Improve the safety of people and property
Indicator 1: Reduced preventable loss of life, injury, or property due to criminal activities, accidents, and natural or man-made disasters.
1a: Incidence of Property and Violent Crimes per 1,000 Population
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Description: The numbers of violent and property crimes are reported by individual police departments throughout the state to the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs (WASPC) as part of the federal Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) system. WASPC, in turn, transmits this data to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The FBI developed the reporting standards. The rate of property and violent crimes per 1,000 population is derived by using the number of events and dividing it by the relevant population. Since the majority of crimes are committed by younger men, the denominator is made up of men aged 12 to 39. Source: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1b: Drinking Driver Fatalities per 1 Billion Vehicle Miles
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Description: These data are taken from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), which was designed by the National Center for Statistics and Analysis (NCSA) of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The Washington State FARS team provides local data to the national FARS system. The team makes use of records from multiple sources. Source: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1c: Unintentional Non-Fatal Injury Hospitalizations and Fatal Injuries per 100,000 Population
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1d: Direct Insured Property/Casualty Losses (excluding Accident and Health)
Inflation-Adjusted to 2000 Dollars
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Note: The inflation factor used is the Chain-Weight Implicit Price Deflator for Personal Consumption Expenditures available on page 140 of the June 2006 Washington Economic and Revenue Forecast. Source: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Indicator 2: Increased emergency response readiness.
2a: State Residents per Emergency Responder (Police/Fire/EMT)
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Description: The number of emergency responders reported here are those reported by the Department of Health and Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs (WASPC). The Department of Health reported the number of first responders, EMTs, paramedics by source (i.e. private service, fire service, hospital service, law enforcement, EMS district, and other). WASPC provided the number of law enforcement first responders. The emergency responders from both sources were added together for the total. Sources: |
2b: Percent of K-12 Students in Public Schools with Geo-Mapping Completed
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Description: In response to recent legislation (House Bill 1218), school mapping information has been collected and entered into an emergency preparedness and incident response system. Schools that include high school students have been prioritized. In calculating the percent of students in schools that had been mapped, enrollment data was used. Sources: | ||||||||||||
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Indicator 3: Increased citizen confidence of their safety within their communities.
Awareness of Neighborhood Crime, 2004 and 2006
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Description: The Washington State Population Survey is a random telephone survey of households in Washington State designed to be representative of all state residents. In surveys conducted in 2004 and 2006, approximately half of the survey respondents were asked, "Which of the following types of serious crimes do you know to have occurred in your neighborhood in the past 12 months?" The table and chart show the percent of respondents answering "yes" by type of crime. Sources: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Last modified: December 18, 2006
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