USCrimes {TeachingDemos}

US Crime Statistics

Description

This is a 3 dimensional Array of the US crime statistics downloaded from the "Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics" of the US government. It comprises the years 1960 through 2010 for all 50 states, Washington DC, and a total for the country.

Usage

data(USCrimes)

Format

The format is: num [1:52, 1:51, 1:19] 3266740 226167 1302161 1786272 15717204 ... - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 3 ..$ State: chr [1:52] "Alabama" "Alaska" "Arizona" "Arkansas" ... ..$ : chr [1:51] "1960" "1961" "1962" "1963" ... ..$ : chr [1:19] "Population" "ViolentCrimeRate" "MurderRate" "RapeRate" ...

Details

The first dimension is the state, the dimnames match the variable state.name with the exception of including "District of Columbia" in the 9th position (alphabetically) and "United States-Total" in position 45 (alphabetical).

The second dimension is the year, ranging from 1960 to 2010. If indexing by year, remember to put the year in quotes.

The third dimension is the variable:

Population:

Total number of residents

ViolentCrimeRate:

The total of the violent crimes (Murder, Rape, Robbery, Assault) per 100,000 population

MurderRate:

The number of Murders and Nonnegligent Manslaughters per 100,000 population

RapeRate:

Forcible Rapes per 100,000 population

RobberyRate:

Robberies per 100,000 population

AssaultRate:

Aggravated Assults per 100,000

PropertyCrimeRate:

The total of the property crimes (Burglary, Theft, Vehicle Theft) per 100,000 population

BurglaryRate:

Burglaries per 100,000 population

TheftRate:

Larceny-Thefts per 100,000 population

VehicleTheftRate:

Motor Vehicle Thefts per 100,000 population

ViolentCrimeTotal:

The total of the violent crimes (Murder, Rape, Robbery, Assault

Murder:

The number of Murders and Nonnegligent Manslaughters

Rape:

Forcible Rapes

Robbery:

Robberies

Assault:

Aggravated Assults

PropertyCrimeTotal:

The total of the property crimes (Burglary, Theft, Vehicle Theft)

Burglary:

Burglaries

Theft:

Larceny-Thefts

VehicleTheft:

Motor Vehicle Thefts

Source

Originally: "https://ucrdatatool.gov/"", but that site does not work any more. Likely source for similar data: "https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/more-fbi-services-and-information/ucr/publications"

Examples

data(USCrimes)
## maybe str(USCrimes)

# plot time series/sparkline for each state
if(require(spData) && interactive()) {
	data(state.vbm)
	plot(state.vbm)

	tmp.x <- state.vbm$center_x
	tmp.x <- c( tmp.x[1:8], 147, tmp.x[9:43], 83, tmp.x[44:50] )
	tmp.y <- state.vbm$center_y
	tmp.y <- c( tmp.y[1:8], 45, tmp.y[9:43], -18, tmp.y[44:50] )
	tmp.r <- range( USCrimes[,,'ViolentCrimeRate'], na.rm=TRUE)
	for(i in 1:52) {
		subplot( plot(1960:2010, USCrimes[i,,'ViolentCrimeRate'],
					ann=FALSE, bty='n', type='l', axes=FALSE),
			tmp.x[i], tmp.y[i], size=c(0.2,0.2) )
	}
}


## Gapminder style animation over time
if( interactive() ) {
x.r <- range( USCrimes[-c(9,45),,'Population'], na.rm=TRUE )
y.r <- range( USCrimes[-c(9,45),,'PropertyCrimeRate'], na.rm=TRUE )

tmpfun <- function(Year=1960, ... ) {
	y <- as.character(Year)
	plot( USCrimes[-c(9,45),y,'Population'],
		 USCrimes[-c(9,45),y,'PropertyCrimeRate'],
		type='n', xlab='log Population',
		ylab='Property Crime Rate',
		main=y, xlim=x.r, ylim=y.r, log='x' )
	text( USCrimes[-c(9,45),y,'Population'],
		 USCrimes[-c(9,45),y,'PropertyCrimeRate'],
		state.abb, ... )
}

tmp.list <- list( Year=list('animate', from=1960, to=2010, delay=250) )

tmpcol <- c('blue','darkgreen','red','purple')[state.region]
tkexamp( tmpfun(col=tmpcol), tmp.list )
}