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US. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau ofJustice Statistics October 2021, NO 301775 Criminal Victimization, 2020 Rachel E. Morgan, Ph.D., and Alexandra Thompson, BIS Statisticians rom 2019 to 2020, the total violent a decline in assault. The rate of simple assault F victimization rate declined 22%, from 21.0 to 16.4 victimization per 1,000 persons age 12 or older (figure 1). Violent declined from 13.7 per 1,000 in 2019 to 10.7 per 1,000 in 2020, and the rate of aggravated assault declined from 3.7 to 2.9 per 1,000. The victimization indudes rape or sexual assault, decline in aggravated assault drove the decrease robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault. in violent crime, excluding simple assault, from Based on data from the National Crime 2019 (7.3 per 1,000) to 2020 (5.6 per 1,000). The Victimization Survey (NCVS), the decrease in rates of rape or sexual assault or robbery did not violent victimization was driven primarily by change between 2019 and 2020. FIGURE 1 Rate of victimization, by type of crime, 2019-2020 Indent crime' I-. I Property orlmeb Rape/sexual assault E. Burglary H Robbery Trespassing 1 Aggravated assault REIF; t Motor vehicle theft Simple assault 2019 2019 Violent crime excluding 2020* Other theft f. ■ 2020' simple assault al 0 5 10 15 20 25 20 40 60 80 100 120 Rate per 1.000 persons age 12 or older Rate per 1.000 households Note: See appendix table 1 (or estimates and standard errors. 'Comparison year. tDifference with comparison year is significant at the 95%confidence level. tDifference with comparison year is significant at the 90%confidence level. aSee table I footnote for violent crime definition. bSee table 2 footnote (or property crime definition. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics. National Crime Victimization Survey. 2019-2020. HIGHLIGHTS • The violent victimization rate declined from • A smaller share of intimate partner victimizations 21.0 per 1,000 persons age 12 or older in 2019 to were reported to police in 2020 (41%) than in 16.4 per 1,000 in 2020. 2019 (58%). • The number of violent crimes, excluding simple • The rate of violent victimization against persons assault, fell from 2.0 million in 2019 to 1.6 million ages 12 to 17 declined 51% from 2019 to 2020. in 2020. • From 2019 to 2020, the rates of violent and • The number of burglary and trespassing property victimization fell in suburban areas but victimizations declined from 2019 (2.2 million) to did not change in urban and rural areas. 2020 (1.7 million). • The number of firearm victimizations declined • About 40% of violent victimizations and 3396 of from 2019 (481,950) to 2020 (350,460). property victimizations were reported to police in 2020. 3502-024 Page 1 of 22 EFTA_00001611 EFTA00156952 The rate of property crime victimization declined for March 15, 2020 as the middle of the reference period. the second year in a row, from 101.4 victimizations per Crimes are classified by the year of the survey and not by 1,000 households in 2019 to 94.5 per 1,000 in 2020. the year of the crime. (See Methodology.) Property crime includes burglary, residential trespassing, motor vehicle theft, and other types of household theft. The number of violent victimizations fell 22% from Decreases in the rates of burglary and trespassing 2019 to 2020 drove the overall reduction in the property crime rate from 2019 to 2020. Burglary declined 19% (11.7 to Victimization reflect the total number of times people 9.5 burglaries per 1,000 households) and trespassing or households were victimized by crime. In 2020, declined 24% (5.5 to 4.1 per 1,000). From 2019 to 2020, there were 4.6 million violent victimizations, down there were no statistically significant changes in the rates from 5.8 million in 2019 (table I). The total number of of motor vehicle theft and other household theft. assaults also declined from 2019 to 2020, driven by a decrease in both aggravated assaults (from 1.0 million The NCVS is a self-report survey administered annually victimizations to 812,000) and simple assaults (from from January Ito December 31. Annual NCVS estimates 3.8 million victimizations to 3.0 million). Violent are based on the number and characteristics of crimes victimizations, excluding simple assault, decreased from that respondents experienced during the prior 6 months, 2.0 million to 1.6 million. There were no statistically excluding the month in which they were interviewed. significant changes in the number of victimizations Therefore, the 2020 survey covers crimes experienced involving rape or sexual assault or involving robbery from July 1, 2019 to November 30, 2020, with between 2019 and 2020. TABLE 1 Number and rate of violent victimizations, by type of crime, 2016-2020 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020° Rate per Rate per Rateper Rate per Rate per Type of violent crime Number 1.000a Number 1,00V Number 1.Ott Number 1,000 - Number 1,00r Violent cdrneb 5,353,8201 19.7 5,612,670 t 20.61 6,385,5201 23.21 5,8114101 21.0 4,558,150 16.4 Rape/sexual assault' 298,410 1.1 393,980 1.4 734,6301 271 459.310 1.7 319,950 1.2 Robbery 458,810 1.7 613,840t 23t 573,100 21 534,420 1.9 437,260 1.6 Assault 4,596.6001 16.91 4,604,850 t 16.91 5,077,7901 18.41 4,819,680t 17.41 1800,950 13.7 Aggravated assault 1,0405801 3.8 t 993,170* 3.6* 1,058,040t 3M 1.019,490* 3.7* 812,180 2.9 Simple assault 3,5560201 13.1 3,611,680t 133t 4,019,7501 14.61 3.800,1901 117t 2.988,770 10.7 Violent crime excluding simple assaults 1.797290 6.6 t 2.000,990 1 731 2,365,7701 8.6 '1 2,013,220t 7.31 1.569,390 5.6 Selected characteristics of violent crime Domestic violencee 1,068.120 3.9 1,237,960 1 4.5 f 1,333,050 t 491 1,164.540* 4.2* 856,750 3.1 Intimate partner violence, 597,200 2.2 666,310# 2.4* 847,2301 111 695,060* 2.5* 484830 1.7 Stranger violence 2,082,410 7.7 2,034,100 7.5 2,493,750 9.1 t 2,254,740 8.1 1,973,200 7.1 Note: Details may not sum to totals due to rounding. Categories of violent crime include rape or sexual assault. robbery, aggravated assault and simple assault, and they include threatened, attempted. and completed occurrences of those crimes. See appendix table 2 for standard errors. 'Comparison year. tDifference with comparison year is significant at the %%confidence level. tDifference with comparison year is significant at the 90% confidence level. aRate is per 1.000 persons age 12 or older. See appendix table 11 for person populations. bindudes rape or sexual assault. robbery. aggravated assault. and simple assault. Excludes homicide because the National Crime Vidimization Survey 1NCVS) is based on interviews with victims. 'See Methodology for details on the measurement of rape or sexual assault in the NCVS. dlndudes rape or sexual assault robbery. and aggravated assault. alncludes the subset of violent vktimizations that were committed by intimate partners or family members. tlncludes the subset of violent victimizations that were committed by current or former spouses, boyfriends. or girlfriends. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics. National Crime Victimization Survey. 2016-2020. CRIMINAL VICTIMIZATION, 2020 I OCTOBER 2021 2 3502-024 Page 2 of 22 EFIA_00001612 EFTA00156953 The rate of domestic violence (violent victimization that victimizations committed by current or former intimate were committed by current or former intimate partners partners only) also declined from 2019 to 2020, from or family members) was 3.1 victimizations per 1,000 2.5 to 1.7 per 1,000. There was no statistically significant persons age 12 or older in 2020, down from 4.2 per 1,000 change in the rate of stranger violence from 2019 to 2020. in 2019. Intimate partner violence (domestic violence The Impact of COVID-19 on the National Crime Victimization Survey In a typical year, the National Crime Victimization interviews and shifted all returning sample interviews to Survey (NCVS) is administered from January 1 through telephone calls starting in mid•March 2020 (figure 2). December 31 to persons age 12 or older from a nationally In July 2020, modified personal visits resumed in some representative sample of U.S. households. Selected geographic areas for returning sample households, based households remain in the sample for 3.5 years, and on applicable federal, state, and local guidance at that eligible persons in these households are interviewed time. These modifications allowed field representatives every 6 months, fora total of seven interviews. All new (Fits) to leave survey information at respondents' doors households entering the panel (incoming sample) are and to classify vacant or abandoned properties. Without interviewed in person (personal visits). Households that the FR's visit, these households would have been have already been interviewed at least once (returning misclassified as nonrespondents. sample) are interviewed either in person or over the phone. In October 2020, personal visits resumed for both Due to increasing risks related to COVID-19, the Bureau incoming and returning sample households, under of Justice Statistics (BJS), in coordination with the modified procedures and subject to federal, state, and U.S. Census Bureau, suspended all incoming sample local guidance. Interviews were primarily conducted over the phone through the end of 2020. FIGURE 2 National Crime Victimization Survey field operation procedures, 2020 Suspended Interviews for Incoming sant* Normal field operations Modified personal Jan '20 reb '20 ?Aar '20 Apr '20 May '20 Jun '20 Jul '20 Aug '20 Sept '20 Oct '20 Nov '20 Dec '20 Source: U.S. Census Bureau. 2020. Continued on next page CRIMINAL VICTIMIZATION, 2020 I OCTOBER 2021 3 3502-024 Page 3 of 22 EFTA_00001613 EFTA00156954  The Impact of COVID-19 on the National Crime Victimization Survey (continued) The household response rate dropped from an average of ■ Weights for the incoming sample in the first and fourth 71% during 2019 to 63% in May 2020, before rising to 72% quarters of 2020 were doubled to compensate for in September 20201 (figure 3). Response rates remained the suppressed incoming sample in the second and steady in the last quarter of 2020, such that the overall third quarters. unweighted household response rate was 67% in 2020. ■ Household weights for the types of group quarters 2020 weighting adjustments included in the NCVS were controlled to match historical values.2 To address the impact of these modified field operations ■ Household control weights were developed to weight due to COVID-19, BJS, in collaboration with the U.S. household distributions by sample type. Census Bureau, examined the 2020 data to determine what adjustments were needed to ensure comparability For more information on the 2020 response rates and with past and future years of NCVS data. To inform this weighting adjustments, see the Source and Accuracy process, a series of simulations using 2019 NCVS data Statement for the 2020 National Crime Victimization Survey were developed to assess differences related to changes in the NCVS 2020 Codebook (https://wwwjcpsnumich. in the field operations. As a result of this analysis, several edu/web/NACJD/series/95) and the most recent version adjustments were applied to the 2020 NCVS data: of the National Crime Victimization Survey, 2016: Technical Documentation (NCJ 251442, BJS, December 2017). !From March to October 2020, interviews with incoming sample households were suspended due to modified field operations from 2Group quarters are "places where people live or stay in a COVID-19. These suppressed households were classified as Type group living arrangement that is owned or managed by an A nonresponse and excluded from the response rate calculation. organization providing housing and/or services for the residents Type A nonresponse households induded interview-eligible sample (see https://www.census.govinewsroomiblogsfrandom- addresses in which no household member could be interviewed. samplings/2021/03/2020-census-group-quartershtml). They include non-institutional settings such as residence halls. rooming hou.es, and religious group dwellings. FIGURE 3 Monthly household response rates for the National Crime Victimization Survey, 2019-2020 Percent 100 90 SO Household response rate (returning sample only) 70 .1-------- 60 Household response rate SO 40 30 20 10 0 It' 19 tia9r Apr May 1g Aug S19t Oct 1 tt; Dec 1 138 Feb )410 10 11 110 Jul 41'0 Sept ' Hoy Dec 92c0 '20 '20 Note: See appendix table 3 for estimates. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics. National Oime Victimization Survey. 2019-2020. CRIMINAL VICTIMIZATION, 2020 I OCTOBER 2021 4 3502-024 Page 4 of 22 EFTA_00001614 EFTA00156955 Burglary and trespassing victimizations decreased During the 5-year period from 2016 to 2020, the from 2019 to 2020 property victimization rate declined 20%, from 118.6 to 94.5 victimizations per 1,000 households. This was Households in the United States experienced an primarily driven by decreases in the rates of burglary estimated 12.1 million property victimizations in 2020, and trespassing. The burglary rate declined 43%, from down from 12.8 million in 2019 (table 2). During this 16.5 per 1,000 households in 2016 to 9.5 per 1,000 in time, the number of burglaries fell from 1.5 million to 2020. Trespassing declined 42%, from 7.2 to 4.1 per 1,000 1.2 million. during this period. The rate of other household theft also decreased, from 90.3 to 76.6 per 1,000. TABLE 2 Number and rate of property victimization, by type of crime, 2016-2020 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020' atepor atepm Beeper Type of property crime Number R,00P 1 Number R 1,00 ateper Number R 1,00V Number 1,00(aer Number 1,00 Totalb 15,815310 118.6 T 13,340.220 t 108.41 13,502,840 7 108.2 12,818,000 t 101.41 12,085,170 945 Burglary/trespassingc 3,160,450 23.7 T 2,538.170 t 20.6 t 2,639,620 1 21.1 2,178,400 1 1721 1,741,250 13.6 Burglaryd 2,205,180 16.5 T 1,03.890 t 13.7 t 1,867,620 1 15.0 1,484230 1 112 t 1,210,640 93 Trespassing 955,270 7.2t 849,280t 6.9t 772,0007 6.2 693,670 t 55 t 530,610 4.1 Motor vehicle theft 618330 4.6 516,810 4.2 534,010 4.3 495,670 3.9 545,810 43 Other theftf 12.036.530 90.37 10.285.240 83.6t 10.329.210 82.77 10.143930 802 9.798,110 76.6 Note Details may not sum to totals due to rounding. Categories indude threatened. attempted. and completed crimes.The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) household weighting adjustment was updated for 2017 onward which decreased the estimated number of households and the number of households experiencing property crime by about 8%. Asa result. the number of property crimes for 2016 should not be compared to 2017. 2018, 2019. or 2020. Property crime rates are unaffected by this change. See Methodology for more information. See appendix table 4 for standard errors. 'Comparison year. *Difference with comparison year is significant at the 95%confidence level. *Difference with comparison year is significant at the 90%confidence level. abate is per 1.000 households. See appendix table 12 for household populations. bindudes burglary or trespassing. motor vehicle theft.and other theft. cIncludes unlawful or forcible entry or attempted entry of places. including a permanent residence. other residence (e.g.. a hotel room or vacation residence). or other structure (e.g.. a garage or shed). Includes victimizations where the offender stole. attempted to steal. or did not attempt to steal. Excludes trespassing on land. dIncludes only crimes where the offender committed or attempted a theft. %dudes aimes where the offender did not commit or attempt a theft. Excludes trespassing on land. 'Includes other unlawful taking or attempted unlawful taking of property or cash without personal contact with the victim. Source Bureau of Justice Statistics. National Crime Victimization Survey. 2016-2020. Outlier weights in the National Crime Victimization Survey The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) uses Beginning with the 2020 datafile, the Bureau of Justice analysis weights to account for differential probabilities Statistics (315) incorporated an additional factor to of selecting sample members and varying response rates. moderate the impact of extreme cases on NCVS estimates. This helps ensure that estimates produced from the sample After exploring several methods for identifying and are representative of the target population. While efforts adjusting outlier weights, BJS applied a framework that are made during the NCVS weighting process to limit the identifies extreme cases, applies an adjustment, and size of weighting adjustment factors, it is still possible for reallocates the excess weight to nonoutlier cases. For some households or individuals to be assigned a large more information on this methodology, see the Source weight relative to other members of the sample. When and AccuracyStatement for the 2020NationalCrime these households or persons with large weights also report Victimization Survey in the NCVS 2020 Codebook (https:// a large number of victimizations, they can have an undue, www.icpstumich.edu/web/NACJI3/series/95). For more or "extreme: influence on victimization estimates and information on the research BJS conducted to develop negatively affect the precision of estimates, particularly this methodology, see National Criminal Victimization for rare crime types or small subpopulations. Survey:Assessment of Outlier Weights (NCI 302186, BJS, October 2021). CRIMINAL VICTIMIZATION. 2020 I OCTOBER 2021 5 3502-024 Page 5 of 22 EFIA_00001615 EFTA00156956  The Uniform Crime Reporting program and National Crime Victimization Survey: A complementary picture of crime in the U.S. For 2019, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform certain crimes against youth. Due to these factors, the Crime Reporting (UCR) program reported that 3.8 violent age distribution of crimes measured in the UCR differs crimes per 1,000 persons and 21.1 property crimes per from that of the NCVS. 1,000 persons were known to law enforcement (table 3). Restricting the NCVS to violent crime reported to police, and Based on the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) exduding simple assault. keeps NCVS and UCR measures as administered by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), similar as possible.Taken together, these two measures of 3.4 violent crimes, excluding simple assault, per 1,000 crime provide a more comprehensive picture of crime in persons age 12 or older, and 33.0 property crimes per the U.S. For additional information about the differences 1,000 households were reported to law enforcement between the NCVS and UCR, see the most recent version in 2019. The 2020 NCVS estimated 2.8 violent crimes, of The Nation's Two Crime Measures (NO 246832, BJS, excluding simple assault, per 1,000 persons age 12 or September 2014). older, and 31.2 property crimes per 1,000 households were reported to law enforcement.3 Estimates from the UCR and NCVS will differ because TABLE 3 the two sources use different methods to measure an Rate of crime reported to police in the Uniform Crime overlapping but nonidentical set of offenses: Reporting program and National Crime Victimization Survey, 2019-2020 ■ The UCR includes murder, nonnegligent manslaughter, and commercial crimes (including burglary of 2019 UCR Rate per 1,000 persons rate per 1,000 age 12 or older commercial establishments), while the NCVS excludes Type of crime residents' 2019 NCVS 2020 NCVS those crime types. Violent crime excluding ■ The UCR excludes sexual assault, which the simple assault 3.79 338 2.78 NCVS includes?) Murder 0.05 Rape sexual assaultb 0.43 036 0.26 ■ The UCR property crime rates are per person, while Robbery 0.82 0.90 0.85 the NCVS's are per household. Moreover, because the Aggravated assault 2.50 1.92 1.66 number of households may not grow at the same rate each year as the total population, trend data for rates rate per 1,000 Rate per 1,000 households of property crimes measured by the two programs may residents' 2019 NCVS 2020 NCVS not be entirely comparable. There were 2.2 persons Propertycrime 21.10 33.00 31.19 age 12 or older per household in 2020. gurglaryc 141 6.03 4.18 ■ NCVS estimates are based on interviews with a nationally Motor vehicle theft 2.20 3.12 3.18 Note: National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) and Uniform Crime representative sample of persons in US. households. Reporting NCR) program crime rates are calculated differently. UCR UCR estimates are based on counts of crimes recorded crime rates are normally reported per 100.000 persons but were by law enforcement agencies and are weighted to recakulated for this report to align with the reporting of NCVS crime rates per 1.000. See appendix table S for standard errors. compensate for incomplete reporting. -Not applicable. ■ The NCVS does not measure crimes against persons alncludes crimes against persons age 11 or younger. persons who are homeless. persons who are institutionalized. and crimes against who are homeless or who live in institutional settings commercial establishments. These populations are out of sample for (e.g., nursing homes and correctional institutions) or the NCVS. on military bases. Nor does the NCVS measure crimes blhe NCVS estimate includes sexual assault.The UCR estimate excludes against children age 11 or younger. The UCR measures sexual assault and is based on the program's revised definition of rape. See Methodology for details on the measurement of rape or sexual crimes against all U.S. residents, including crimes assault in the NCVS. against children age 11 or younger. In some states, UCR defines burglary as forcible entry. unlawful entry where no mandatory reporting laws require that persons report force is used, or attempted forcible entry of a structure to commit a felony or theft. The NCVS defines burglary as the unlawful or forcible entry or attempted entry of places. induding a permanent residence. Sihe 2019 UCR data were the most recent data at the time this other residence (e.g.. a hotel room or vacation residence). or other report was written. structure (e.g.. a garage or shed) where there was a completed or 4Sexual assault includes a range of victimization and is separate attempted theft. from rape or attempted rape. It indudes attacks or threatened Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics. National Crime Victimization Survey. attacks invohing unwanted sexual contact between victim 2019-2020: and Federal Bureau of Investigation. Crime in the United and offender. with or without force: grabbing or fondling: and States. 2019. verbal threats. CRIMINAL VICTIMIZATION, 2020 I OCTOBER 2021 6 3502-024 Page 6 of 22 EFTA_00001616 EFTA00156957 Victims reported a smaller percentage of intimate TABLE 4 partner violence in 2020 than in 2019 Percent of victimizations reported to police, by type of The NCVS provides statistics on crimes reported crime. 2019-2020 and not reported to police and on the reasons why Type of crime 2019 2020' Potent aim.' 40.9% 402% a crime was not reported to police. Victims may not Rape/sexual assaultb 33.9 22.9 report a crime for a variety of reasons, including fear Robbery 46.6 543 of reprisal or getting the offender in trouble, believing Assault 40.9 40.0 that police would not or could not do anything to help, Aggravated assault 52.1 57.0 and believing the crime to be a personal issue or too Simple assault 37.9 314 trivial to report. Reporting to police may occur during Violent crime excluding or immediately following a criminal incident or at a simple assault' 46.5% 493% later date. Police may be notified by the victim, a third Selected characteristics of violent crime party (including witnesses; other victims; household Domestic violenced 52.2% 41.1% members; or nonpolice officials, such as school officials Intimate partner violence' 58.4* 41.4 or workplace managers), or police may have been at the Stranger violence 39.9 43.9 scene of the incident. Property crime 32.5% 33.0% Burglary/trespassingr 48.5# 434 In 2020, about 40% of violent victimizations were Burglaryg 51.4 t 44.2 reported to police, which was not a statistically Trespassingb 42.2 415 significant change from 2019 (41%) (table 4). Motor vehicle theft 795 74.6 A third (33%) of property victimizations were reported Other thefti 26.8 * 2&9 to police in 2020. There were some statistically Note:Categories of violent crime include rape or sexual assault. robbery, aggravated assault. and simple assault. and they indude threatened. significant changes in the percentage of crime reported attempted. and completed occurrences of those crimes. See appendix to police from 2019 to 2020. During this time period, table 6 for standard errors. the percentage of intimate partner violence reported 'Comparison year. to police declined from 58% to 41%. The percentage of *Difference with comparison year is significant at the 95% confidence level. *Difference with comparison year is significant at the 90% confidence level. total burglary and trespassing victimizations reported to aExcludes homicide because the National Crime Victimization Survey police declined from 48% in 2019 to 43% in 2020, which (NCVS) is based on interviews with victims. was driven by a decline in burglary reported to police hSee Methodology for details on the measurement of rape or sexual assault in the NCVS. (from 51% to 44%). 'Includes rape or sexual assault. robbery. and aggravated assault. dincludes the subset of violent victimizations that were committed by intimate partners or family members. 'Includes the subset of violent victimization that were committed by current or former spouses. boyfriends. or girlfriends. 'Includes unlawful or forcible entry or attempted entry of places. including a permanent residence. other residence (e.g., a hotel room or vacation residence). or other structure (e.g.. a garage or shed). Includes victimizations where the offender stole. attempted to steal.or did not attempt to steal. Excludes trespassing on land. %dudes only crimes where the offender committed or attempted a theft. hlncludes crimes where the offender did not commit or attempt a theft. Excludes trespassing on land. 'Includes other unlawful taking or attempted unlawful taking of property or cash without personal contact with the victim. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics. National Crime Victimization Survey. 2019-2020. CRIMINAL VICTIMIZATION, 2020 I OCTOBER 2021 7 3502-024 Page 7 of 22 EFIA_00001617 EFTA00156958 Rates of reported and unreported violent crime TABLE 5 declined from 2019 to 2020 Rate of victimization reported and not reported to police, From 2019 to 2020, the rate of violent crime reported by type of crime. 2019-2020 to police declined from 8.6 to 6.6 victimizations per Reported to poke Not reported to police 1,000 persons age 12 or older (table 5). Similarly, the Type of crime 2019 2020' 2019 2020' Violent aimea 8.6t 6.6 12.1 t 9.5 rate of unreported violent crime declined from 12.1 to Rape/sexual assaulth 0.6 0.3 1.0 0.8 9.5 victimizations per 1,000 persons age 12 or older. The Robbery 0.9 0.9 1.0 0.7 decreases for the reported and unreported rates of violent Assault 7.1t 55 10.0t 7.9 crime were both driven by declines in assault. Decreases Aggravated assault 1.9 1.7 1.7 1.2 were also seen in the rates of violent crime, excluding Simple assault Sgt 3.8 8.3* 6.7 simple assault, reported to police (from 3.4 to 2.8 per Violent crime excluding 1,000) and not reported to police (from 3.7 to 2.8 per simple assauftc 3.4t 2.8 3.7t 2.8 Selected characteristics of 1,000) during this period. violent crime The rate of domestic violence reported to police declined Domestic violenced 2.2t 13 1.9 1.8 Intimate partner 42%, from 2.2 per 1,000 in 2019 to 1.3 per 1,000 in violence 1St 0.7 1.0 1.0 2020. Similarly, the rate of intimate partner violence Stranger violence 33 3.1 4.8t 3.8 reported to police decreased 51% (from 1.5 to 0/ per Property crime 33.0 31.2 672t 62.0 1,000). However, the rates of domestic violence and Burglaiy/trespassingi 83 t 5.9 8.7 7.6 intimate partner violence not reported to police in 2020 Burglar 6.0 t 4.2 5.7 5.3 were similar to the rates in 2019. Although there was Trespassingh 23t 1.7 10* 2.4 no statistically significant change in the rate of stranger Motor vehicle theft 3.1 3.2 0.8 1.0 violence reported to police from 2019 to 2020, the rate Other thefti 21.5 22.1 57.7t 53.3 Note Rates are per 1.000 persons age 12 or older for violent crime and per of stranger violence not reported to police declined from 1,000 households for property crime. See appendix table 11 for person 4.8 to 3.8 victimizations per 1,000 persons. populations and appendix table 12 for household populations. Categories of violent crime indude rape or sexual assault. robbery. aggravated The rate of property crime not reported to police assault. and simple assault. and they include threatened. attempted. and completed occurrences of those crimes. See appendix table 7 for standard declined from 67.2 victimizations per 1,000 households errors. in 2019 to 62 per 1,000 in 2020, while the rate of property 'Comparison year. crime reported to police did not change significantly. (Difference with comparison year is significant at the 95% confidence level. For some types of property crime, there were differences *Difference with comparison year is significant at the 90% confidence level. aExcludes homicide because the National Crime Victimization Survey between the rate of crime reported and not reported to (NCVS) is based on interviews with victims. police during this period. The rate of burglary reported hSee Methodology for details on the measurement of rape or sexual assault to police declined from 6.0 per 1,000 households in in the NCVS. 2019 to 4.2 per 1,000 in 2020, while the rate of burglary eincIudes rape or sexual assault. robbery. and aggravated assault. dincludes the subset of violent victimizations that were committed by not reported to police did not change significantly. The intimate partners or family members. rate of other theft not reported to police decreased from elncludes the subset of violent victimization: that were committed by 57.7 to 53.3 per 1,000 during this period, while the rate current or former spouses. boyfriends. or girlfriends. fIncludes unlawful or forcible entry or attempted entry of places. reported to police did not change significantly. including a permanent residence. other residence (e.g.. a hotel room or vacation residence). or other structure (e.g.. a garage or shed). Includes Some property crime types had similar changes over the victimizations where the offender stole. attempted to steal.or did not prior year regardless of whether the crime was reported attempt to steal Excludes trespassing on land. to police. From 2019 to 2020, decreases were seen in the 0Includes only crimes where the offender committed or attempted a theft. hlncludes crimes where the offender did not