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GGD-94-29R 1 (1994-01-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacklx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Uited States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 General Government Division B-255277 January 20, 1994 The Honorable John Conyers, Jr. Chairman, Committee on Government Operations House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: In response to your request that we examine racial disparities in arrests, we agreed to analyze national data on arrests and offenders for four serious crimes in order to (1) identify and measure any racial differences in arrests and (2) compare any such racial differences in arrests to racial distributions in offenders as reported by crime victims. We examined data for 1986 through 1990. We used the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Uniform Crime Report (UCR) data on the race of persons arrested and the Bureau of Justice Statistics' National Crime Survey (NCS) data on the race of offenders as reported to the police by crime victims. We limited our review to four crimes of violence--rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault--for which data were available on the race of persons arrested and the persons identified as offenders. Victims of these four types of crimes were able to identify the race of their assailants because of the personal contact involved in the crimes. Three of these crimes--rape, robbery, and aggravated assault --are included in the FBI's Crime Index.' These three crimes account for more than 95 percent of reported arrests for serious crimes of violence in a given year. Simple assault is a crime of violence involving personal contact between victims and offenders, and it accounts for more than 75 percent of reported arrests for other crimes of violence. We excluded murder and nonnegligent manslaughter from our review because they are not part of the NCS. Also, we did not review serious property crimes, such as burglary, larceny, automobile theft, or arson, even though these crimes are recorded in the NCS because victims of these types of 'The FBI's Crime Index includes the crimes of murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, larceny, and arson.

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