Springfield Property Crimes Increase: FBI 2016 Crime Report

SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, PA – The FBI released its 2016 crime report recently, and we have the details on crime rates in Springfield Township.

The information comes from the FBI’s annual report Crime in the United States. The publication is a statistical compilation of offense, arrest, and police employee data reported by law enforcement agencies voluntarily participating in the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, according to the FBI.

According to FBI data, property crimes in Spring jumped from 2015 to 2016, while violent crimes went down ever so slightly.

2016 saw 690 property crimes, while 2015 had 574.

The increase comes from more than 100 more theft/larceny incidents in 2016, which totaled 638. 2015 had 531 of those incidents.

Violent crimes dipped from 19 in 2015 to 15 in 2016.

Violent crimes include robbery, aggravated assault, rape, and murder/non-negligent manslaughter.

Data shows just nine aggravated assaults, five robberies, and one rape in 2016.

Robberies went down the most, as 2015 had 11 incidents.

Nationally, the FBI said the 2016 statistics showed an increase in the estimated number of violent crimes, with a 4.1 percent rise when compared with 2015 data. Nationally, property crimes dropped 1.3 percent.

The 2016 statistics show the estimated rate of violent crime was 386.3 offenses per 100,000 inhabitants nationally, and the estimated rate of property crime was 2,450.7 offenses per 100,000 inhabitants. The violent crime rate rose 3.4 percent compared with the 2015 rate, and the property crime rate declined 2.0 percent.

The UCR Program report for 2016 included information from 16,782 agencies across the country, out of 18,481 city, county, university and college, state, tribal, and federal agencies eligible to participate,
the FBI said.

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