StateMaster - Washingtonian Crime statistics

Arson deaths	1.49	[22nd of 49]
Capital Punishment > Electrocution	0	[22nd of 32]
Capital Punishment > Lethal injection	2	[22nd of 32]
Firearms Death Rate per 100,000	9.3	[36th of 51]
Homicide > Victims by Sex > Female	29.4 %	[16th of 49]
Homicide > Victims by Weapon > Other Weapons	32.8 %	[8th of 49]
Lynchings > Black	1	[36th of 44]
Lynchings > Total	26	[29th of 44]
Lynchings > White	25	[21st of 44]
Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter	190	[25th of 51]
Prisoners under the jurisdiction of State or Federal correctional authorities	16,614	[27th of 50]
Property crime total	286,533	[11th of 51]
Robbery	6,405	[21st of 51]
State and Federal prisoners held in local jails	1	[34th of 44]
State and Federal prisoners held in private facilities	327	[24th of 50]
State Prisoners > Number of deaths	60	[28th of 50]
State Prisons > Number of Homicides	2	[20th of 50]
State Prisons > Number of Suicides	4	[25th of 50]
Violent crime	22,120	[19th of 51]
Women under the jurisdiction of State or Federal correctional authorities	133	[45th of 50]

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SOURCES: US Fire Administration, 2001; Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2005; statehealthfacts.org; Bureau of Justice Statistics ; UMKC School of Law; Bureau of Justice Statistics; Bureau of Justice Statistics; Bureau of Justice Statistics, State Prisoner Suicides and Homicides, 2001.

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