Here is a summary of the total arrest statistics for 2003:
- Excluding traffic offenses, law enforcement agencies in the Nation made an estimated 13.6 million arrests in 2003.
The national arrest rate was 4,695.1 arrests per 100,000 in population.
- The violent crime arrest rate was 205.3 per 100,000 inhabitants; the property crime arrest rate was 558.4 per 100,000 inhabitants.
- In 2003, law enforcement in the Nation's cities collectively reported an arrest rate of 5,109.3 arrests per 100,000 inhabitants. Law enforcement agencies in the Nation's metropolitan counties made 3,731.0 arrests per 100,000 in population; law enforcement agencies in the Nation's nonmetropolitan counties made 3,961.2 arrests per 100,000 in population.
- Compared to the data from 2002, the number of arrests in 2003 showed a slight increase, 0.2 percent. The number of arrests for violent crime in 2003 decreased 2.3 percent; the number of arrests for property crime increased 0.7 percent.
- Adults comprised 83.7 percent of all arrestees in 2003.
- By gender, 76.8 percent of those arrested in the Nation were male. Compared to the 2002 data, the number of males arrested in 2003 declined 0.4 percent; the number of females arrested in 2003 increased 1.9 percent.
- An examination of arrestee data by race indicated that 70.6 percent of those arrested in the United States in 2003 were white.
