Offense 90I(Runaway) is a person under 18 years of age who has left home without permission of his/her parent(s) or legal guardian.

In January 2011, the FBI UCR Program discontinued the collection of arrest data for the category of runaways. Agencies may continue to collect and submit data on runaways, but the FBI UCR Program will no longer use or publish those data. Should an agency wish to submit data on runaways, they can use the Group B Arrest Report format to report each incident, including the runaway’s apprehension for protective custody. If an LEA chooses to report runaways, the jurisdiction where the runaway resides should report the detention (pickup) of the runaway when another jurisdiction picks up the minor.

CHAPTER 12-24
Uniform Crime Reporting System

12-24-1. Reporting System. – A uniform crime reporting system shall be established under the direction, control, and supervision of the superintendent of state police. The superintendent of state police shall have the power and duty, by any rules and regulations that he or she may deem necessary to collect and gather any information from local police departments and the enforcement division of the department of environmental management that may be and is prescribed in this chapter.

12-24-2. Reports. – The police department of each city and town and the enforcement division of the department of environmental management, once each quarter, upon a date and form prescribed and furnished by the superintendent of state police, shall forward to the division of state police a crime report. Each reporting department shall report only on cases within its jurisdiction and upon which it is making, or has made, the primary police investigation. The report shall be called the uniform crime report and shall cover crimes reported and otherwise processed during the reporting period. It shall contain the number and nature of offenses committed, the disposition of those offenses, and any other information that the superintendent of state police shall specify relating to the method, frequency, cause, and prevention of crime. Under no circumstances shall the name of any person be reported.

12-24-3. Compilation of Reports. – Upon receipt of the quarterly uniform crime reports from the reporting agencies, the division of state police shall prepare a statewide compilation of the statistics contained in the reports, and the resulting statistical compilation shall be available to any governmental law enforcement agency in the state, the judiciary committees of the senate and the house of representatives, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, upon request. The statistics made available through the uniform crime report shall be used for the purpose of studying the causes, trends, and effects of crime in this state and for intelligence upon which to base a sounder program of crime detection and prevention and the apprehension of criminals.

12-24-4. Other Agencies. – Any governmental agency, not falling within the description of those required to submit the quarterly uniform crime report set forth in § 12-24-2, which desires to submit a report, shall be furnished with the proper forms by the division of state police. When a report is received by the division of state police from a governmental police agency not required to make a report, the information contained in the report shall be included within the monthly compilation provided for in § 12-24-3.

Crime rates are indicators of reported crime activity standardized by population.  They are more refined indicators for comparative purposes than are volume figures. 

A crime rate, defined as the number of offenses per 100,000 population, is derived by first dividing a jurisdiction’s population by 100,000 and then dividing the number of offenses by the resulting figure. 

Example: 

a. Population for Jurisdiction, 75,000

b. Number of known burglaries for Jurisdiction for a year, 215

Divide 75,000 by 100,000 = .75

Divide 215 by .75 = 286.7

The burglary rate is 286.7 per 100,000 inhabitants.

The number .75 can now be divided into the totals of any offense class to produce a crime rate for that offense.  The same procedure may be used to obtain arrest rates per 100,000.

Excel Formula

                         COLUMN B     COLUMN C      COLUMN D

ROW 6               75,000          215                =SUM(C6/B6)*100000

Bristol County:  Barrington, Bristol, Warren

Kent County:  Coventry, East Greenwich, T.F. Green International Airport, Warwick, West Greenwich, West Warwick

Newport County:  Jamestown, Little Compton, Middletown, Newport, Portsmouth, Tiverton

Providence County:  Brown University, Burrillville , Central Falls, Cranston, Cumberland, East Providence, Foster, Glocester, Johnston, Lincoln, North Providence, North Smithfield, Pawtucket, Providence, Scituate, Smithfield, Woonsocket

Washington County:  Charlestown, Hopkinton, Narragansett, New Shoreham, North Kingstown, Richmond, South Kingstown, University of Rhode Island, Westerly

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Multi-county jurisdictional categories

Other:  Department of Environmental Management

State Police:  State Police Headquarters, State Police Hope Valley, State Police Lincoln Woods, State Police Portsmouth, State Police Scituate, State Police Wickford