the probate judges may be responsible, depending on the particular county, include holding habeas corpus hearings, acting as a court of inquiry, hearing traffic cases and trying violations of state game and fish laws. There are 159 probate judges, each serving a single county.

Juvenile Courts
Juvenile courts have exclusive original jurisdiction in cases involving delinquent children alleged to have committed noncapital offenses, unruly children under the age of 17, deprived children under the age of 18, and juvenile traffic offenders under the age of 16. With the exception of the juvenile court judge in Floyd County, who is an elected official, juvenile court judges are generally appointed for six year terms by their counties' superior court judges. At the end of Fiscal Year 1985, there were 10 full-time juvenile court judges and 41 parttime judges serving the state's 159 counties having separate juvenile courts. Where no separate juvenile court has been established, a judge of the superior court serves as judge of the juvenile court.
Magistrate Courts
The 1983 Constitution of the State of Georgia established magistrate courts to replace justice of the peace courts and small claims courts. A magistrate court exists in each county of the state and serves as a court of limited jurisdiction. They serve as courts of inquiry, may issue arrest and search warrants, try violations of county ordinances, punish for contempt, and grant bail in all cases where the granting of bail is not exclusively committed to some other court or officer.
Court of Appeals
The Court of Appeals has appellatejurisdiction in all cases where exclusivejurisdiction does not rest with the Supreme Court. The Court of Appeals is composed of nine judges and is divided into three panels of three judges each. The Court of Appeals is authorized to correct errors in cases on appeal except where the Supreme Court has exclusive jurisdiction. Examples of cases appealable to the Court of Appeals include claims for damages, criminal cases other than capital felonies, and compensation and insurance claims. Caseload data are collectedby the Court on an annual basis and includenumbers of cases docketed; however, the numbers do not provide data on specific criminal appeals.
Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of Georgia has seven justices, who elect one of their number to be the Chief Justice. The Supreme Court is the final court of review in the State and has exclusive appellate jurisdiction in constitutional questions and contests. It has appellate jurisdiction in all habeas corpus cases, and all cases in which a sentence of death was imposed or could be imposed. It also has jurisdiction over a variety of civil matters.

Courts Data
The Administrative Office of the Courts, the arm of the Supreme Court and the Judicial Council of Georgia, collects, processes and maintains caseload information on the principal courts of the state. The data are critical in making decisions concerning the creation of judgeships and the boundaries of existingjudicial circuits. Caseload data are collected by the Administrative Office of the Courts for the superior, state, probate and juvenile courts. Prosecutorial data are not

available for the principal courts. Caseload data are not yet available for the magistrate courts. The Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals collect their own caseload data. With few exceptions, data collected and compiled for the courts reflect only workload factors and do not readily allow qualitative analysis of the functions of the courts. Note: In 1985 AOC began compiling statistics according to calendar year, some tables reflect this change.

Figure 25
Georgia Judicial Administrative Districts

JUDICIAL COUNCIL OF GEORGIA

Georgia
- Judicial Districts CIRCUIT BOUNDARY

COUNTY EOUNDARV

-

0. ...m
rnll..

supodor Courts

Figure 26

Filings

- -

Table 50

CY 1985 Superior Court Caseload (Docket entries)

Circuit
Alapaha Alcovy Appalachian
Atlanta Atlantic Augusta
Blue Ridge Brunswick Chattahoochee
Cherokee Clayton Cobb
Conasauga Cordele Coweta
Dougherty Douglas Dublin
Eastern Flint Griffin
Gwinnett Houston Lookout Mountain
Macon Middle Mountain
Northeastern Northern Ocmulgee
Oconee Ogeechee Pataula
Piedmont Rockdale Rome
Southern South Georgia Southwestern
Stone Mountain Tallapoosa Tifton
Toom bs Waycross Western

Total Criminal Filed Disposed

2,744 1,521
955

2,912 1,315
838

5,530 1,879 1,343

8,314 1,799 1,532

479 1,836 2,177

432 1,680 2,478

1,435 1,240 2,455

1,547 1,187 2,480

1,131 1,001 1,053

1,196 1,133 1,040

745 1,083 1,184

91 3 1,040 1,496

1,389 87 1
1,561

1,431 796
1,512

1,270 447
2,253

1,219 456
2,108

1,381 642 653

1,306 667 61 3

1,492 1,031 2,553

1,225 1,183 2,422

880

771

509

546

1,046

988

1,104 751
1,710

1,099 553
1,718

1,049 596 738

1,163 598 658

2,783 1,391
786

2,577 1,370
848

1,865 983 573

1,762 1,071
549

TOTAL AVERAGE PER JUDGE*

62,098 474

64,541 493

*Based on 131 superior court judges.

Felony Filed Disposed

799

937

573

537

224

188

5,504 58 1 932

8,254 602
1,070

465 1,134 1,368

41 8 983 1,714

551 1,123 2,005

643 1,090 1,967

435

42 1

407

441

798

790

745

91 2

372

335

283

432

1,261 378 847

1,302 326 753

1,236 386 760

1,186 396 801

1,167 629 403

1,054 655 337

590 453 1,151

361 525 1,046

408

362

502

538

438

430

343

354

331

230

543

542

892

955

51 1

51 8

508

455

2,782 422 472

2,576 426 506

290

280

609

642

535

51 2

37,146 284

39,802 304

Misdemeanor Filed Disposed

1,390 830 604

1,360 687 509

26

60

93

54

309

345

7

7

299

21 3

586

549

757

774

104

88

229

240

399

537

493

582

202

195

0

1

559

568

836

91 9

102

99

408

388

550

568

18

18

60

60

980

923

176

206

7

7

196

225

377 552 1,269

347 625 1,246

449

385

7

8

539

508

365 41 4 1,080

330 323 1,101

155

207

82

75

183

159

1

1

601

561

296

32 1

1,004

939

358

407

31

32

17,983 137

17,757 136

Traffic Filed Disposed

555

61 5

118

91

127

141

0 1,205
102

0 1,143
117

7

7

403

484

223

21 5

127

130

13

9

221

273

297

238

101

110

53

55

0

0

152

137

65

145

26

30

85

82

164

191

16

15

1

0

51 3

384

38

46

6

5

54

51

525

51 7

26

33

133

130

23

24

0

0

69

50

396

41 5

6

0

87

75

2

1

3

5

47

44

0

0

368

383

18

2 1

57 1

543

16

22

7

5

6,969 53

6,982 53

Table 50

CY 1985 Superior Court Caseload (Docket entries)

Total Civil Filed Disposed

1,223 2,440 1,206

1,025 2,953
81 5

1 1,195 2,898 7,132

1 1,202 2,494 5,290

1,932 3,403 5,637

1,636 2,942 7,558

2,838 3,128 7,695

2,701 2,979 7,414

2,638 1,581 4,120

1,998 1,683 3,336

1,725 2,682 1,988

1,259 1,952 2,181

4,227 2,248 2,747

3,959 1,842 2,444

5,604 1,708 3,281

5,037 1,185 3,158

4,063 2,629 1,592

3,036 2,149 1,337

2,561 1,803 3,299

1,706 2,090 3,168

1,346 1,652 1,326

1,312 1,831 1,160

1,744 1,305 2,631

1,995 2,468 2,873

3,616 1,951 2,034

3,959 1,664 1,689

10,987 3,127 2,160

8,682 3,143 1,419

1,072 2,656 1,973

935 2,617 1,919

140,803 1 30,195

1,075

994

General Civil
Filed Disposed

286

291

778

839

502

293

3,871 674
1,097

4,098 61 9 724

394

299

925

829

929

1,164

952 61 2 1,208

903 495 1,268

1,065

762

596

598

1,162

868

239

78

1,214

831

868

936

1,409 966 882

1,067 751 673

1,165

947

281

1 66

726

697

958

647

882

697

431

329

697 547 1,239

41 5 695 1,226

545

540

505

538

95

77

546

688

81 1

1,083

680

908

725

852

21 8

207

762

526

1,669 1,083
245

1,621 1,060
226

277

253

823

738

692

597

37,231 34,119

284

260

Domestic Relations Filed Disposed

560

442

946

1,280

351

287

5,267 1,731 4,426

5,202 1,422 3,279

901 1,667 3,578

81 7 1,557 5,156

995 2,045 5,140

1,040 2,044 5,028

1,281 704
2,070

91 3 81 3 1,784

1,051

848

927

722

851

953

1,753 777
1.197

1,984 696
1,093

2,905 963
1,840

2,797 704
1,852

2,354 1,523
71 0

1,833 1,227
630

1,199 777
1,372

820 91 7 1,287

580

524

828

863

681

544

760 422 1,055

933 92 1 1,165

1,797 1,062
872

1,644 886 761

6,223 1,135 1,056

5,755 1,226
742

499 1,312
875

407 1,360
91 3

71.01 8 542

68,071 520

Independent Motions
Filed Disposed

377

292

71 6

834

353

235

2,057 493
1,609

1,902 453
1,287

637 81 1 1,130

520 556 1,238

891 471 1,347

758 440 1,118

292

323

281

272

888

684

435

333

541

399

269

292

1,065

908

505

395

668

678

1,534 464 71 5

1,293 31 5 609

751

556

224

225

451

378

665

471

479

478

688

655

221

248

31 9

430

550

539

438

374

72

464

896

800

1,094 671 400

1,463 57 1 402

3,095 909 859

1,306 857 451

296

275

52 1

51 9

406

409

32,554 28,005

249

214

Total
Caseload Filed Disposed

3,967 3,937

3,961 2,161

4,268 1,653

16,725 4,777 8,475

19,516 4,293 6,822

2,411 5,239 7,814

2,068 4,622 10,036

4.273 4,368 10,150

4,248 4,166 9,894

3,769 2,582 5.1 73

3.194 2,816 4,376

2,470 3,765 3,172

2,172 2,992 3,677

5,616 3,119 4,308

5,390 2,638 3,956

6,874 2.1 55 5,534

6,256 1,641 5,266

5,444 3,271 2,245

4,342 2,816 1,950

4,053 2,834 5,852

2,931 3,273 5,590

2,226 2,161 2,372

2,083 2,377 2,148

2,848 2,056 4,341

3,094 3,021 4,591

4,665 2,547 2,772

5,122 2,262 2,347

13,770 4,518 2,946

1 1,259 4,513 2,267

2,937 3,639 2,546

2,697 3,688 2,468

202,901 194,736 1,549 1,487

Total Open Caseload
1,516 2,442 1,501
9,917 2.345 8,935
1,339 4,864 2,802
3,086 2,796 5,604
2,356 1 .I 77 4,407
2,024 3,193 1,981
4,460 2,803 3,029
2,786 1,973 3,929
2,832 2,607 1,006
2,071 2,055 3,366
985 1,475 1,490
2,047 2,248 3,789
2,690 1,585 1,405
10,721 3,569 2,068
1,831 2,081 1,555
134,741 1,029

State Courts
5-year trend: total filings/dispositions

FY '82

Figure 27

FY '83

FY '84

FY '85

CY '85

Disposition data unavailable for FY '83.
- ** Revised totals based on supplementarydata
Filings Dispositions

Table 51

CY 1985 State Court Caseload (Docket entries)

Misdemeanor Filed Disposed

Traffic Filed Disposed

General Civil Filed Disposed

' Independent Motions Filed Disposed

Total Caseload Filed Disposed

Appling Baldwin Bibb

601 1,678 3,937

400 1,678 3,694

966 1,642 3,113

1,024 1.642 3,025

26

2 1

0

0

701

525

4

2

1,597

1,447

0

0

3,320

3,320

139

99

7,890

7,343

Bryan

183

173

1,527

1,723

88

65

20

11

1,818

1,972

Bulloch

1,638 1,505

5,058 4,714

76

48

66

64

6,838

6,331

7 370

370

2,702

2,702

75

47

54

45

3,201

3,164

Candler Carroll Chatham

147 840 1,431

134 1,660 1,447

2,171 5,674 1,331

1,986 5,037 1,403

0 499 2,426

0 460 2,426

0 165 1,526

0 96 1,516

2,318 7,178 6,714

2,120 7,253 6,792

Chattooga Cherokee Clarke
Clayton Clinch Cobb Coffee Colquitt Coweta

514 2,025 1,213
11,114 280
6,037 1,050 1,003
919

51 2 1,512
597
11,114 280
5,404 706 934 967

2,559 7,148 3,786
12,771 651
41,705 2.1 02 1,775 5,664

2,374 5,998 3,166
12,771 651
41,163 1,806 1,803 5,011

20 61 4 282
3,291 4
8,081 61 50
316

10 478 192
2,461 14
5,732 52 39
205

10 137 118 2,323
2 11,834
23 20 73

8 47 104 1,447
2 10.801
29 9
25

3,103 9,924 5,399 29,499
937 67,657
3,236 2,848 6,972

2,904 8,035 4,059 27,793
947 63,100
2,593 2,785 6,208

Decatur DeKalb Dougherty

573 4,595 3,788

544 9,353 4,231

1,903 281
4,911

1,933 263
5,662

2 17,313
2,189

12 12,358
1,810

84 7,297 2,983

92 2,547 2,408

2,562 34,486 13,871

2,581 24,521 14,111

Early Effingharn Elbert

221

233

166

127

1,007

882

1.202 1,337
870

1.361 1,299
869

0

2

108

118

22

16

34

32

1,457

1,628

22

23

1,633

1,567

3

1

1,902

1,768

Emanuel Evans Forsyth

1,022 128
1,482

74 1 124 1.332

3,895 99 1
3,347

2,91 1 990
2,986

48

32

45

14

333

198

35

14

5,000

3,698

39

18

1,203

1,146

77

29

5,239

4,545

Fulton Glynn Grady

14,492 1,211 488

14,803* 722 445

4,515 8,854 1,524

8,722* 9,693 1.550

24.585 812 23

26,444 1,082 15

75,176 785 8

70,200 748 3

1 18,768 1 1,662 2,043

120,169 12,245 2,013

Gwinnett Habersham Hall

2,566 61 6
3,252

2,551 464
2,893

1,290 1,224 8,378

1,102

4,130

920

74

7.279 __ 325

2,613 77
164

1,083

651

19

23

92

60

9,069 1,933 12,047

6,917 1,484 10,396

Houston Jackson Jeff Davis

3,684 614 5R0

2.683 51 2 386

7,057 7,436 1,491

6,369 6.227 _ 1,402

1,163

94 1

15

18

18

18

594

219

12,498 10,212

8

8

8,073

6,765

11

10

2,100

1,816

Jefferson Jenkins Liberty

61 1 227 1,384

598 207 1,293

2,189 930
1.323 _

2,181 930
1,301-

30

34

66

79

101

61

23

16

2,853

2,829

14

5

1,237

1,221

24

10

2,832

2,665

Long Lowndes Macon Miller Mitchell Muscogee
Pierce Putnarn Richmond

0 2,682
240 199 651 2.591 -
267 264 7,091

0 2,818
194 189 588 1.510
223 264 4,986

967 10,247
733 776 1,103 2,316
677 782 12,371

967 10,411
660737 1,103 1,499
689 782 10,398

15

11

253

161

18

20

3

3

0

0

61 4

424

13

10

0

0

434

309

3

2

985

980

17

13

13,199 13,403

9

9

1,000

883

3

3

98 1

932

0

0

1,754

1,691

42

30

5,563

3,463

2

4

959

926

0

0

1,046

1,046

169

169

20,065 15,862

Screven Spalding Stephens
Sumter Tattnall Thomas

283 800 430
1,198 173
1,501

278 739 448
1,082 101
1,245

1,353 2,298
878
1,977 1,636 2,708

1,351 2,488
903
1,976 1,138 2,364

22

27

106

97

0

0

118

84

53

6 1

1

0

2

1

52

27

O-

0

54

33

22

23

53

39

1,660 3,256
1,338 3.347 1,884 4,263

1,657 3,351

1,351

3..1

75 -

1,323

3,648

Tifi Toombs Treutlen

1,995 587 144

2,486 474 129

6,496 1,790 3,175

6,552 1,702 2,757

1

8

53

50

2

3

255

166

62

66

0

4

8,747
2,492 3,321

9,212
2,292 2,893

Troup Walker Ware

6,123 620 943

6,110 647 888

1,722 2,547 4,051

1,773 2,542 3.828

203

154

8 1

22

154

154

67

20

8,115

8,057

12

7

3,260

3,218

92

84

5,240

4,954

Washington
Wayne Worth

78 1

703

279

356

497

403

531
425 2,577

49 1
42 1 2,461

10

8

39

53

1

1

4

4

1,326

1,206

11

23

754

853

33

28

3,108

2,893

TOTAL

113.056 105,072'

271,429 223,942*

70,206 60,541

105,889 92,177

520,580 481,732

'Criminal dispositions lnclude some multiple counts (charges),whereas cr~minaflilings are tallied by docket entrles only.

Figure 28

Probate Courts
FY '82

FY '83 FY '84

FY '85

CY '85

- Dispositiondata unavailablefor FY '83.
Filings Dispositions-

Table 52

CY 1985 Probate Court Civil Caseload (Docket entries filed)

County

Total Civil

Administration

No Administration
Necessary

Probate Common Solemn

Guardianship

Jenkins

174

4

2

Jones

493

8

2

Lamar

326

5

9

Lanier

135

7

3

Laurens

825

14

19

2

14

1

7

30

7

3

30

3

2

16

5

6

76

20

Lee

326

4

4

4

29

1

Lincoln

88

4

0

1

18

1

Long

125

8

2

0

9

5

Madison

397

17

4

2

39

10

Marion

123

5

3

0

17

3

Monroe

324

7

2

4

36

11

Morgan

289

6

9

3

49

8

Murray

454

18

5

0

38

8

Muscogee

4,080

65

46

18

47 1

83

Newton

1,055

30

12

3

92

28

Oglethorpe

229

5

5

0

24

3

Paulding

61 9

25

9

1

57

20

Pickens

337

9

6

1

40

0

Pierce

265

10

0

7

23

3

Pike

206

7

1

0

30

5

Polk

1,006

4 1

19

Pulaski

222

3

2

Putnam

193

18

3

Quitman

60

4

1

Rabun

309

10

9

2

94

2 1

2

24

7

2

37

8

0

11

1

1

42

9

Randolph

192

7

2

2

23

2

Richmond

3,692

86

47

44

357

126

Rockdale

1,152

12

11

4

86

47

Schley

65

3

1

0

4

1

Screven

246

12

3

4

28

11

Seminole

1,353

8

13

Spalding

1,189

24

15

Stewart

115

6

0

Sumter

61 6

15

6

Taylor

139

6

2

0

31

5

2

102

2 1

0

7

4

5

66

16

1

17

0

Telfair

319

5

1

Terrell

367

11

4

Thomas

1,122

19

7

Toom bs

702

185

16

Towns

185

4

1

0

33

4

0

36

4

1

105

16

2

44

11

0

21

7

Treutlen

143

6

3

Turner

209

7

2

Upson

662

15

12

Walker

867

30

20

Walton

69 1

14

10

1

5

0

1

18

6

2

94

10

7

152

69

3

66

14

Ware

890

37

15

Warren

96

1

1

Washington

382

15

8

Wheeler

111

5

1

2

101

28

3

14

5

9

47

11

0

14

4

White

325

6

4

2

36

8

Wilkinson

268

12

1

2

25

7

Worth

383

7

6

0

57

14

Year's Support
1 3 5 2 3
5 4 2 4 0
3 5 12 82 8
0 6 3 0 2
7 0 1 1 1
2 145
9 0 1
8 16
1 5 0
1 5 6 10 2
3 2 9 25 6
7 0 1 2
5 1 4

Hospitalization 12 15 18 3 61
4 0 0 26 0
3 14 19 103 41
2 0 43 11 4
80 8
10 2
13
0 122
10 2 0
0 0 10 5 0
15 13 355 32 0
5 20 35 56 39
29 3
16 1
20 35
5

Habeas Corpus
0 0 0 0 0
3 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 1 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 1 1 0 3
4 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 1 1
0 0 0 0
0 0 0

Licenses

Marriage Pistol

67

7 1

191

230

105

148

65

32

378

248

128

144

35

25

67

32

163

132

47

48

121

137

118

77

21 7

137

2,310

901

460

38 1

57

133

303

198

98

137

167

44

77

80

444

298

87

89

114

0

17

23

112

112

68 1,712
496 43 87

86 1,052
476 11 97

1,233

51

603

406

46

41

278

220

65

48

124

136

96

198

461

152

242

160

81

69

72

48

69

84

263

222

306

201

318

220

453

21 8

41

28

152

123

53

31

137

107

83

102

167

123

Table 53

CY 1985 Probate Court Criminal Caseload (Docket entries)

County

Misdemeanor Filed Disposed

Traffic Filed Disposed

Total Caseload Filed Disposed

Atkinson Bacon Banks

51

71

552

840

603

91 1

2

4

455

454

457

458

10

20

1,141

1,249

1,151

1,269

Barrow Bartow Ben Hill

0

0

252

228

35

31

1,441 6,460 1,238

1,463 6,501 1,082

1,441 6,712 1,273

1,463 6,729 1,113

Berrien Bleckley Catoosa

0

0

964

964

964

964

23

23

748

748

771

771

0

0

6,167

6,165

6,167

6,165

Chariton Clay Codc

0

0

1,049

1,082

1,049

1,082

0

0

481

48 1

48 1

481

81

81

6,134

6,134

6,215

6.215

Dade Dawson Dodge

5

5

2,196

2,196

2,201

2,201

0

0

1,104

1,104

1,104

1,104

50

35

1,158

957

1,208

992

Douglas Fayette Floyd

35

33

6,989

7,036

7,024

7,069

36

26

2,061

1,848

2,097

1,874

96

74

5,414

5,477

5,510

5,551

Gilmer Glascock Gordon

115

115

11

11

49

50

883 72
3,543

883 80
3,651

998 83
3,592

998 91
3,701

Greene Haralson Harris

0

0

31

9

123

113

1,532 2.555 2,163

1,525 2,197 2,120

1,532 2,586 2,286

1,525 2,206 2,233

Heard Henry Irwin

0

0

61 2

704

612

704

88

90

8,064

7,472

8,152

7,562

30

30

367

367

397

397

Johnson Jones Lamar

0

0

406

520

406

520

0

0

2,261

2,261

2.261

2,261

17

22

1,691

1,604

1,708

1,626

Lanier Laurens Lee

0

0

292

292

292

292

105

9 1

6,624

5,742

6,729

5,833

48

48

1,651

1,588

1,699

1,636

Lincoln Madison Marion

207

202

63

57

27

42

425 1,126
998

425 1,066 1,077

632 1,189 1,025

627 1,123 1.119

Mclntosh Morgan Murray

0

0

98

98

162

162

2,671 4,958 1,617

1,826 4,958 1,617

2,671 5,056 1,779

1.826 5,056 1,779

Newton Oglethorpe Paulding

103

103

52

45

74

73

4,086 709
1,475

4,004 658
1,525

4,189 761
1,549

4,107 703
1,598

Peach Pickens Pike

2

2

1,263

1.256

1,265

1,258

0

0

2,215

2,215

2,215

2,215

10

3

1,218

1,197

1,228

1,200

Polk Pulaski Qulman

68

48

1,827

1,710

1,895

1,758

15

15

543

543

558

558

82

82

279

279

361

361

Rabun Randolph Richmond

117 185 7,091

117 185 4,986

466 1,120 12,371

466 1,120 10.398

583 1,305 19,462

583 1,305 15,384

Schley Seminole Stewart

9

9

96

96

63

61

314

314

836

836

261

320

323

323

932

932

324

381

Taliaferro Taylor Terrell

31

31

42

48

136

136

835 1,100
979

999 1,096
979

866
1,142 1,115

1,030
1,144 1,115

Turner Twiggs Union

0

0

3,167

3,167

3,167

3,167

34

34

1,055 1,031

1.089

1,065

72

63

583

559

655

622

Upson Walton Warren
Webster Wheeler White
Whitfield Wilkinson
TOTAL

72 24 14
16 72
0
131 75
5,149

82 23 13
16 66
0
131 75
4.91 5

3,086 3,170
889
603 1,003
513
3,845 395
190,528

3.024 3,098
845
603 989 51 3
3,845 384
185,695

3,158 3,194
903
619 1,075
51 3
3,976 470
195.677

3,106 3,121
858
619 1,055
51 3
3,976 459
190,610

Juvenile Courts
total filings/dispositions

Filings

-

Dispositions

Table 54

CY 1985 Juvenile Court Caseload (Number of children)

County
Appling Atkinson Bacon
Baker Baldwin Banks
Barrow Bartow Ben Hill
Berrien Bibb Bleckley
Brantley Brooks Bryan
Bulloch Burke Butts
Calhoun Camden Candler
Carroll Catoosa Charlton
Chatham Chattahoochee Chattooga
Cherokee Clarke Clay
Clayton Clinch Cobb
Coffee Colquitt Columbia
Cook Coweta Crawford
Crisp Dade Dawson
Decatur DeKalb Dodge
Dooly Dougherty Douglas
Early Echols Effingham
Elbert Emaneul Evans

Delinquent Filed Disposed

43

40

13

13

11

13

3

3

34

34

7

7

76

55

26 1

180

46

23

13

13

773 746

26

26

14

16

36

26

11

10

85

72

33

31

54

48

6

4

74

71

18

18

165 131

154 156

12

11

1,065 954

4

4

40

37

255 215

347 335

10

10

677 8
1342

543 8
1lE4

54

51

91

61

124 124

77

75

152 144

6

6

51

43

4

1

19

14

49

35

2,362 2,062

28

23

32

32

630 611

308 217

46

36

0

0

7

7

30

36

16

16

23

30

Unruly Filed Disposed

5

4

1

1

8

8

1

1

10

10

2

1

28

20

104

87

2

1

5

5

136 137

0

0

6

6

2

1

3

3

32

27

4

4

4

4

5

4

22

20

1

1

68

28

34

39

1

0

196 176

2

2

5

4

92

74

74

65

2

2

374 306

5

5

827 747

3

3

8

4

16

16

12

10

69

69

0

0

12

10

7

4

0

0

10

5

1,040 981

1

1

8

8

44

44

76

43

14

14

0

0

15

11

3

4

0

0

11

11

Traffic Filed Disposed

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

15

15

18

15

0

0

0

0

4

4

0

0

0

1

2

1

0

0

14

12

0

0

0

1

1

1

0

0

0

0

11

11

20

20

1

1

92

56

0

0

0

0

33

29

20

20

0

0

30

22

0

0

136 121

9

7

3

3

7

7

0

0

2

1

1

1

2

2

0

0

0

0

1

1

140 110

2

2

1

1

28

28

14

15

15

15

0

0

6

6

9

13

0

0

1

1

Deprived Filed Disposed

0

0

4

4

12

3

0

0

58

56

4

4

42

39

119

85

7

3

5

5

115

82

6

6

1

1

11

10

6

6

15

18

10

6

1

1

0

0

76

76

5

5

91

63

35

23

4

7

247 228

5

5

9

8

25

24

114 107

1

1

209 185

4

4

311 258

8

6

30

11

3

3

3

3

133 127

2

2

42

31

7

13

0

3

19

11

494 485

0

0

12

8

56

64

47

18

4

4

0

0

30

26

4

2

31

31

14

17

Special Proceedings Filed Disposed

0

0

0

0

2

2

1

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

26

11

0

0

0

0

181 135

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

1

0

0

11

11

0

0

11

9

1

1

0

0

62

60

0

0

3

3

86

65

17

16

0

0

139 113

1

1

121 106

4

4

2

2

12

8

3

3

5

5

0

0

1

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

127 126

0

0

0

0

7

7

10

8

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

3

3

0

0

Total Caseload Filed Disposed

48

44

18

18

33

26

5

5

102 100

13

12

161 129

528 378

55

27

23

23

1,209 1,104

32

32

2 1

24

51

38

20

19

146 129

47

41

60

55

12

9

183 178

24 - 24

346 242

244 239

18

19

1,662 1,474

11

11

57

52

491 407

572 543

13

13

1,429 1,169

18

18

2,E 7 2,296

78

71

134

81

162 158

95

91

361 346

9

9

108

87

18

18

19

17

79

52

4,163 3,764

31

26

53

49

765 754

455 301

79

69

0

0

58

50

46

55

50

50

49

59

Table 54
CY 1985 Juvenile Court Caseload (Number of children)

county
Fannin Fayette Floyd
Forsyth Franklin Fulton
Gilmer Glascock Glynn
Gordon Grady Greene
Gwinnett Habersham Hall
Hancock Haralson Harris
Hart Heard Henry
Houston Irwin Jackson
Jasper Jeff Davis Jefferson
Jenkins Johnson Jones
Lamar Lanier Laurens
Lee Liberty Lincoln
Long Lowndes Lumpkin
Macon Madison Marion
McDuffie Mclntosh Meriwether
Miller Mitchell Monroe
Montgomery Morgan Murray
Muscogee Newton Oconee

Delinquent Filed Disposed

24

20

98

112

335

310

146 25
6,053

177 16
4,773

25

19

0

0

389

391

175

156

25

18

8

8

1.160 13
264

1.130 6
279

0

0

41

37

13

15

35

45

2

2

117

77

160

185

9

30

44

45

2

2

69

66

45

44

6

6

12

12

1

1

24

24

10

10

133

136

67

54

200

121

3

3

16

17

134

140

27

2 1

36

40

28

29

1

2

30

31

29

30

32

37

5

6

52

52

34

30

15

16

42

43

135

112

964

981

293

264

3

1

Unruly Filed Disposed

15

14

7

11

216

208

33

45

5

4

989

716

14

10

0

0

143

137

91

77

3

2

2

2

448

427

7

1

140

148

0

0

6

5

2

3

3

2

0

0

80

75

83

77

1

1

10

8

0

0

4

4

4

2

0

0

0

0

0

0

8

8

3

3

27

27

10

10

79

50

0

0

10

10

22

22

0

0

2

3

10

9

4

4

4

4

6

9

0

0

1

1

3

3

1

1

1

1

16

16

38

27

413

418

113

111

0

0

Traffic Filed Disposed

7

6

1

1

19

19

4

4

5

4

565

474

0

0

0

0

7

7

26

22

1

1

0

0

202

113

0

0

10

11

0

0

6

6

1

1

5

5

0

0

83

76

4

5

2

6

3

3

0

0

10

10

0

0

0

0

3

3

0

0

0

0

0

0

10

10

15

22

4

4

0

0

1

1

10

10

7

6

3

3

7

6

0

0

0

0

0

0

4

4

3

3

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

106

102

12

10

0

0

Deprived Filed Disposed

12

10

17

17

102

87

5

5

3

5

892

728

4

3

0

0

40

39

103

93

3

2

18

18

348

329

31

12

68

72

2

2

7

14

0

0

13

14

10

10

20

20

51

52

0

0

23

16

2

2

14

15

8

8

12

12

7

8

6

6

2 1

14

0

0

49

46

5

5

11

0

0

0

10

15

35

34

0

0

3

5

5

1

2

4

10

6

9

14

75

79

1

0

9

5

23

12

5

10

14

19

35

31

279

265

178

159

13

8

Special Proceedings
Filed ~ i s p o i e d

1

2

0

0

3

3

23

24

0

0

227

174

7

6

0

0

4

2

9

6

5

6

0

0

77

63

0

0

27

22

0

0

0

0

1

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

17

14

0

0

2

2

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

9

9

3

1

1

2

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

1

2

2

1

1

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

3

3

199

170

63

41

1

0

Total Caseload Filed ~isp&ed

59 123 675 211
38 8,726
50 0
583
404 37 28
2.235 51
509
2 60 17
56 12 300
315 12 82
4 97 58
18 22
7
53 13 219
106 297
4
37 201
34
44 50
7
45 46 112

52 141 627 255
29 6,865
38 0
576
354 29 28
2.062 19
532
2 62 20
66 12 248
333 37 74
4 95 54
18 23
7
46 13 219
100 176
5
43 206
28
51 45 10
42 55 121

10 64 58
2 1 72 21 1 1,961
659 17

10 60 44
27 78 173 1,936
585 9

Table 54

CY 1985 Juvenile Court Caseload (Number of children)

County

Delinquent Filed Disposed

Unruly Filed Disposed

Traffic Filed Disposed

Oglethorpe

11

Paulding

160

Peach

43

12

3

5

0

0

155

83

87

30

29

47

3

3

1

1

Pickens Pierce Pike

13

14

3

3

1

1

9

12

2

2

2

4

11

13

3

3

1

1

Polk Pulaski Putnam

28

20

42

34

2

0

18

12

0

0

0

0

4

4

1

1

0

0

Quitman Rabun Randolph

1

0

0

0

0

0

18

12

2

2

1

1

28

26

0

0

0

0

Richmond Rockdale Schley

1,217 134 24

1,187 133 9

422

410

74

68

0

0

29

23

78

73

0

0

Screven Seminole Spalding

34

29

5

5

13

13

14

14

0

0

0

0

209

21 1

89

87

4

4

Stephens Stewart Sumter
Tal bot Taliaferro Tattnall

39

24

3

3

5

3

11

11

0

1

0

0

140

142

15

16

11

10

1

2

1

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

36

40

2

3

1

1

Taylor Telfair Terrell

4

4

3

3

0

0

53

50

17

17

5

5

26

26

3

3

2

2

Thomas Tiff Toombs
Towns Treutlen Troup

110

70

18

13

157

83

30

22

66

55

12

12

0

0

0

0

26

26

6

6

61 3

576

56

49

2

0

1

0

0

0

1

1

3

4

8

8

Turner Twiggs Union

15

23

0

0

0

0

19

16

3

1

0

0

14

3

2

1

0

0

Upson Walker Walton
Ware Warren Washington
Wayne Webster Wheeler
White Whitfield Wilcox
Wilkes Wilkinson Worth
TOTAL

4 1 152 365
118 1
34
39 2
10
4 31 1
9
5 13 28
25,873

46 151 388
103 1
4 1
49 2
10
4 283
7
4 12 26
22,913

12 79 91
41 0 9
18 0 0
0 222
0
0 0 5
7,867

12 75 95
35 0 9
20 0 0
0 208
0
0 0 5
7,067

3 37 80
16 0 0
5 1 1
0 20
0
0 0 3
2,151

3 35 86
15 0 0
7 4 1
0 18
0
0 0 3
1,857

t Dispositions include hearings and other cases, except dispositions on attachments.

Deprived Filed Disposed

3

7

13

7

0

0

5

5

5

8

7

7

29

29

2

2

22

22

0

0

7

3

3

3

19

18

51

51

8

8

20

20

0

0

74

68

7

5

8

8

24

23

1

1

0

0

3

4

2

2

6

2

2

2

14

4

11

10

25

23

2

2

15

17

158

159

3

4

8

10

14

4

38

39

40

36

156

160

48

42

0

2

13

13

18

23

1

1

13

14

1

1

193

199

5

5

8

8

3

2

2

3

6,214 5,605

Special Proceedings Filed Disposed

0

0

1

1

0

0

1

1

1

1

0

0

1

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

20

18

20

22

0

1

0

0

0

0

15

15

7

4

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

3

3

0

0

2

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

1

3

0

0

0

0

15

10

0

0

2 1

23

32

42

8

12

0

0

0

0

1

3

1

1

0

0

1

1

33

36

0

0

0

0

0

0

3

4

1,713 1,462

Total Caseload Filed Disposed

17

24

287

279

47

51

23

24

19

27

22

24

102

84

20

14

27

27

1

0

29

18

31

29

1,707 357 32

1,656 347 18

72

67

14

14

391

385

61

39

19

2 1

190

191

3

4

0

0

42

48

9

9

8 1

74

36

36

144

87

201

115

103

90

4

3

50

53

836

795

18

27

30

27

45

18

94

100

329

320

724

771

231

207

1

3

56

63

81

102

5

a

24

25

6

6

779

744

14

12

13

12

16

14

41

41

43,818 38,904

Table 55

FY 1986 Magistrate Court Caseload (Cases filed)

County
Appling Atkinson Bacon Baldwin
Banks Barrow Ben Hill Berrien
Bibb Bleckley Brooks Bryan
Bulloch Burke Butts Calhoun
Camden *Candler Carroll *Charlton
Chatham Clarke Clay Clayton
Clinch Cobb Coffee Colquitt
Columbia *Cook Coweta Crawford
Crisp Dade Dawson Decatur
DeKalb Dodge Dooly Dougherty
*Douglas Early Echols Effingham
Ernanuel Evans Fannin *Fayette
Floyd Franklin Fulton Gilmer
*Glascock Glynn Gordon Greene
Gwinnett Habersham Hall Hancock

Warrants Issued
995 198 328 2,347
406 1,942 1,978 1,006
6,941 696 589 482
3,104 1,213
648 134
1,936 125
1,934 104
5,847 10,211
80 6,933
163 12,660
3,935 2,526
1,511 252
2,396 295
1,357 653 31 2
1,658
15,862 946 338
7,692
468 389
38 589
1,372 424 595 427
4,915 669
16,640 747
7 3,623 2,550
564
9,195 1,371 5,100
21 1

Bond and Committment
Hearings
200 0
109 360
31 9 458 106
7
1,937 94
280 59
39 20 128
1
682 59 1 34
4,707 2,112
68 7,887
0 1,024
868 73
35 6
466 10
21 8 532 120 551
14,129 0
15 21 5
0 0 16 23
387 134 128 140
223 185 17,935 207
0 154 721 154
2,152 385
2,616 100

County Ordinances Filed Disposed

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

33

8

2

2

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

5

5

41

41

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

106 130

0

0

1,427 918

0

0

89

0

112

78

0

0

204 113

3

3

0

0

0

0

22

18

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

35

36

0

0

0

0

2

2

40

40

0

0

4

4

48

25

6 0 25,208 0

6 0 2,504 0

0

0

22

22

0

0

0

0

0

0

86

89

330 330

0

0

Civil Claims Filed Disposed

394 359 323 320 199 199 2,413 NIA

141 619 1,292 332

100 406 1,300 263

1,084 785 499 470 433 434 462 327

1,440 777 358 165

2,289 657 263 141

452 312

314 320

1,129 939

26

10

4,682 1,237
25 1,296

3,613 1,135
27 694

515 1,993
784 1,927

291 1,173
783 788

914 86
1,569 136

586 123 1,436 116

685 664 115 117 367 232 1,867 NIA

2,752 354 531
3,982

2,036 249 346
4,392

163 126

603 603

15

13

442 442

985 985 388 264 233 237 179 144

2,205 363
3,140 542

1,891 325 581 239

7

4

1,264 754

666 511

720 703

1,694 495
1,404 747

1,602 356
1,222 750

132

Other Civil Cases Filed Disposed

134

36

99

68

103

51

1,488 NIA

43

40

297 203

916 805

163

69

275 165

113

76

132

56

83

74

566 448

373 247

101

96

77

16

222 189

53

45

666 524

11

4

7,016 1,625
7 5,872

1,593 537 5 739

220

7

0

0

477 352

499 164

276 245

30

30

781 470

19

19

487 343

6

6

22

6

625 NIA

75 59 122 1,238

39 19 83 1,124

206 147

197 119

2

2

113 104

362 168

148

70

16

15

122

75

1,873 127
13,040 58

1,295 22
2,003 31

1 879 347 219
3,528

0 321 241 182
4,312

188 187 1,181 837

189

44

Total Filings**
1,523 620 630
6,248
623 2,860 4,186 1,501
8,300 1,308 1,159 1,068
5,110 2,363 1,108
376
2,610 492
3,729 141
17,545 13,073
1 39 14,207
898 16,307
5,196 5,041
2,813 368
4,950 453
2,529 774 723
4,150
18,689 1,359 99 1
12,912
872 1,189
55 1,146
2,759 960 848 776
8,999 1,159 58,028 1,347
15 5,788 3,563 1,503 14,417
2,140 8,015 1,147

Total Hearings and Dispositionst
595 388 359 360
467 1,069 2,211
339
2,887 640 775 501
2,776 924 487 158
1,183 424
1,464 48
9,917 3,784
100 9,450
227 3,115 2,003 1,025
944 159 2,485 148
1,225 655 376 551
16,204 268 444
5,731
309 722
31 571
1,580 468 384 384
3,415 332
23,023 477
4 1,251 1,473 1,039 8,066
1,017 5,005
894

FY 1986 Magistrate Court Caseload (Cases filed)

County
Haralson Harris Hart Heard
Henry Houston Irwin Jackson
Jasper Jeff Davis Jefferson Johnson
Jones Lamar Lanier Laurens
Lee Lincoln *Long Lowndes
Lumpkin Macon Madison Marion
McDuffie Mclntosh Meriwether Miller
Monroe Montgomery Morgan Murray
Muscogee 'Newton *Oconee Oglethorpe
Paulding Peach Pickens Pierce
Pike Pulaski Putnam Quitman
Rabun Randolph Richmond Rockdale
Schley Seminole Spalding Stephens
Sumter *Tattnall "Taylor Telfair
Terrell Thomas Tift Toombs

Warrants Issued
555 503 644 279
1,574 3,817
289 1 ,OOo
345 879 1,131 367
547 489 385 2,184
352 222 165 4,968
507 755 338
87
1,184 278 623 242
490 223 560 1,054
0 682
72 236
1,178 533 621 700
293 482 757
30
149 317 8,853 1,855
150 131 2,856 1,500
2,409 95 55
635
51 1 2,846 3,172 2,453

Bond and Committment
Hearings
24 146 167
0
1,273 1,341
4 340
122 792 257
19
4 88 125 22
62 23 12 1,243
287 9 1 127 22
65 51 189
0
115 0
42 11
0 161
0 44
279 639
0 131
305 242 61 1
11
0 36 2,155 61 9
122 50
986 199
2,009 0 1
120
258 459 2,302
12

County Ordinances Filed Disposed

2

0

70

58

0

0

2

2

135 162

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

2

2

15

15

0

0

237 170

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

7

7

0

0

7

10

0

0

1

1

0

0

11

11

36

36

0

0

5

5

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

2

0

0

1

1

47

47

0

0

90

95

0

0

0 0 4,824 340

0 0 4,809 345

0

0

0

0

14

14

2

2

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

6

7

0

0

0

0

Civil Claims Filed Disposed

321 128 290 215 449 347 195 197

1,122 861 1,308 846
208 214 486 581

174 132 632 634 762 762 281 226

503 312 327 252 167 167 978 746

248 300
16 3,886

227 323
18 1,729

186 219

456 439

261 136

68

36

910 789 324 216 579 568 274 283

601 434 171 174 386 353 516 477

579 169

309 193

82

50

170 118

324 207 499 419 193 149 198 163

134

84

383 314

688 569

27

27

296 172 7,858 685

291 190 7,774 511

55 212 2,378 363

48 215 1,479 415

1,041 944

164 164

22

0

275 270

299 2,004
916 1,194

330 1,482
917 958

133

Other Civil Cases Filed Disposed

95

34

122

84

121

71

33

0

412 1,096
152 151

182 1,202
96 121

58

26

288 259

370 269

84

67

122

61

205 174

50

5 1

351 487

109 88
5 2,680

85 42
5 1,536

67

66

101 109

44 115

29

26

434 139

64

47

168 128

40

20

257 159

28

19

124

93

210 187

5

3

124

93

30

26

31

6

209 171

152 122

50

42

36

31

27

15

86

5

364 236

15

0

20 25 7,581 617

18 16 4,871 485

29 60 2,069 8 1

20 46 1,145 52

777 642

49

29

3

1

139

63

120 119 1,087 804
423 291 432 372

Total Filings**
973 985 1,214 509
3,243 6,221
649 1,637
577 1,799 2,263
732
1,172 1,021
602 3,513
71 1 625 186 1 1,699
760 1,312
643 184
2,535 666
1,377 556
1,349 422
1,081 1,816
584 1,120
184 437
1,711 1,185
864 935
501 951 1,899
72
465 51 4 29,116 3,497
234 403 7,317 1,946
4,227 308 80
1,049
930 5,943 4,511 4,079

Total Hearings anc Dispositionst
186 503 585 199
2,478 3,389
314 1,042
280 1,685 1,288
312
377 514 343 1,255
376 403
35 4,678
572 639 378
84
1,m 314 895 303
709 193 499 71 1
172 452
76 168
657 1,182
191 326
451 561 1 3 11
38
309 242 19,609 1,906
190 31 1 3,624 668
3,595 193 2 453
707 2,752 3,510 1,342

Table 55

FY 1986 Magistrate Court Caseload (Cases filed)

County
Towns *Treutlen Trou p Turner
Twiggs Upson Walker Walton
Ware *Warren Washington Wayne
Webster Wheeler White Whitfield
Wilcox Wilkes Wilkinson Worth

Warrants Issued
206 108 1,793 51 3
303 1,000 1,415

Bond and Committment
Hearings
4 4 202 152
59 42 1 351

County Ordinances Filed Disposed

0

0

0

0

9

9

0

0

0

0

0

0

46

51

903

43

0

0

Civil Claims Filed Disposed

44 42 2,859 264

39 42 2,565 252

186 157 644 211 379 221

400 424

'Partial reportswere received from these counties.
** Total filings include warrants, attachments and all civil and criminal cases.
t Dispositions include hearings and other cases, except dispositions on attachments.

Other Civil Cases Filed Disposed

8 18 2,473 57

7 18 1,786 41

53

36

388

19

252 169

142 109

Total Filings**
258 168 7,134 834
542 2,032 2,092

Total Hearings and Dispositionst
50 64 4,562 445
252 651 792

1,445

576

Table 56

Supreme Court Caseload: 1985 and 1986

Filed

1985 1986 Disposed

Direct appeals (Final)

584 549 Opinions written

Petitions for certiorari
Original petitions/Motions
Habeas corpus applications
Applications for discretionary appeal
Applications for interlocutory appeal

572 563 Affirmed without opinion (Rule 59)

26

31 Certiorari applications

127

I Granted
152 Denied

I Dismissed

200

182 Habeas corpus

applications

Granted

50

52

Denied

Summary judgment granted
Certified questions

Supersedeas granted

16

0 Interlocutory

applications

14

11

Granted

Attorney disciplinet Judicial discipline

78

56

Denied

Discretionary

applications

Bar admissions

Granted

TOTAL

1,667 1,607 Denied

Original petitions/Motions

Granted

Denied

Disciplinary/Bar admissions/Judicial disciplinary decided by order

Other

Transferred to Court of Appeals by order Dismissed/Remanded by order Withdrawn Affirmed by order Habeas corpus death sentence set aside by order TOTAL

1985 1986 387 331
125 139

35

10

4

111 111

1

0

14

15

26

30

137 121

2

2

10

15

30

28

49

73

125 111

38

39

1

0

1

0

1,602 1,656

'Prior to 1986, Attorney discipline, Judicial discipline and Bar admissions were grouped together in one category.

III CORRECTIONS

Corrections - Introduction
The administration of state correctional facilities and programs is a function of the Executive branch of government. All offenders sentenced by the courts to the custody of the state are either housed in facilities operated by, or under the authority of, the Board of Corrections, or are supervised by probation officers employed by the Board. As of December 31, 1986, the Board was responsible for the custody and care of 17,363 inmates institutionalized in facilities under the authority of the Board. The Board also was responsible for the supervision of 100,847 active probationers as of December 1986. The Board of Correctionshas no authority over inmates released on parole. These offenders are supervised by the State Board of Pardons and Paroles and are addressed in a separate section of this publication.
Department of Corrections Facilities
The Department of Corrections is responsible to the courts for carrying out judicial sentences. In order to do so, the Department maintains three different types of facilities, has regulatory authority over another type of facility, and operates a separate division for the probation function. The Department has authority over 29 correctional institutions, 108 probation district offices and 15 diversion centers. It employs 6,857 persons to carry out its assigned functions. It is by far the largest state criminaljustice agency and one of the largest state agencies. The various programs for which the Department is responsible include:
1. Probation Supervision is a program operated by the Department as an alternative to incarceration. The judge may require a probationer to report to his probation supervisor on a routine basis, require community service work, require the payment of restitution to the victim, and may impose a variety of other special conditions upon the probationer's freedom. The Department employs 636 probation program employees to supervise offenders sentenced to state probation by the courts. As of December 1986, 100,847 active probationers were under the supervision of the Probation Division.
2. Diversion Centers are operated by the Department as short term residential facilities for offenders sentenced to a special term of probation. The maximum stay in a diversion center is 120 days. The diversion program is designed to allow a sentencing judge to impose a more rigorous sentencethan regular "street" probation, yet not as restrictiveas incarcerationin a prison facility. A diversion center offers a variety of educational, job training, counseling, treatment and other socialization programs to the offender. Residents of diversion centers are allowed to maintain their employment and must pay taxes, room and board, and any fines or restitution imposed by the judge. They also continue to pay for the support of their families. These centers are often referred to as "halfwayin houses". The Department employs 215 employees to supervise offenders placed in 15 diversion centers. The

current capacity of the diversion centers allows for treatment of 1,593 residents per year.
3. County Correctional Institutions are operated by 26 counties within the state. Although the county government operates, maintains, and employs the personnel who operate these facilities, they are under the regulatory authority of the Department of Corrections. They house inmates who are sentenced to the custody of the Department for terms of confinement. These inmates are required to work in various county maintenanceprograms such as road repairs and other public works. As of December 31, 1986, the 26 county correctional institutions housed 2,579 inmates.
4. State Prisons are operated by employees of the Department. These facilities offer a variety of educational, jobtraining, counseling, treatment, and other socialization programs to the inmates, but their primary emphasis is on maintaining the security of the institution. As of December 31, 1986, there were 14,315 inmates housed in 24 state institutions operated by 5,018 employees.
5. Transition Centers are operated by the Department to provide an easier transition back into the community life for inmates who are scheduled for release from prison in the near future. The program is designed to lessen the personal shock of going from a totally controlled and disciplined institutional setting to the free environment the average citizen enjoys. It is also directed at helping the residents secure and maintain meaningful employment. These Centers are referred to as "halfway-out houses". As of December 31, 1986, there were 469 residents housed in these centers operated by 131 employees.
County Jails
In Georgia, the sheriff of each county retains the English common law duty as chief jailer. He is responsible for the care, maintenance and security of all prisoners lawfully detained and awaiting trial and of all inmates sentenced to his custody by the courts. Generally, inmates serving their sentences in county jails have received sentencesof 12 months or less, are awaiting transfer to a state prison facility, or are temporarily assigned to the county jail subject to the agreement of both the sheriff and the commissioner of the Department of Corrections, while they are working on a state Department of Corrections-approved work project.
Currently, there are 145 county jails funded for operation in the state's 159 counties.
Municipal Jails and Detention Facilities
According to a survey conducted by the Department of Community Affairs, municipalities in the state operate approximately 155 jails and/or detention facilities. The

average daily population of all these facilities combined was 7,650 detainees. With the exception of a few notable facilities, such as those found in the major urban centers, it can generally be said that municipaljails are primarily short-term lock-ups which hold detainees for periods of time not exceeding 72 hours before court appearances, transfers to county jails, or release. Due to the more stringent standards applied to correctional facilitieswhich house individuals for periods of time exceeding ?2 hours, some municipalities which have maintained prisoners for longer periods are either closing down their jails or using them only as short-term holding facilities.
Corrections Data
The data collected and published in this report are provided by the Department of Corrections Statistics Unit within the Department's Evaluation and Statistics component. This unit is responsible for maintaining all relevant statistical data on inmates and probationers assigned to the custody of the state. Since much of these data are critical to internal decisionmaking within the Department of Corrections, they are maintained primarily for such internal purposes. The Department of Corrections is, however, required by law to submit certain criminal history record information to the Georgia Crime Information Center and also provides to the State Board of Pardons and Paroles data on offender status and on offender conduct while in prison. The improved computer capabilities of this unit currently provide in-depth analysis of offender information and feedback to other criminal justice system components, especially to the judiciary.
Statistical data on inmate populations at the local level (i.e., county and city jails) are extremely difficult to maintain, since there is no central repository. The Department of Community Affairs, with the assistance of the computerized reporting capabilities of the Georgia Crime Information Center, has been collecting limited data on local jail populations since mid-1982, as noted in the narrative portion of this report.

PRISON PROFILE
Table 57 outlines population trends in the major categories of prisons from 1982 to 1986. The figures represent inmate counts taken in December of each year. During that period, the overall inmate population increased from 14,057 to 17,363.
More specific data on individual institutions within the state system are available Table 58. Those prisons with the greatest population include the Georgia Industrial Institute (GII) at Alto (1,493), Georgia Diagnostic Classification Center (GDCC) at Jackson (1,746), Middle Georgia Correctional
Institute - Rivers (928) and the Georgia State Prison (GSP)
at Reidsville (950). (Note: The GDCC is operated primarily for the classification of prisoners to be reassigned to other correctional institutions).

Table 57
CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION POPULATIONS BY TYPE, 1982 - 1986
Type of Facility
Transition Centers County Correctional Institutions State Correctional Institutions Other* Total
* "Other" inmates out to court on appeal.
Note: These figures represent inmate counts taken in December of each year.
Source: GDC

Institution

Table 58

INSTITUTION POPULATION BY AGE AND SEX, 1986
-

Age

Men

00-21 22-39 40-54 55-99

Total % 00-21 22-39

%men 40-54 55-99 Total

Atlanta Adv Ctr Macon Trans Ctr Atl Metro Trans Ctr New Horizons Savannah Trans Ctr Macon Women Trans Ctr Central State Hosp Bulloch C.C.I. Carroll C.C.I. Clarke C.C.I. Colquitt C.C.I. Coweta C.C.I. Decatur C.C.I. Effingham C.C.I. Floyd C.C.I. Fulton C.C.I. Gwinnett C.C.I. Hall C.C.I. Harris C.C.I. Houston C.C.I. Jackson C.C.I. Jefferson C.C.I. Meriwether C.C.I. Mitchell C.C.I. Muscogee C.C.I. Richmond C.C.I. Spalding C.C.I. Stewart C.C.I. Sumter C.C.I. Terrell C.C.I. Thomas C.C.I. Troup C.C.I. Upson C.C.I. Ware C.I. Lowndes C.I. Dodge C.I. CXDC (Buford) Walker C.I. Wayne C.I. GII (Alto) Montgomery C.I. Lee C.I. Putnam C.I. GSP (Reidsville) Middle Ga C.I. - Men Metro C.I. GDCC (Jackson) - Diag GDCC (Jackson) - Perm Coastal C.I. Middle Ga C.I. - Y.O. Stone Mtn. C.I. Middle Ga C.I. - Women Middle Ga C.I. - Rivers Rutledge C.I. Central C.I. Augusta Medical C.I. Rogers C.I. Burris C.I.

Grand % Total %

Total

2,050 11,816 2,113 434 16,413 100%

89 723

Note: Due to rounding, percentages do not always total 100%.Figures represent counts taken in December 1986. Source: GDC

114

24

INMATE PROFILE
In analyzing the inmate population from 1982 to 1986, sex and race variables remain constant (See Table 59). Table 60 provides more specific data concerning age, sex and race of the 1986 inmate population.
Of frequent interest in discussing offenders is the individual prisoner's actual length of sentence. Table 61 indicates that the numbers of persons assigned each specific sentence length are increasing, yet the percentage of the total for each

sentence length remains basically the same. The only notable percentage change is that of youthful offenders. In 1982 youthful offenders represented 7.6% of the inmate population while in 1986 they represented only 0.4%. No other category has demonstrated this type of change.
Also important is the number of offenders awaiting execution. Though the percentages have remained constant, actual numbers on death row have risen from 99 in 1982 to 114 in 1986. One execution took place in 1986.

Table 59
INMATE POPULATION BY RACE AND SEX, 1982 - 1986

1982

% 1983

% 1984

%

1985

%

1986

%

White Male Non-White Male White Female Non-White Female
Total

5,504 7,919
269 365
14,057

39.2% 56.3%
1.9% 2.6%

5,999 8,748
304 453

38.7% 56.4% 2.0% 2.9%

100.0% 15,504 100.0%

6,114 8,854
292 471

38.9% 56.3%
1.9% 3.0%

15,731 100.0%

6,254 9,197
342 506

38.4% 56.4% 2.1% 3.1%

16,299 100.0%

6,569 9,847
365 582

37.8% 56.7% 2.1% 3.4%

17,363 100.0%

Note: Due to rounding, percentages do not always total 100%. These. figures represent inmate counts taken in December of each year. Source: GDC

Race and Sex

Table 60
INMATE POPULATION BY RACE, AGE, AND SEX, 1986

Age 00-21

Men 22-39 40-54 55-99

Total % 00-21 22-39

Women 40-54 55-99 Total

Grand % Total %

White Male Non-White Male White Female Non-White Female
Total

860 4,402 1,078 229

1,190 7,417 1,035 205

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

6,569 9,847
0 0

40% 60%
0% 0%

2,050 11,819 2,113 434 16,416100%

0

0

0

0

38

265

51 455

89 720

0

0

0 0% 6,569 38%

0

0

0 0% 9,847 57%

56

6 365 39%

365 2%

58

18 582 61%

582 3%

114

24 947 100% 17,363 100%

Note: Figures represent imnate counts taken in December of 1986. Source: GDC

Figure 30
INMATE POPULATION
BY RACE k SIM, 1986
NON W/F (3.4%)

NON W/M

Sentence in Years

Table 61
INMATE SENTENCE LENGTH IN YEARS, 1982 - 1986

1982

% 1983

% 1984

%

1985

%

1986

%

0- 1 1.1-2 2.1-3 3.1-4 4.1-5 5.1-6 6.1-7 7.1-8 8.1-9 9.1-10 10.1-12 12.1-15 15.1-20 20.1-over Life Death Youthful Offender
Total

14,057 100.0% 15,504

Note: Due to rounding, percentages do not always total 100%. These figures represent inmate counts taken in December of each year.

Source: GDC

Table 62
INMATE SENTENCE IN YEARS BY AGE AND SEX, 1986

Sentence in Years

Age

Men

00-21 22-39 40-54 55-99

Total % 00-21 22-39

Wnnen 40-54 55-99 'Md

Gf8nd % T0t.l %

0- 1 1.1-2 2.1-3 3.1-4 4.1-5 5.1-6 6.1-7 7.1-8 8.1-9 9.1-10 10.1-12 12.1-15 15.1-20 20.1-over Life Death Youthful Offender

Total
Note: Due to munding, percentages do not always total 100%. Figures represent inmate counts taken in December of 1986. Sentence in years is indicated 1.1-2 meaning one year and one day to two years.
Source: GDC

Figure 31
INMATE SENTENCE LENGTHS, 1986

~SENTBNCBD
PERSONS m C E D
144

Crimes by Group

Table 63
PNMATE CRIME CATEGORIES BY AGE AND SEX, 1986

Age

Men

00-21 22-39 40-54 55-99

Age Total % 00-21 22-39

Mbmen 40-54 55-99 Total

Grand % Total %

Homicide Bodily Injury & Re1 Off Arson & Re1 Off Damage of Property Burglary and Re1 Off Forgery and Re1 Off Theft Robbery Sexual Offenses Crimes Involving Govt Falsifications Obstruct Law Enforcement Disorderly Conduct Gambling & Re1 Off Cruelty to Children Crimes with Guns Invasion Privacy Racketeering Drug Abuse Offenses Auto Crimes Misc. Felonies Misdemeanors

225 24% 60 6 % 12 1%
1 0% 45 5 % 115 12% 116 12% 87 9 %
7 1% 0 0% 1 0% 2 0% 2 0% 0 0% 28 3% 1 0% 0 0% 0 0% 150 16% 12 1% 1 0% 82 9%

2,622 15% 1,247 7 %
139 1% 46 0 % 3,305 19% 577 3% 1,569 9 % 3,216 19% 1,394 8 % 3 0% 10 0% 28 0 % 18 0 %
1 0% 81 0% 91 1% 8 0% 8 0% 1,815 10% 769 4 % 45 0 % 371 2%

Total

2,050 11,819 2,113 434

Note: Due to rounding, percentages do not always total 100%. Figures represent inmite counts taken in December of 1986.
Source: GDC

16,416100%

89 720

114

24 947 100% 17,363 100%

PROBATIONER PROFILE
Except for 1984, probation data has been available for each year from 1982 to 1986. The trend clearly indicates that the number of probationers is growing (See Table 64).
Analysis of the most serious crimes committed by probationers indicates that the greatest number of probationers

were involved in property crimes rather than violent crimes (See Table 66).
As the number of probationers increased, the number of probationers on first offender status also increased. In 1986 more probationers were on first offender status than at any other time (See Table 69).

Table 64
PROBATION POPULATION BY RACE AND SEX, 1982 - 1986

White Male Non-White Male White Female Non-White Female
Total

25,106 17,495 3,632 2,948
49,181

51.0% 35.6%
7.4% 6.0%
100.0%

31,021 23,690
4,905 4,671
64,287

48.3% 36.9% 7.6% 7.3%
100.0%

- 41,660 - 34,619 - 7,117 - 6,736
- 90,132

46.2% 38.4% 7.9%
7.5%

45,221 39,860
8,000 7,766

100.0% 100,847

44.8% 39.5% 7.9% 7.7%
100.0%

Note: Due to rounding, percentages do not always total 100%. Figures represent counts of probationers taken in August 1982, June 1983, December 1985 and 1986. Data for 1984 are unavailable. Source: GDC

Race and Sex

Table 65
PROBATION POPULATION BY RACE, AGE, AND SEX, 1986

Age

Men

00-21 22-39 40-98 Unk

Total

Women % 00-21 22-39 40-98

Unk Total

Grand % Total %

White Male Non-White Male White Female Non-White Female

5,838 3,883
0 0

30,634 28,116
0 0

8,353 7,628
0 0

396 45,221 53%

0

0

233 39,860 47%

0

0

0

0 0% 1,001 5,634

0

0 0%

896 5,668

0 0 1,337 1,172

0

0 0%

0

0 0%

28 8,000 51%

30 7,766 49%

45,221 39,860 8,000 7,766

45% 40%
8% 8%

Total

9,721 58,750 15,981 629 85,081 100% 1,897 11,302

2,509

58 15,766 100% 100,847 100%

Note: Figures represent counts of probationers taken in December of 1986. Source: GDC

Figure 32
PROBATION POPULATION
BY EACE AND SEX, 1988
NON I/M (99.6%)
Table 66
PROBATION POPULATION BY MOST SERIOUS CRIME TYPE, 1982 - 1986
Violent Personal Non-violent Personal fioperty Drug Sales Drug hssession Victimless Alcohol Other Total Reported
Due to rounding, percentages do not always total 100%. Beginning in 1985, a new crime type "Alcohol" was added and the crime type "Victimless" was deleted. F i s represent counts of probationers taken in August 1982, June 1983, December 1985 and 1986. Data for 1984 are unavailable.

Table 67
PROBATION POPULATION BY MOST SERIOUS CRIME TYPE, AGE, AND SEX, 1986

Crime

Age

Men

00-21 22-39 40-98 Unk

Age

Rbmen

Total % 00-21 22-39 40-98

Unk Total

Gmd
% Total %

Violent Personal Non-Violent Personal
property Drug Sales Drug Possession Alcohol Other

874 328 5,550 128 625 1,215 999

5,352 11,648 16,086 1,772 6,528 13,569 3,806

1,696 4,096 2,706
242 1,020 5,067 1,151

58 7,980 9% 130 870

184 16,256 19%

21

149

115 24,457 29% 1,244 5,921

13 2,155 3%

23 377

60 8,233 10% 103 1,642

162 20,013 24% 164 1,389

37 5,993 7% 203 950

208 2 1 1,254 68 270 422 265

4 1,220 8% 2 193 1% 26 8,445 54% 0 468 3% 8 2,023 13% 12 1,987 13% 6 1,424 9%

9,200 16,449 32,W 2,623 10,256 22,000 7,417

Total Reported

9,719 58,761 15,978 629 85,087 100% 1,896 11,298 2,508

58 15,760 100% 100,847 100%

Note: Due to rounding, percentages do not always total 100%. Figures represent counts of pmbationers taken in December, 1986.
Sourcc: GDC
Figure 33
PROBATION POPULATION
BY CRIME TYPE. 1986
I

Table 68
PROBATION POPULATION BY CRIME CATEGORY, AGE, AND SEX, 1986

Crimes by Group

Age 00-21

Men 40-98 Unk

Age Total % 00-21

Women 40-98 Unk Total

Grand Total

Homicide Abortion Bodiiy Injury & Re1 Off Arson & Rel Off Damage of Property Burglary and Rel Off Forgery and Rel Off Theft Robbery Sexual Offenses Obsenity Crimes Treason & Re1 Off Crimes Involving Govt Falsifications Obstruct Law Enforcement Disorderly Conduct Gambling & Rel Off Cruelty to Children Crimes with Guns Invasion Privacy Racketeering Drug Abuse Offenses Auto Crimes Revenue & Contraband Misc. Felonies Misdemeanors

169 0
775 75 105 344
432 999
89 403
1 0 88 24 18 9 84 42 145 9 9 1,230 2,421 7 192 8,311

4

483 1%

0

2 0%

13 2,890 3%

4

342 0%

3

832 1%

26 7,644 9%

23 3,123 4%

27 7,343 9%

9 1,384 2%

6 1,183 1%

0

3 0%

0

3 0%

3

168 0%

1

94 0%

0

115 0%

0

124 0%

0

111 0%

2

200 0%

2

490 1%

1

99 0%

1

14 0%

65 9,621 11%

59 8,307 10%

0

10 0%

5

773 1%

375 39,714 47%

Total Reported

9,721 58,750 15,981 629 85,081 100% 1,897 11,302 2,509

58 15,766 100% 100,847 100%

Note: Due to rounding, percentages do not always total 100%. Figures represent counts taken in December, 1986.
Source: GDC

Table 69
ACTIVE PROBATIONERS ON FIRST-OFEENDER STATUS, 1982 - 1986

On 1st Off Stat Not on 1st Off Stat Total Reported Reports not Received TOTAL

6,812 42,369 49,181
0 49,181

13.9% 10,129 15.8% 86.1% 53,809 84.2% 100.0% 63,938 100.0%
349 64,287

Note: Due to rounding, percentages do not always total 100%. Figures represent counts of probationers taken in August 1982, June 1983, December 1985 and 1986.

Source: GDC

- 12,544 15.7% 13,382 15.4% - 67,385 84.3% 73,718 84.6%

- 79,929 100.0% 87,100 100.0%

10,203

13,747

90,132

100,847

Table 70
FIRST-OFFENDER BY AGE AND SEX, 1986

First Offender

Age

Men

00-21 22-39 40-98 Unk

Total

he

Women

% 00-21 22-39 40-98 Unk Total

Grand % Total

On 1st-Offender Status

2,481 6,383 1,010 33 9,907 14% 543 2,443

Not on kt-Offender Status 6,089 44,028 12,423 529 63,069 86% 1,111 7,730

485 1,764

4 3,475 25% 13,382 44 10,649 75% 73,718

Total Reported Not Reported

8,570 50,411 13,433 562 72,976 100% 1,654 10,173

1,151 8,339 2,548 67 12,105

243 1,129

2,249 260

48 14,124 100% 10 1,642

87,100 13,747

Total

9,721 58,750 15,981 629 85,081

1,897 11,302 2,509

58 15,766

100,847

Note: Due to rounding, percentages do not always total 100%. Figures represent counts of probationers taken in December, 1986. "NOT REPOFTED indicates reports not received by GDC.
Being sentenced under the First Offender Act does not necessarily imply that a probationer is a first-time offender. Any violator may ask to be sentenced under the First Offender Act as one of several different options open to them. Occasionally, persons with one or more prior convictions will be sentenced under this act. These data should be viewed as only an estimation of the number of first time violators of first offenders on active probation caseloads.
Source: GDC

IV PARDONS
AND

INTRODUCTION
The executive clemency powers of the State of Georgia are vested exclusively in the State Board of Pardons and Paroles. The Board is composed of five members appointed by the Governor for seven-yearterms, subject to confirmation by the State Senate. Each year the Board elects one of its members to serve as Chairman.
The Board was established in 1943 with its authority established in the Georgia Constitution. Its existence ensures that the Executive Branch of government has a discretionary role in criminaljustice. Thus in Georgia'sjustice system, the Board provides some of the checks and balances deemed necessary by the framers of the Constitution.
The Board is empowered to grant or deny clemency to inmates incarcerated for violation of the state's criminal laws. It has Constitutional authority to grant paroles, pardons, and reprieves, to commute and remit sentences, and to restore civil and political rights. It has authority and staff to investigate cases and to supervise persons granted conditional clemency.
Before the Board considers an inmate for parole, it conducts investigations. Detailed investigative reports become a part of the Board's case file, which is separate from files maintained by the Department of Corrections.
Initially, a parole officer studies arrest and court records and may talk with arresting officers, court officials, victims and witnesses to prepare a legal investigation report on the details of an inmate's current offense and a summary of any prior offenses in the same county.
Subsequently, a parole officer interviews the inmate and completes a personal history statement questionnaire. The inmate is asked, among other things, where he has resided, attended school, names and locations of family members, whom he has chosen as references, where he plans to live and work, and what his own account is of his crime. A Social Investigation is also conducted which includes interviews with persons mentioned in the personal history statement.
Before any inmate is paroled, the Board reviews a Parole Review Summary from the Department of Corrections. The summary provides data on the inmate's behavior, attitude, physical status, mental and emotional condition, participation in activities, and performance in work and training programs while incarcerated. At its discretion,the Board may request detailed psychological and/or psychiatric opinions
before considering a case. Allinformationgenerated by parole
officers and other officials, which become a matter of record within the Board of Pardons and Paroles, are used to prepare summaries of Board actions.
Paroles are granted based on Parole Decision Guidelines that were established to assist the Board in making consistent and accurate assessments of the factors that will affect each prospective parolee's chances for success upon release. Excluded from Guideline Decisions are life sentences and sentences for armed robbery.

The Board initially identifies the crime severity level of the individual. The crime committed is ranked from Level I to
VII, with VII being the most severe. Those ranked in the
higher severity categories will serve longer. The next area of consideration is parole success factors. These include age at first commitment, prior convictions (juvenileand adult), prior incarceration since age 17, parole or probation failure, use, possession, or attempt to obtain heroin or opiates, whether current offenses involved burglary or forgery, whether fully employed during six months prior to current offense, and other factors.
From these weighted factors, along with the severity level, the Board calculates the individual's parole success likelihood score. This score, along with the crime severity level, is inserted into a guidelines chart which indicates the actual time the inmate should serve. The Board reviews these data, and if approved, the inmate is advised of an expected release date. The inmate i's released on this date provided the Board receives no serious disciplinary reports on the individual prior to the release date. If the length of time to be served, as determined by the Board, is greater than the actual sentence length, the inmate will serve the sentence issued by the court. In no case will the Board add time to an inmate's sentence.
Board of Pardons and Paroles Data
The Board of Pardons and Paroles collects its own data, compiling it for internal function requirements, as well as making it available to the criminal justice community as needed. It reflects not only workload, but certain qualitative factors concerning the activity of the Board.
PROFILE OF PARDONS AND PAROLES
Pardon and Parole data are compiled on a fiscal year basis at the end of June rather than at the end of December. Table 71 provides all available pardon and parole data from 1982 to 1986.
1984and 1986are highlighted as peak years for Parole Board activity. There were 8,021 parole releases in 1984 and 9,214 in 1986.
1984 and 1986 were peak years for pardons, with 129 and 127 pardons issued respectively.
Most of the data indicate considerable variance in the amount of activity during the five year period. One noticeable trend is the decrease in the number of parole cases denied. A major factor in this decrease is the increasing inmate population forcing fewer denials of parole and the release of more prisoners. The high figure for special releases in 1982 (2,715) is also the result of the need to reduce critical population levels in the prison system. Use of a more scientific approach, the parole decision guidelines, has helped to make the release of prisoners in overcrowding situations more systematic and has reduced the need for mass releases of prisoners.

Table 71
PROFILE OF PAROLE BOARD ACTIVITY, 1982 - 1986

Parole Conditional Transfer to Detainer Youthful Offender Conditional Release Commutation to Time Served Remission to Probation Supervised Reprieve Reprieve and Conditional Commutation Other Release Action Special Release

Total Released by Board

Revocation of Parole

375

Revocation of Youthful Offender Conditional Release 318

Cancellation of Supervised Reprieve

-

Cancellation of Reprieve and Conditional Commutation -

Other Revocation and Cancellation Special Release

38

Total Returns to Prison Board

73 1

Parole Case Denied Discharge from Parole Youthful Offender Unconditional Release Restoration of Civil and Political Rights
A) Upon Discharge from Parole B) Upon Application Pardon Medical or Compassionate Reprieve Commutation Reducing Sentence (but not resulting in release) Visitor Interview in Central Office Inmate Interview at Institution Preliminary Revocation Hearing Final Revocation Hearing Other Board Actions Jail Credit

Total Other Actions by Board Total Board Activity Total Inmates at End of Reporting Period

9,'306 15,129 14,788

Parole Board Releases Under Supervision at End of Reporting Period (Youth Offenders)

Total Parole Board Releases Under Supervision
Case Reviewed Under Parole Guidelines A) Cases Reviewed Early in Confinement B) Cases Reviewed Month of Eligibility C) Cases Deviating from Guidelines
Lifers Considered for Parole
Lifers Granted Parole Lifers Granted Parole at First Consideration

Prepared by Research and Evaluation
* Breakouts not available
Note: "Y.O." = Youth Offenders.
Data are compiled in June of the applicable year.
Source: State Board of Pardons and Paroles

1,122
9,418 18,455 15,589

1,578
19,111 28,710 15,514

2,091
18,054 27,351 16,415

2,102
18,860 30,176 17,068

v STATEMErn
FROM
SENIOR
OF'F'ICIALS

MICHAEL J. BOWERS
Attorney General, State of Georgia
Attorney General Bowers was educated at the U.S. Military Academy, Stanford University, and the University of Utah. After service in the Air Force, he attended the University of Georgia Law School. A member of the State Law Department since 1974, he became Georgia's fifty-first Attorney General in 1981.

Today the criminaljustice system and we who serve in it face more and greater challenges than at any time in our recent history.
The most insidious problem remains drug trafficking, a multibillion dollar enterprise without conscience. It is primarily through the dedication of the men and women serving in law enforcement that inroads are being made to cut out malignancy; unfortunately, the extent of our successes simply points out the enormity of the problem. While it is important to stop the flow of drugs by going after the source of supply, I believe it is equally important, and maybe more so, to attack the demand. Society must make drug use unfashionable, and the message should be "if you use drugs, you will pay the penalty." There is no such thing as the recreational use of drugs, and the move a few years ago to ''decriminalize" marijuana use was an absolutely wrong signal to send to our young people.
Another challenge we must meet is how to deal with juvenile offenders. While I do not presume to have all the answers in addressingthis problem, it is surely obvious to all that if we lose at this stage we can next expect to deal with children

when they become adult offenders, and statistics tell us that surely will happen.
A third critical problem is in housing those convicted of crimes. Both state and local institutions are being stretched to capacity, and construction cannot keep pace with convictions. Nowhere in the criminal justic system is the tension greater than where the desire of society to segregate criminals runs head on into the reality of paying for the means to do so. Until we can reduce significiantly the number of crimes committed, there are really only two avenues available: increase expenditures to build facilities to house more offenders, and seek alternatives to confinement for certain offenses and offenders.
These and other problems facing us not mentioned here must be addressed; they will not leave of their own accord. Fortunately, as history records, we are at our best when facing adversity. I am proud to be a part of those men and women in the criminaljustice system who daily display their dedication in their deeds; through your commitment, we will meet the challenges facing us and prevail.

THOMAS 0 . MARSHALL
Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia
Thomas 0.Marshall received his B.A. degree from the United States Naval Academy and earned his law degree at the University of Georgia. He was appointed a member of the SupremeCourt of Georgia in 1977and now serves as Chief Justice of that court.

In 1986 for the first time in Georgia's history, the state's juvenile justice leaders and practitioners were assembled by the Governor at the Governor's conference on Juvenile Justice for the sole purpose of planning to build a juvenile justice system for the future. If given the proper attention and focus, few tasks facing Georgians and the justice community hold the promise for improving the quality of life in our state as that of improvement of our system of juvenile justice. The reason for this should be obvious - the personalities, values, ethics, skills, and knowledge of our children are still being formed and are more malleable than those of adults. Thus, our chances of altering patterns of destructive behaviour are greater with juveniles than with adults.
An effective and responsive juvenile justice system may be Georgia's most effective long-range tool in reducing the problems of jail and prison overcrowding - problems which currently require the expenditure of millions of dollars annually and which consume the time of state and county officials in litigation in federal courts. Additionally, increasing the safety of our citizenry is not only important as a goal in its own right, but also &ts our ability to attract and retain industry and to provide for the economic security of all Georgians. Finally, it has become increasingly important for us tosalvage the lives of each and every one of our children and to insure that they become productive members of our society. As an increasing proportion of our population grows old, today's youth will be tomorrow's work force - a work force upon which each of us will depend for the economic health of our nation.
Fortunately, the recommendations from the Governor's Conference established an excellent blueprint for change. Among the most important actions recommended by the Conference were:

A. Additional emphasis in funding should be given to community-based treatment programs as alternatives to incarceration for nonviolent offenders. Some examples of these types of programs include: intensive probation, whichcostsless than half the amount per day required to keep a young offender in a DYS hcility; tutorial programs to upgrade basic academic skills; money and symbolic (community works) restitution programs, and family counseling programs. Development of additional alternative programs, such as a temporary emergency shelter in all areas of the state for status offenders and minor offenders who do not require secure pretrial confinement are also needed.
B. Funding is needed for a statewide system of fiill-time juvenile court judgeships in each of Georgia's 45 judicial circuits, giving future consideration to expanding jurisdiction of these courts over the entire family.
C. Mandatory continuing education for all personnel involved in the juvenile justice system.
D. Legislative establishmentof a statewidebody forjuvenile justice policy planning to build consensus and to monitor and measure system goals.
Other significant events affecting Georgia's youth during the year were the legislative requirement that each county establish written child abuse protocols by July 1, 1988 and the initiation of a statewide anti-drug abuse program.
These events and recommendations provide great promise for improving the operation of our entire juvenile justice system. However, the combined support of each sector of the criminal justice community is needed for any of these improvements to be achieved. Whether this consensus can be achieved is a significant challenge facing our state.

JAMES ROBERT (Robbie) HAMRICK
Director, Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Mr. Hamrick received his Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice from Georgia State University. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and a past president of the FBI Academy Associates.
Mr. Hamrick has been actively employed in law enforcement since 1959, when he began his career with the Department of Public Safety. He was appointed as Special Agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation in 1969. On September 4, 1985, Mr. Hamrick was appointed by the Governor and the State Board of Public Safety as Director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

On January 17,1987, nearly 500 Ku Klux Klansmen, members of Klan splinter groups, and their sympathizersharassed and attacked a small multi-racial group of civil rights demonstrators marching in Forsyth County. The attacks were videotaped by media representatives covering the march and citizens throughout the state and nation were outraged by the senseless violence.
Civil rights groups responded by announcing plans for a second march in Forsyth County on January 24th. State and local governments had less than six days to plan for and to ensure the safety of perhaps as many as 10,000 marchers.
As we all know now, more than 20,000 marchers arrived in Forsyth County on the 24th, coming in planes, buses, trains, and private cars from all over the country. A multi-phase security plan was developed during the preceding days by local, state, and federal project officers working with representatives of all levels of government and civil rights organizations. The plan was implemented smoothly by the 1,700 National Guardsmen and 1,000 law enforcement officers posted at the marchers' assembly point, along the march

route, and in the Courthouse Squarewhere the main rally was held.
The planning effort and the cooperation of local, state, and federal agenciespaid off. The march and rally were conducted without interference, although the huge turn-out of marchers made a shambles of the events schedule so carefully drawn up in advance.
In the days that followed, reviews of the operations were conducted.Providinga secure environment for the marchers on January 24th cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, disrupted business and life in general in Forsyth County, and required participating law enforcement agencies and National Guard units to expend tens of thousands of man hours.
On the positive side, the nation and the world learned how Georgians can and do respond to violence and threats of violence by racist terrorists and those of us in the law enforcement community relearned a most valuable lesson: when we work together cooperatively, without concern about who will get the credit for success or the blame for failure, we can handle the biggest problems likely to face us during the remainder of this century.

One constant in the Criminal Justice Community is the ever blowing wind of change. To be successful in our vocation we must remain alert to change, both good and bad, in our society. We must also be able to adapt to these changes through flexibility in our priorities, techniques and training. With only slightly more than a decade remaining until the 21st century, we should reflect on the changes which have taken place in our profession. We must plan for the coming years rather than wait in idle anticipation.
The daily concerns of the Department of Public Safety have remained virtually unchanged. These are of course our department's reasons for existence; traffic law enforcement, maintenance of public order and the interdiction of those using our roadways to commit crime or escape detection. The laws have become more refined as has the criminal, but we remain firmly committed to this basic public safety role.
However, all of us as law enforcement officers also have a duty to set goals and specific priorities for our profession as a whole, at all levels within the state. Of these priorities there are two very important responsibilities that circumstances, as well as the needs of society, require we now face and no longer avoid.These are the reality of terrorism coming to our continent and the organized upgrading of the ethical standards and overall qualifications of those in the service of law enforcement.
The first of these priorities, terrorism, draws ever closer to our streets. At thisttime law enforcement administrators must begin to accept this as a coming reality. Rather than paranoia, premature over-reaction, or a lack of readiness too late, it is decisive calm and detailed research that is in order. Even small departments should be encouraged to study terrorism and familiarize themselves with its effects on public order. Larger departments should expand on such study as well as train personnel in tactics or build upon the training of

COLQNEL CURTIS D. EARP, JR.
Commissioner, Georgia Department of Public Safety
A Distinguished Military Graduate of the ROTC Program at Florida State University, he was commissioned as a Regular Army Officer, Military Police, in August 1960. Colonel Earp is a graduate of the Infantry Officer Basic Course; Airborne, Ranger, and Pathfinder Schools; the Military Police Office Familiarization Course; the Military Police Officer Advanced Course; and the US Army Command and General Staff college. His civilian education includes both a Bachelor and Master of Science degree in criminology from Florida State University.
Colonel Earp assumed duties as Commissioner and Commander, Georgia State Patrol on 3 October 1986.
personnel already in place. Preparation renders regret unnecessary.
In the second area of concern, ethics and standards, we at all levels must participate. From the smallest city to the largest state agency, those of us wearing a badge are obligated to conduct our business in compliance with the law, the Constitution and our oath of office.
The challenges to law enforcement constantly increase. In return we must constantly increase the educational and character standards of those we recruit and maintain in our service. As organized crime grows stronger through the almost infinite wealth of drug traffickers, the morals of our finest officers are at risk. The most devoted, courageous and committed personnel will continue to be required to win our war on crime. The enactment of legislation to require increased educational and pay standards becomes more urgent each year.
Georgia is one of 49 states with minimum standards of certification for law enforcement officers already in place. Due to our highy profiled Peace Officers Standard and Training Council (GPOSTC), who sets the minimum standards, we are one of only four statesto have a de-certificationboard which actively suspends and revokes certified Georgia peace officers for cause. We must pursue this practice (initiated by the legal and medical professions) for other states in order to add credibility to our own profession.
In closing, if we are to expect to be treated as professionals we must accept all of the responsibilities which are part of a profession. Let us take the first steps toward upgrading ourselves by recognizing and meeting the challenges of the future today. Through quality training, the upgrading of our own standards, and professional planning the State of Georgia's criminal justice community will become the standard by which our vocation is measured.

JIMMY TERRELL
President, Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police, Inc.
Jimmy Terrell is a graduate of the University of Georgia with a major in Journalism and a minor in English. He began his law enforcement career in 19n with the University of Georgia Police Department. Chief Terrell assumed his duties as Winder's Chief of Police in January 1980. He has served on the Governor's Task Force on Stress in Law Enforcement and currently serves on the Governor's Committee on Crime and Punishment, on the P.O.S.T. Council and as President of the Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police.

Our foremost interest needs to be juvenile crime. In order to make our criminal justice system work we must place the proper emphasis on our juvenile court system. We learned many years ago that rehabilitation rarely works with adult offenders. However, we have not made the proper effort with our juvenile offenders. We must create a system that earns the respect of the juvenile offender and one that offers him or her some hope. I feel that a strong, improved juvenile system will be the basis for reducing our crime rates as well as our prison population.
In conjunction with our efforts to improve our juvenile system we must also work within our community school systems. As community leaders it should be part of our responsibility to provide law related education topics in our schools or to our Boards of Education. We need to go beyond the subjects of drug and alcohol awareness and present our student with a view of responsible citizens. We need to help place emphasis on remaining in school. As long as Georgia maintains it's high and embarrassing dropout and illiteracy rates, we will continue to have severe crime problems.
There are other areas that we must also direct our attention to and which are critical to the improvement and impact of

our criminal justice system.
The problems with suspects who have been diagnosed as having AIDS or as being AIDS carriers present us with a tremendous problem. We must deal with the problems of isolation, searching,transportationandmedical costs. Our agencies are not prepared for these additional burdens.
Another area is that of mutual aid. Georgia needs a mutual aid law that will allow agencies to go, at the request of other agencies, into other jurisdictions in order to assist as needed. Several states have state-wide mutual aid laws while others still work under regional mutual aid pacts. We must be able to respond at a moment's notice, to a call for assistance with a clear understanding of jurisdiction, liability and responsibility.
Finally, we need to address the problems of frivolous law suits against police officers and law enforcement salaries. There are mechanisms that can be implemented almost immediately that would aid all of us tremendously if we will only work together. It is a necessity that public safety entities, municipal governments and state government sit down together to plan our courses of action. Our public can expect no less.

SHERIFF JOHN ADAMS
President, Georgia Sheriffs Association
Sheriff John Adams of Harris County is President of the Georgia Sheriffs' Association for 1986-87 term. Adams was born and raised in Columbus, Georgia and moved to Harris County in 1970. In 1975 he became a deputy with the Harris County Sheriffs Office. In 1977Adams was elected Sheriff. He is now serving his third term.

There are many problems facing the criminal justice community. Georgia's 159 sheriffs departments deal with these problems at all stages - law enforcement, courts and corrections. But, the number one problem facing every sheriff in the state today is jail overcrowding. Over the past few years, we have seen the numbers increase and today the state of Georgia is in a crisis situation.
In 1982, a backlog of 2000 state prisoners in county jails was considered a crisis situation. Today there are over 2700, with local jails operating at over 100% capacity.
Local sheriffs are screaming for the state to pick up their inmates. The state says we are full and can't take anymore. The local sheriff doesn't have this luxury and he is required by law to accept them.
Either more space in state prisons must be made, or alternatives to incarceration must be used.
Building new prisons is very costly but the people of Georgia have got to realize the crisis concerning jail overcrowding. They must be willing to pay the price of incarcerating our state's criminals for their own protection.
Local sheriffs and local governments are only equipped to run

pre-trial holding facilities, but we are being forced to operate overcrowded prisons.
We must increase the use of alternatives to incarceration. The Department of Corrections has two programs, Intensive Probation Supervision and Home Confinement. Both of these seem to be able to satisfy two goals: providing an alternative to incarceration and punishing criminals for their crimes.
Judges make more decisions affecting jail population than anyone else. They definitely need to recognize the crisis that we are facing today and use other programs that will provide another avenue for punishment rather than confinement.
Every part of the system; law enforcement, prosecutors, defense, judiciary, probation and parole can take actions that
will help alleviatejail overcrowding. AU phases need to begin
communicating and working together as a system so that there will be increased awareness of the impact of one agency's actions on another. The overcrowding is a result of many agencies making decisions on jail admissions and length of confinement. These agencies must participate in developing other solutions to overcrowding.

ROBERT L. DOSS, JR.
Director, Administrative Office of the Courts
Mr. Doss received a Bachelor of Busines Administration degree in Economics and a Master of Science degree in Criminal Justice and Urban Affairs from Georgia State University. He is also a Certified Graduate Fellow of the Institute for Court Management.
He came to the Administrative Office of the Courts in July, 1973, as Assistant Director and has served as Director since September, 1975.

Georgia's coui-ts are responding to the need to know and to share information among themselves and other state agencies by increased use of computers and word processing systems to automate many of their communications, operational, and record keeping tasks. Because hardware has become less expensive and software more attuned to the needs of the courts in recent years, automated data systems are now being utilized more and more to obtain statistical information and compile data to assist courts in performing administrative, research, and planning functions.
During this past year, the Judicial Council established an Electronic Data Processing Committee to advise courts on automation of court procedures by identifying the minimum statewide uniform data elements that should be included in any application of computers in local courts. Several subcommittees are rendering assistance with this substantial project. One subcommittee, composed primarily of judges, is looking at case management applications, with the goal of reducing the time from fding to disposition of cases. Another subcommittee of court clerks and administrators is identifying the particular data elements required in reports to the Georgia Crime Information Center and other state agencies and those needed within the Judicial branch for caseload studies. With careful planning, applicationsof automationin courts could provide needed data for court management uses, statistical state-level needs, and needs of other criminaljustice agencies.
By July of 1986, the SuperiorCourts in seventy-eightcounties were using computer applications in some way. Since that time, a number of additional courts have taken advantage of funds available through federal justice assistance grants to implement measures that will increase court productivity by automating many manual functions, such as warrant tracking, juror selection, case management, monitoring caseflow

and open caseload, managing court information, and contacting victims and witnesses, thereby reducing the time a case is in the system.
The reduced cost of minicomputers and the increasing availability of improved court management software is dramatically changing the administrations of many courts in Georgia. In addition to a number of private vendors who provide automated applications, the state Department of Administrative Services has also been involved in the development of software package (CORTS) which has been tested in one county and which will soon be available for sale to other counties.
Currently, the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) is operating a pilot project in six Georgia counties to test a new case-by-case reporting system to replace the current manual on-site count. The project, which measures cases in terms of time taken for various types of dispositions, will allow local courts to determine causes of case delay, set up standards for case processing, and provide statistical information regarding age of open cases and time from filing to disposition. As a result of this effort, caseload statistics should be more accurate and Ning and disposition data will be gathered and evaluated more efficiently.
In addition, courts are experimenting with new procedures to reduce case processing time by diverting cases from the trail track to other dispute resolution mechanisms. Among these is a panel arbitration project for civil actions with claims of $25,000 or less in the Superior Court of Fulton County, mandatory mediation in custody disputes in domestic relations cases that are filed in DeKalb County superior court, and Atlanta's Neighborhood Justice Center, which resolves disputes which might have otherwise been litigated. A bill offering litigants an opportunity to participate in pre-trial

settlement conferences in the Court of Appeals was introduced in the 1987 legislative session.
Although criminal filings in superior courts increased again in 1986, Georgia judges have reduced the open caseload by 10%since 1981. The average estimated amount of time from filing to disposition in criminal cases decreased by nearly onethird over the same period. Processing time for felony cases fell from an average of 6.3 months in 1981 to 4.4 months in 1985. It is also noteworthy that 89% of criminal appeals reviewed by the Supreme Court in 1986 were affirmed.
During 1986, the AOC also began compilation of quarterly

caseload data for magistrate courts, covering warrants and ordinance violations as well as civil cases.
The rapid pace of automation of Georgia courts stimulated by decreasing costs of available technology and the need to streamline the processing of increasing court workloads has underscored the need for careful planning and selection of software and hardware. The challenge now facing Georgia courts is how to channel the current unplanned growth to minimize costs and provide maximum efficiency for the citizens of Georgia.

WILLIS B. SPARKS, 3rd
Chairman, Prosecuting Attorneys' Council
Willis Sparks was graduated from the University of Georgia in 1956. He received his L.L.B. degree from Mercer University in 1962.
He joined the Macon Circuit District Attorney's Offie in 1976 and was elected District Attarngrin January of 1981. He is now in his seventh year as Macon Circuit District Attorney.

The most obvious, compelling and overwhelming problem in Georgia's criminal justice system is prison overcrowding. Any year that sees an increase in prison space is a good year for the system regardless of anything else, and correspondingly a year in which space remains static must be viewed a bad year despite other accomplishments.
A judicial sentence is the culmination of everything that happens from arrest up through all court proceedings. So great is the overcrowding problem that State officials have devised a parole system currently in operation under which 95 percent of sentences have no legal effect but are mere suggestions to the Parole Board who may release prisoners at will restrained only by their own good sense and public opinion. This is fundamentally unacceptable.
Decades ago prisoners were paroled because they served some specified portion of a judge's sentence and because they convinced the Parole Board, if released, they would not likely commit future crimes. Now the Board is compelled weekly to release prisoners who have not served any significant portion of their sentences and who will in all likelihood commit new crimesas soon as they hit the street.

Overcrowding results from years of inaction in providing space and in not finding cheaper ways to house non-violent offenders. The problem is not peculiar to Georgia, and the Harris administration is cunently making some substantial progress.
Perhaps no problem is as frustrating to the public as delays in carrying out death sentences. The problem in Georgia is worsened by the Butts County logjam. Under present Georgia law every habeas of every death row inmate must be heard in the County where the prisoner is confined. Since every death row inmate is confined in Butts county, the Superior court of Butts County is charged with the staggering task of reviewing and ruling on every habeas of every inmate on Georgia's death row.
If the law wuld be altered so as to provide that a habeas would be reviewed by a judge in the County where the crime was committed, perhaps the process could be shortened by three years.

DAVID C. EVANS, COMMISSIONER
Georgia Department of Corrections
Commissioner Evans was educated at Georgia State University and East Tennessee State University. He began his career withule State of Georgia in 1965 working in key positions with the Georgia State Budget Bureau, Department of Human Resources. Mr. Evans has served as Commissioner for the Department of Corrections since 1976.

During the last year, corrections has begun to resemble the Dow Jones Industrial List - it has been very bullish. The prison system has seen an increase in its population unlike any year in its history.
On any given date, we are operating at approximately 110% of capacity. This is severe when you consider that this extra 10% represents over 1700 inmates. Combine this with the numbers of inmates awaiting transfer from county jails, and the figures are staggering.
To illustratethis point, if we were to build today for only those over capacity inmates and those in countyjails, we would have to build five new facilities. At $25,000,000 each, with a construction timetable of approximately two years, it is easy to see that we would be in an expensive catch-up building process.
But we are in better shape than many other states . . . in a
number of ways. Several correctional agencies which chose not to attempt any constructionat all during the seventiesnow find themselves with populations exceeding 175% capacity. Others find their entire systems under federal scrutiny. We, in Georgia, have at least been able to convince the General

Assembly that ongoing construction and expansion is essential to maintaining our operational independence from such court action.
In addition, we have begun establishing a system of minimum security facilities throughout the state which will be designated for those ofknders convicted of alcohol related traffic offenses, habitual traffic violators, and the lesser probation violators. By simply eliminating these short-term minor offenders from the mainstream of the inmate population we will be able to utilize our available bedspace for those offenders for which it was designed.
By combining this new facet of alternative sentencing with the already established programs of intensive probation supervision, diversion centers, and "Shock Incarceration", the Georgia Department of Corrections hopes to provide the judiciary with an array of sanction alternatives.
We are continuing to request construction funds, for our efforts affect all areas of the criminal justice system. Until crime becomes less attractive, and alcohol and drug related incidents begin to diminish, added bedspace and workable alternatives to incarceration will be the primary concern to this department, and thereby a major concern to law enforcement, prosecutors, and the judiciary.

WAYNE SNOW, JR. Chairman, State Board of Pardons and Paroles
Mr. Snow received an A.B. Degree from the University of Georgia in 1958 and earned his L.L.B. Degree there in 1960.
He served21 years in the General Assembly; for 11 years he was Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
Mr. Snow was appointed to a full seven-year term on the fivemember Board of Pardons and Paroles by the Governor in 1983 and was elected chairman in 1985.

The need for more prison space became apparent during 1986 as admissions soared to a record level, raising the inmate population and the backlog of sentenced offenders in county jails. It also became clear there was a need to provide lowercost minimum-security prisons for low-risk inmates and to divert more such offenders from prison altogether.
The State Board of Pardons and Paroles applauded the leadership shown by Governor Joe Frank Harris when he called the
State Fiscal Affairs Committee into session in December 1986
to approve a transfer of funds to create 600 new minimumsecurity prison beds by early 1987. This involved renovating the Bostick Building at Central State Hospital in Milledgeville and expanding a county correctional institution.
Inmate overpopulation flared again ironically while the Parole Board was releasing more than ever. During Fiscal Year 1986 the Board released 9,214 inmates, two thousand more than during the previous fiscal year.

An additional 3,675 inmates completed 'their sentences in prison and were discharged, while 108 were released through court order. Therefore, the total exiting prison was l2,997.
Compare the above exit total with the figure for FY 1986 admissions - 13, 716 - an all-time high. This figure breaks down into 7,483 new sentences by the courts, 4,157 probation revocations by the courts, and 2,076 parole revocations by the Board.
We expect to salvage more backsliding parolees when the Parole Board's first transitional center opens in early 1989. The 1987 General Assembly approved bond funding of this new Atlanta center, construction of which will begin in the latter part of 1987.
Discipline and counseling in the center will guide more new parolees to a steadier start. Other parolees, fresh from a revocation hearing, may enter the center for a last chance to do a turnabout in conduct rather than be returned to prison.

MINUARD C. Mickey) McGUIRE
Director, Governor's Office of Highway Safety
Mr. McGuire received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Talladega College in Alabama and his Master of Science Degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Florida State University in Tallahassee.
Mr. McGuire began his career with the State of Georgia in 1973 and was appointed by the Governor as Director of the Governor's Office of Highway Safety in 1983.

The information contained in this year's publication provides a diversity of information, opinions, and views concerning the status of today's criminal justice system. Perhaps less evident, yet of equal significance, is the continuing search for new approaches to combat the problems facing the criminal justice community by professionals and all individuals interested in assuring the protection of the health, safety and welfare of Georgia Citizens. The pervasiveness of these problems may not be new, however, their nature and complexity require constant examination and corresponding innovative attempts to resolve.
Current efforts by the Governor's Office of Highway Safety reflect this activity. Recent reductions of 18 percent and nine percent respectively in the number of DUl fatalities and motor vehicle accidents involving alcohol during 1985 are encouraging, but far from acceptable to Georgia citizens who remain exposed to this tragedy. This year, research has been initiated to determine the incidence of drugs in driving under the influence cases, and methods for detectingthem. Further, pilot programs have been initiated to provide answers to questions including the number of "problem drinkers" in the driving

population, what impact judicially sanctioned assessments for DUI first offenders and corresponding intensive group interventionprograms for those evaluatedas problem drinkers may have on the DUI problem, as well as whether these programs can be supported by fees paid by the offenders.
Georgia continues to experience an average of over 160,000 accidents, 60,000 injuries, and 1,300 fatalities from motor vehicles each year. Given recent national activity regarding new initiatives in combatting driving under the influence, large truck safety, mandatory seat belt use laws, and raising the current 55 mile per hour speed limit on selected rural sections of interstate highways, Georgiahas been challenged to develop effective solutions that accurately reflect our State's unique character.
One of Georgia's chief assets is the criminal justice community's diversity of approach toward solving these problems. This year, the Governor's Office of Highway Safety looks forward to joining other members of the criminaljustice community in demonstrating that the tragedy of deaths and injuries caused by motor vehicle accidents is unacceptable in Georgia.

VI APPENDIX

Appendix DATA ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES
In order to control for population differences, and thus make descriptions and comparisons between jurisdictions and over time more accurate and meaningful, Index crimes and arrests are often expressed as a rate, i.e., specifically, the number of crimes or arrests reported for each 100,000 people.
Formula for calculating crime and arrrest rates:

Crime (arrest)

rate for

-

Number

of

crimes

(arrests)

X 100,000

jurisdiction Total population of jurisdiction or group or group

The necessity of controlling for population differences can be seen in the following example. In 1983, Any County reported 95 murders, while Other County had 53. On the basis of this fact alone, a casual observer would probably conclude that murder is much more of a problem in Any County than Other County, there being twice as many. Such a conclusion would not be accurate, however, because the populations of the two counties were not considered. Supposethat Any County has 150,000people, yielding a murder rate per 100,000people of 63.3, while Other County's population is only 40,000, producing a murder rate per 100,000people of 132.5. Clearly, other factors must be considered; however, the rate allows for general comparisons between jurisdictions.

Another measure, the annual percent change in the number or rate of Index crimes or arrests, is a comparative statistic useful for identifying trends in yearly data.

Formula for calculating percent change:

Percent change over = X2-X1

previous year

X1

Where: X1 = Number, rate of crimes, arrests in previous year. X2 = Number, rate of crimes, arrests in present year.

POPULATION PROJECTIONS
County and statewide population figures used in Georgia Criminal Justice Data are based on projections for 1990 population made by the Georgia Office of Planning and Budget (OPB). Population estimates for 1982-1986 are based upon the 1990 projection and the 1980 U.S. Census figures. The following formula is used for each year:
+ 1986 Population = [(I990 Estimate - 1980 Census Population) x Y] 1980
population
Where: Y = 0.6 for 1986 (.5 for 1985 etc.)
The following population estimates were used for each county in 1986:

COUNTY Appling Atkinson Bacon Baker Baldwin Banks Barrow Bartow Ben Hill Berrien Bibb Bleckley Brantley Brooks Bryan Bulloch Burke Butts Calhoun Camden Candler Carroll Catoosa Charlton Chatham Chattahoochee Chattooga Cherokee Clarke Clay Clayton Clinch Cobb Coffee Colquitt Columbia Cook Coweta Crawford Crisp Dade Dawson Decatur DeKalb Dodge Dooly Dougherty Douglas Early Echols Effingham Elbert Emanuel

I986 Population Estimate
16,943 6,411 10,029 3,952 38,655 9,499 23,779 44,415 17,822 14,445 157,253 11,042 10,301 16,246 12,843 36,983 20,8-14 15,264 5,575 14,684 7,977 62,253 40,893 8,295 213,719 22,830 22,191 66,129 78,464 3,752 175,193 6,842 344,277 29,087 37,141 53,317 14,179 43,142 9,278 20,697 13,297 5,356 27,470 518,475 17,548 11,386 109,849

COUNTY Evans Fannin Fayette Floyd Forsyth Franklin Fulton Gilmer Glascock Glynn Gordon Grady Greene Gwinnett Habersham Hall Hancock Haralson Harris Hart Heard
Henry Houston Irwin Jackson Jasper Jeff Davis Jefferson Jenkins Johnson Jones Lamar Lanier Laurens Lee Liberty Lincoln
Long Lowndes Lumpkin Macon Madison Marion McDuffie McIntosh Meriwether Miller Mitchell Monroe Montgomery Morgan Murray Muscogee

1986 Population
Estimate 8,985 15,214 49,282 81,931 34,498 16,090
621,144 12,079 2,467 57,970 33,012 2 1,050 12,323
244,454 26,911 83,340 10,086 19,335 17,997 19,625
7,235 46,735 85,818
9,536 27,367
8,797 12,513 19,294 9,349 9,132 19,406 13,026 5,968 39,799 15,836 48,648 7,257 5,233 74,335 11,639 14,952 20,049 5,481 20,325 8,507 22,447 7.451 22,735 16,691 7,278 12,670 23,581 178,537

COUNTY Newton Oconee Oglethorpe Padding Peach Pickens Pierce Pike Polk Pulaski Putnam Quitman Rabun Randolph Richmond Rockdale Schley Screven Seminole Spalding Stephens Stewart Sumter Talbot Taliaferro Tattnall Taylor Telfair Terrell Thomas Ti ft Toombs Towns Treutlen Troup lbrner lkiggs Union Upson Walker Walton Ware Warren Washington Wayne Webster Wheeler White Whitfield Wilcox Wilkes Wilkinson Worth
Total

=PbpuEstimate 38,872 15,734 9,613 3 1,347 2 1,266 12,535 13,339 10,299 33,596 9,476 11,503 2,457 11,263 10,317 197,382 50,557 3,655 15,139 10,118 52,126 22,233 5,780 3 1,226 6,737 1,953 19,800 8,069 11,688 12,708 40,676 35,947 24,496 6,019 6,357 53,037 10,084 10,142 10,556 26,914 58,479 35,898 39,177 6,776 20,028 22,367 2,426 5,506 11,131 70,561 8,088 11,537 11,130 19,993

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