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1997 UCR SUMMARY REPORT
Georgia Uniform Crime Reporting Program

This annual report focuses on index crimes and arrests reported by state and local law enforcement agencies throughout Georgia. Additional data, stored in GCIC computerized files , can b~ retrieved for special purpose reports upon request. Contact Willene White-Smith at (404) 244-2840 or fax your inquiries to (404) 244-2743. You may also visit our web site at: www.ganet.org/gbi
Milton E. Nix, Jr. Director, G.B.I.

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Murder Rape Robbery Aggravated Assault

PROFILE OF REPORTED INDEX CRIMES, 1997

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563 2,195 14,889 25 ,293

0.1% 0.5% 3.7% 6.2%

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7.5 29 .3 198 .9 337.9

Burglary Larceny Motor Vehicle Theft

76 ,268 245,194
42 ,508

18.7% 60 .3% 10.4%

1018 .8 3275.4
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Internet Address...............................................................1
Comparison of Index Crimes &Arrests............................4
Reported Arrests for Index Crimes by Age ...................... .4
Profile of Persons Arrested by Age, Sex, and Race.........5 Reported Metropolitan ~tatistical ~rea Index Crimes .......6 Juvenile Submissions for Part I & Part II Arrests .............?
{18 Years of Age and Under} Juvenile Arrest Dispositions.............................................8 Law Enforcement Officers Killed ......................................9 Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted ...............................10 Family Violence ...............................................................11 Family Violence- Weapons Used....................................12 Family Violence - Aggressor to Victim Relationship........ 12 Family Violence - Aggressor by Sex................................13 Family Violence- Police Action Taken .............................14 Georgia's Law Enforcement Personnel............................15
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COMPARISON OF REPORTED INDEX CRIMES AND ARRESTS, 1993 1997

Rape
Burglary Motor Vehicle Theft

2,287 913 16,436 4,446 28,157 15,556

2,223 14,878 25,650

769 3,989 13,857

2,423 814 14,479 28,058 15,384

2,250 750 14,664 3,754 27,550 13,823

2,195 816 3,716
25,293 14,152

85,385 10,311 232,907 39,147 39,479 4,166

70,561 243,973
36,220

9,528 40,513 3,903

72,795 9,274 258,224 43,468 39,970 4,262

77,851 9,322 275,931 42,817 44,497 4,350

76,268 245,194 42,508

8,796 38,789 4,455

016 17-21 2229 3039 40-49 50+

REPORTED ARRESTS FOR INDEX CRIMES, 1993 1997, BY AGE GROUP

11,469 16,798 18,924 18.888 6,638 2,632

15.2% 22.3% 25.1% 25.1% 8.8% 3.5%

13,350 16,369 16,721 17,494 6,751 2,476

18.2% 22.4% 22.9% 23.9%
9.2% 3.4%

13,251 18,005 17,316 18,966 7,663 2,628

17.0% 23.1% 22.2% 24.4% 9.8'% 3.4%

12,078
16,756 17,018 7,570
2,548

16.0% 25.7% 22.2% 22.6% 10.0%
3.4%

10,875 17,544 15,338 16,951 7,997 2,680

15.2% 24.6% 21.5% 23.7% 11.2%
3.8%

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Type of Crime

PROFILE OF PERSONS ARRESTED BY SPECIFIC AGE, SEX, RACE, 1997

AGE

16and Under

1721

2229

30-39

40-49

Murder Forcible Rape Robbery Aggravated Assault

70 93 440 1,051

198 197 1,268 2,567

186 235 959 3,640

100 189 746 3,986

69 69 243 2,020

ITotal Violent Crime Burglary Larceny Motor Vehicle Theft
l~otal Property Crime

1,654 1,863 6,436
922
9,221

4,230 2,269 9,672 1,373
13,314

5,020 1,750 7,558 1,010
10,318

5,021 2,009 9,167
754
11,930

2,401 747
4,550 299
5,596

ITotallndex Crime

!! 10,875

17,544

15,338

16,951

7,997

50+
38 33 60 888
1,019 158
1,406 97
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!Type of Crime

SEX

Male

Female

Murder Forcible Rape Robbery Aggravated Assault

555 803 3,417 10 ,772

106 13
299 3,380

ITotal Violent Crime Burglary Larceny Motor Vehicle Theft

15,547 8,009
26 ,473 3,952

3,798 787
12 ,316 503

!Total Property Crime

38,434

13,606

ITotallndex Crime

53,981

17,404

NOTE: 32 ARREST REPORTS DID NOT SPECIFY RACE

RACE

White

Non-White

181 207 627 3,617

480 609 3,089 10,534

4,632 3 ,593 14,888 1,515

14,712 5,203
23,870 2,940

19,996

32,013

24,628

46,725

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Metropolitan Statistical Area

%of County Population Total

Murder Rape RobMry

Aggrav. Assault

Motor Burglary Larc,ny Vehicle
Theft

Albany, GA MSA
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Athens. GA MSA
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MSATCIDI Allanta, GA MSA
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Dougherty
Lee
Clarl<e Madison Oconee

103.989 20,120

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53

... tu_1ot ZA'lto 10

95,767 24,266 21.425

12

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0

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348 339

7

21

SSI 310

299 565

0

3

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Barrow Bartow carroll Cherolcee Clayton Cobb Coweta Dekalb Douglas Fayette Forsyth Fulton G"NiMet1 Henry Newton
Paulding Pickens Rocl<da le Spa lding Wallon

141,411 2.K 12

36,510

1

65,434

2

81,233

4

11 5,499

3

206 ,779

12

5 4 0 .012

13

71 ,933

5

613,053

55

84.737

2

80 ,5 8 3

1

6 0 ,2 9 7

2

733,247

173

460,538

11

8 3 ,6 2 3

3

51 ,325

3

59,119

0

17,275

0

6 5 ,8 2 0

5

60,494

9

47,428

0

3,534,810 U.S% 31M

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3 9 37 13 51 142 12 214 15 1 8 534 84 27 7 14 0 12 21 13
1,217

302
22 46 45 15 413 669 44 2,616 58 21 15 5,625 513 44 28
7 0 32 41 8
10,210

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87 136 280 101 538 1,019 109 1,358 214 22 201 8,579 514 193 70 97 12 223 274 199
14,221

2,001 4,442

508

169

370

29

2,1711
2,035 9
69
2,113
425 655 748 438 2,645 4,065 466 10,449 488 233 550 12,432 3,848 730 411 355 51 668 383 31l0

4,112
8,008 15
244
1,217
1,076 807
2,280 1,649 8,515 15.702 1,336 28,140 2,585 1,338 1,622 42,562 14,669 1,787 1.274
926 163 2,332 1,342 1,151

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118 248 236 192 1,751 2,435 193 8,987 329 118 287 11,774 2,131 260 134 145
18 235 173 133

40,4113 131,2511 20,107

7 ,7 0 0 598
1,2111
11 .657 25
370
12,0S21
1,732 1,903 3,630 2,411 13,925 24,045 2,165 51 ,819 3 ,6 8 9 1,734 2,685 81 ,679 21 ,770 3 ,0 4 4 1,927 1,577
244 3,507 2,243 1,8 94
227,8231

Augusta, GA-SC MSA
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Columbia Richmond
Caloosa Dade Walker

84,800 207 ,991

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25

80

201,701 1.1% 21

17

49,313 14,758 63.564

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2

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4

127,a5 2.5% 0

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31

53

564

267

505 320

15

71

3

19

4

39

22 120

394 1,824

140

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8 ,039 0,113

1,828 1,011

182 1,286

103

40

106

14

330 1,239

82

552 2,131

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2.462 11 ,1 07
13,501
1,660 184
1.698
3,5421

Columbus, GAALMSA
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Challa hoochee Harris Muscogee

16,598 20 ,9 9 5 198,523

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2

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15

30

231,111 4.7% 10 35

5

10

1

12

476 437

412 450

37

1

1

62

107

19

2 .011 9 .087

937

2,110 0,1H 057

56 208 12,993
11,2671

Macon. GA MSA

Bibb Houston Jones Peach Twiggs

164,245 104,337 22.969 24,132
10,491

25

62

3

41

1

0

9

0

0

368 583

120 351

3

27

33 139

2

2

2,522 1,146
123 194 45

9 ,656 4 ,232
286 380
32

1,441 334 21 47 1

14,637 6 ,227
462 802
82

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,liSA Total Savannah, GA MSA
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Bryan Chalham Effingham

U0,174 1.4% 20 113

521 1,012

21,155

0

238,959

22

3 2 ,3 5 9

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5 ,075,675 67.8% 424

1 67 2
711
1,676

2

25

629

734

-2

22

711

13,175 17.939

4,030 14,111 1,144

153 2 ,747
72

422 8 ,9 6 4
324

34 1,297
31

z.m 0,710 1,312
55.108 190,320 37,459

22,2101
637 14,460
453
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3 1 6 , 101

Total Non MSAs

2 .410,325 32.2% 139 519

1,714 7,354

21,160 54,874 5,049

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Total State

7,488,000 100% 563 2,195 14,889 25,293

76,261 245,194 42,508

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JUVENILE SUBMISSIONS for PART I & PART II ARRESTS: 1991-1997 {UNDER 18 Years of Age}

2

2

3

3

24

27

32

54

6

7

56

169

114

1001

9

3

4

25

13

13

32

59

21

30

57

85

51

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TOTAL

24608

29555

32698

37701

36760

50819

48987

JUVENILE ARREST DISPOSITIONS, 1991 1997

1992

6132

28270

1685

177

2514

38778

1993

8543

29755

2255

201

2557

43311

1994

9704

31853

740

160

3643

46100

1995

8961

30570

866

215

3853

44465

1996

7207

29103

757

214

4429

41710

1997

13377

23740

737

287

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During 1997, there were three Jaw enforcement officers who lost their lives in the line of duty in Georgia. The following officers will always be remembered for the ultimate sacrifice that they gave in order to make the jurisdictions that they served a safer haven for citizens in Georgia:

Officer Victor M. Pimentel Officer Michael D. Stephenson Officer John Richard Sowa

Hinesville Police Dept. Feb. 22, 1997

Richmond Co. BOE * July 16, 1997

Atlanta Police Dept.

Oct. 12, 1997

*BOE - Board of Education

...Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.
Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS ASSAULTED DURING1997

TYPE of ACTIVITY:
Disturbances Burglaries Robberies Attempted Arrests Civil Disorder Transport Prisoners Suspicious Persons Ambush Mentally Ill Traffic Stops All Other TOTAL:

26 9 4 350 332 16 83
72 300 4 13
139 165 863 250

OFFICERS ASSAULTED IN GEORGIA

200

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Georgia's Family Violence law is defined as the occurrence of one or more of the following acts between past or present spouses, persons who are parents of the same child, parents and children, stepparents and stepchildren, foster parents and foster children, or other persons living or formerly living in the same household:
(1) Any felony; or
(2) Commission of offenses of battery, simple battery, simple assault, assault, criminal damage to property, unlawful restraint, or criminal trespass.
The term Family Violence shall not be deemed to include reasonable discipline administered by a parent to a child in the form of corporal punishment, restraint, or detention.
During 1997 the number of reported incidents continued to increase. There were 50,152 reported cases of Family Violence statewide. Children were present in 45% (22,682) of the cases and also involved in 22% (11 ,005) of the cases. The state of Georgia continues to provide the Family Violence Incident Forms to law enforcement agencies throughout the state at no charge.

Children Present Children Involved

1995 17,816 8,671 4,516

1996 38,917 18,793 9,059

1997 50,152 22,682 11,005

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ABUSE TYPE

FAMILY VIOLENCE AGGRESSOR BY SEX
FeiiXCe

NOTE: There were 2,298 (5%) Sex of the Aggressor.

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WEAPONS USED IN FAMILY VIOLENCE

WEAPON TYPES
FIREARM CUTTING/KNIFE HAND/FIST OTHER WEAPONS TOTALS

OCCURRENCES
1,214 2,785 24,607 21,546
50,152

FIREARM CUTTING/KNIFE

2%

6%

HAND/FIST 49%

RELATIONSHIP OF AGGRESSOR TO VICTIM

PRESENT SPOUSE

18,389

FORMER SPOUSE

3,467

CHILO PARENT

2,395 2,827

STEPPARENT

516

STEPCHILD

295

FOSTER PARENT

27

FOSTER CHILD NONE OF ABOVE

559 21,677

TOTALS

50,152

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POLICE ACTION TAKEN

ARRESTED

14,811

CITATION

713

SEPARATION MEDIATION

7,400 4 ,490

OTHER NONE

13,482 9,256

TOTAL

50,152

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POLICE ACTION TAKEN

Cl ARRESTED 30%

27%

MEDIATI ON 9%

1% 15%

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Georgia's Family Violence Hotline#:

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1-800-33HAVEN
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The National Family Violence Hotline #:

1-800-799-SAFE

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"GEORGIA's LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL DURING 1997"

Sworn: Civilian:
GRAND TOTAL:

MALE

FEMALE

16,599 3,101

2,598 4,973

19,700

7,571

TOTAL 19,197 8,074 27,271

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