Law Enforcement Officer Statistics in Billings, Yellowstone County, Montana by Year
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Category/Year 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Total Law Enforcement Employees 169 162 N/A 157 165 166 rate per 100K pop. 167 157 145 157 156 Total Law Enforcement Employees: Rate per 100K population 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 123.7 208.9 294.1 379.3 Billings Montana National Category/Year 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Total Officers 134 137 N/A 136 140 141 rate per 100K pop. 132 133 126 133 133 Total Officers: Rate per 100K population 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 113.8 162.6 211.4 260.2 Billings Montana National

2011 Footnotes

1. If a blank is presented in the arson column, it indicates that the FBI did not receive 12 complete months of arson data for that agency.
2. Because of changes in the state/local agency's reporting practices, figures are not comparable to previous years' data.
3. The population for the city of Mobile, Alabama, includes 55,819 inhabitants from the jurisdiction of the Mobile County Sheriff's Department.
4. The FBI determined that the agency's data were overreported. Consequently, those data are not included in this table.
5. The FBI determined that the agency did not follow national Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program guidelines for reporting an offense. Consequently, this figure is not included in this table.
6. The FBI determined that the agency's data were underreported. Consequently, those data are not included in this table.
7. The data collection methodology for the offense of forcible rape used by Chicago, Illinois, and the Minnesota state UCR Program (with the exception of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota) does not comply with national UCR Program guidelines. Consequently, its figures for forcible rape and violent crime (of which forcible rape is a part) are not published in this table.

2010 Footnotes

1. The FBI does not publish arson data unless it receives data from either the agency or the state for all 12 months of the calendar year.
2. The FBI determined that the agency's data were underreported. Consequently, those data are not included in this table.
3. The FBI determined that the agency's data were overreported. Consequently, those data are not included in this table.
4. The population for the city of Mobile, Alabama, includes 55,995 inhabitants from the jurisdiction of the Mobile County Sheriff's Department.
5. Because of changes in the state/local agency's reporting practices, figures are not comparable to previous years' data.
6. The FBI determined that the agency did not follow national Uniform Crime Reporting Program guidelines for reporting an offense. Consequently, this figure is not included in this table.
7. The data collection methodology for the offense of forcible rape used by Chicago, Illinois, and the Minnesota state UCR Program (with the exception of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota) does not comply with national UCR Program guidelines. Consequently, its figures for forcible rape and violent crime (of which forcible rape is a part) are not published in this table.

2009 Footnotes

1. The FBI does not publish arson data unless it receives data from either the agency or the state for all 12 months of the calendar year.
2. The FBI determined that the agency's data were underreported. Consequently, those data are not included in this table.
3. The FBI determined that the agency's data were overreported. Consequently, those data are not included in this table.
4. The population for the city of Mobile, Alabama, includes 55,995 inhabitants from the jurisdiction of the Mobile County Sheriff's Department.
5. The FBI determined that the agency did not follow national Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program guidelines for reporting an offense. Consequently, this figure is not included in this table.
6. Because of changes in the state/local agency's reporting practices, figures are not comparable to previous years' data.
7. The data collection methodology for the offense of forcible rape used by the Illinois and the Minnesota state UCR Programs (with the exception of Rockford, Illinois, and Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota) does not comply with national UCR Program guidelines. Consequently, their figures for forcible rape and violent crime (of which forcible rape is a part) are not published in this table.

2008 Footnotes

1. Includes offenses reported by the Zoological Police and the Metro Transit Police.
2. Limited data for 2008 were available for Illinois. See Data Declaration.
3. The data collection methodology for the offense of forcible rape used by the Illinois and the Minnesota state UCR Programs (with the exception of Rockford, IL, and Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN) does not comply with national UCR guidelines. Consequently, their state figures for forcible rape (with the exception of Rockford, IL, and Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN) have been estimated for inclusion in this table. Table 8, Offenses Known to Law Enforcement, provides the reported female forcible rape crime figure.

NOTE: Although arson data are included in the trend and clearance tables, sufficient data are not available to estimate totals for this offense. Therefore, no arson data are published in this table.

2007 Footnotes

1. Includes offenses reported by the Zoological Police and the Metro Transit Police.
2. Limited data for 2007 were available for Illinois. See Data Declaration.
3. The data collection methodology for the offense of forcible rape used by the Illinois and the Minnesota state UCR Programs (with the exception of Rockford, Illinois, and Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota) does not comply with national UCR guidelines. Consequently, their state figures for forcible rape (with the exception of Rockford, Illinois, and Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota) have been estimated for inclusion in this table. Table 8, Offenses Known to Law Enforcement, provides the reported female forcible rape crime figure.

NOTE: Although arson data are included in the trend and clearance tables, sufficient data are not available to estimate totals for this offense. Therefore, no arson data are published in this table.

2006 Footnotes

1. Includes offenses reported by the Zoological Police and the Metro Transit Police.
2. Limited data for 2006 were available for Illinois. See Data Declaration.
3. The data collection methodology for the offense of forcible rape used by the Illinois (with the exception of Rockford, Illinois) and the Minnesota state UCR Programs do not comply with national UCR guidelines. Consequently, their figures for forcible rape (with the exception of Rockford, Illinois) have been estimated for inclusion in this table. Table 8, Offenses Known to Law Enforcement, provides the reported female forcible rape crime figure.

NOTE: Although arson data are included in the trend and clearance tables, sufficient data are not available to estimate totals for this offense. Therefore, no arson data are published in this table.

2005 Footnotes

1. Includes offenses reported by the Zoological Police and the Metro Transit Police.
2. Limited data for 2005 were available for Illinois.

NOTE: Although arson data are included in the trend and clearance tables, sufficient data are not available to estimate totals for this offense. Therefore, no arson data are published in this table.

2004 Footnotes

1. Includes offenses reported by the Zoological Police and the Metro Transit Police.
2. Limited data for 2004 were available for Illinois. See Offense Estimation, Appendix I, for details.

NOTE: Although arson data are included in the trend and clearance tables, sufficient data are not available to estimate totals for this offense. Therefore, no arson data are published in this table.

2003 Footnotes

1. Includes offenses reported by the Zoological Police and the Metro Transit Police.
2. Limited data for 2003 were available for Illinois and Kentucky. See Offense Estimation, Appendix I, for details.

NOTE: Although arson data are included in the trend and clearance tables, sufficient data are not available to estimate totals for this offense.