National Uniform Crime Reporting Program
Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) is a collective effort by city, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies to present a nationwide view of crime. Agencies throughout the country voluntarily participate in the FBI UCR Program and provide monthly reports on various offenses reported to law enforcement, reports on persons arrested, as well as information about law enforcement officers killed and assaulted, hate crimes, and cargo theft.
As a result of the FBI’s national transition to the UCR - National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), the UCR - Summary Reporting System (SRS) Program will end on December 31st, 2020. The Prince George’s County Police Department will continue to maintain historical SRS data for analytical and academic purposes.
The links to the left display crime data reported by the Prince George’s County Police Department to the Maryland State UCR Program and the FBI.
Arson
Prince George’s County Police will only report fires determined through investigative means to have been unlawfully and intentionally set. Arson determinations are primarily determined by the Prince George’s County Fire and EMS Department.
As a note, the Damage Value column is an estimate of the total monetary loss incurred as a result of the arson.
Burglary
National Incident Based Reporting System Definition of Burglary/Breaking & Entering is the unlawful entry into a building or other structure with the intent to commit a felony or a theft.
Prince George’s County Police will classify an incident as a Breaking & Entering (any degree), unlawful entry with intent to commit a larceny or felony, breaking and entering with intent to commit a larceny, housebreaking, and safecracking as burglary. However, because Larceny/Theft is an element of Burglary, Prince George’s County Police will not report the Larceny as a separate offense if it is associated with the unlawful entry of a structure.
The element of trespass is essential to the offense of Burglary / Breaking & Entering.
By definition, a structure has four walls, a roof, and a door (e.g., apartment, barn, cabin, church, condominium, dwelling house, factory, garage, house trailer or houseboat if used as a permanent dwelling, mill, office, outbuilding, public building, railroad car, room, school, stable, vessel or ship, warehouse).
A structure is also any house trailer or other mobile unit permanently fixed as an office, residence, or storehouse. However, a tent, tent trailer, motor-home, house trailer, or any other mobile unit used for recreational purposes is not a structure. Prince George’s County Police will not classify the illegal entry of such mobile units, followed by felony, theft, or attempt to commit a felony or theft, as Burglary / Breaking & Entering, but rather as Larceny.
Carjacking
The State of Maryland defines Carjacking as a robbery or attempted robbery where the primary objective is to obtain the victim's motor vehicle and the victim is in the vehicle or in very close proximity to the vehicle.
A Carjacking is a Maryland specific categorization of crime that is required to be reported under Maryland State law. Under the UCR program, the term Carjacking does not exist as these incidents are reported as Robberies as the motor vehicle is considered proceeds of the incident. Several states have included Carjacking as a state reporting requirement and for this purpose the Prince George’s County will make our local occurrence data available publicly.
All robberies where a motor vehicle is taken or attempted to be taken will appear within this section. These data are indicative of incidents that occurred within an area where the Prince George’s County Police Department has primary law enforcement jurisdiction and does not display data from our municipal partners.
Criminal Homicide
National Incident-Based Reporting System Definition of Murder and Nonnegligent Manslaughter is the willful (nonnegligent) killing of one human being by another.
As a general rule, Prince George's County Police will classify in this category any death due to injuries received in a fight, argument, quarrel, assault, or commission of a crime.
Prince George's County Police does not classify justified homicides (by police or civilians), suicides, traffic fatalities (including those involving DUI), fetal deaths, assaults to murder, attempted murders, or accidental deaths as Murder and Nonnegligent Manslaughter. The National UCR Program traditionally excludes suicides, traffic fatalities, and fetal deaths from its crime counts. In addition, the National UCR Program classifies assault to murder and attempted murder as Aggravated Assault, and it counts some accidental deaths as Negligent Manslaughter.
It should be noted that the totals contained below are not perfectly correlative to the number of incidents or victims of criminal homicide within the listed months. At times, manor of death, investigatory outcomes, date/time of death, reporting requirements, and other factors impact overall counts.
As an example, if a person is seriously injured In March of a given year but does not pass away from their injuries until October of the same year, the count below will include a “+1” for October although the initial incident occurred previously.
These totals are as accurate as possible at the time of publication but are subject to change.
To select multiple months, or years, hold the "CTRL" button and click multiple selections to compare data side by side.
Larceny/Theft
Larceny and Theft mean the same thing in the UCR Program. Local offense classifications such as grand theft, petty larceny, felony larceny, or misdemeanor larceny have no bearing on the fact that police agencies report one offense for each distinct operation of such larcenies for UCR purposes, regardless of the value of the property stolen.
Non-Fatal Shootings
Robbery
Robbery involves the offender taking or attempting to take something of value from a victim, usually the property owner or custodian, by the use of force or threat of force (the victim must be present). If there is no direct confrontation and the victim is not in fear of immediate harm, Prince George’s County Police reports the incident as an Extortion.
Though direct confrontation occurs in pocket-pickings or purse-snatchings, force or threat of force is absent. However, if during a purse-snatching or other such crime, the offender uses force or threat of force to overcome the active resistance of the victim, Prince George’s County Police reports the offense as Robbery.