For official crime statistics, please visit CMPD's Crime Statistics page at:https://charlottenc.gov/CMPD/Safety/Pages/CrimeStats.aspx . Includes all CMPD incident report types, both criminal and non-criminal. Many reports are taken only to fully document a non-criminal circumstance like a missing person, lost/missing property, etc. Other reports are only taken to document the recovery of vehicles stolen in other jurisdictions. Each incident is classified based on FBI NIBRS standards by applying a national crime hierarchy to choose the highest offense assigned to each report. More information about NIBRS standards can be found on the FBI website. Cases where Highest NIBRS Code / Highest NIBRS Description is non-criminal offense (codes in the 800 series) should not be included in analysis of total “criminal” incident reports. In addition, data includes incidents with any clearance status, including unfounded cases. A clearance status of “Unfounded” means the report has been investigated and determined either to be a false report or to involve circumstances that do not actually constitute a crime.

FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Part I violent crime counts, updated monthly, aggregated to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) jurisdiction, Neighborhood Profile Area (NPA), and Violent Crime Hotspot (focus areas for the City's violence reduction initiative). Monthly crime counts cover the time frame Jan-2015 to present. Crime categories include homicide, rape, attempted rape, armed robbery, strong arm robbery, aggravated assault (gun, knife, other weapon, fists/feet/etc), and violent crime (total violent crime for all FBI UCR Part I violent crime types combined). Violent crime types of homicide, rape, and aggravated assault represent victim counts; violent crime types of robbery represent incident counts. These counting rules are to maintain compliance with FBI UCR guidelines. Additionally, monthly counts of non-fatal gunshot injury victims are included; these non-fatal shootings are not mutually exclusive from other violent crime categories and can include cases of aggrevated assault, robbery, and/or rape.

FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Homicide (Murder and Non-Negligent Manslaughter) victims in the CMPD jurisdiction. Murder and Non-Negligent Manslaughter is defined by the FBI as, "The willful (non-negligent) and illegal (non-justified) killing of one person by another." This dataset is updated nightly and includes geographic coordinates and the NPA (Neighborhood Profile Area) for each homicide (murder) victim when available.