In 2024, the total number of people murdered in the Bahamas amounted to 120, up from 110 murders reported a year earlier. From 2012 to 2017, the number of victims remained well above 100. According to the latest data, it is estimated that around 31 people are murdered per 100,000 inhabitants in the Bahamas.

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The Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) collects crime reports from more than 500 New York State police and sheriffs’ departments. DCJS compiles these reports as New York’s official crime statistics and submits them to the FBI under the National Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program. UCR uses standard offense definitions to count crime in localities across America regardless of variations in crime laws from state to state. In New York State, law enforcement agencies use the UCR system to report their monthly crime totals to DCJS. The UCR reporting system collects information on seven crimes classified as Index offenses which are most commonly used to gauge overall crime volume. These include the violent crimes of murder/non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault; and the property crimes of burglary, larceny, and motor vehicle theft. Police agencies may experience reporting problems that preclude accurate or complete reporting. The counts represent only crimes reported to the police but not total crimes that occurred.

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Bahamas crime rate per 100K population for 2021 was 29.17, a 62.44% increase from 2020.

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<li>Bahamas crime rate per 100K population for 2020 was <strong>17.96</strong>, a <strong>23.52% decline</strong> from 2019.</li>
<li>Bahamas crime rate per 100K population for 2019 was <strong>23.48</strong>, a <strong>3.71% increase</strong> from 2018.</li>
<li>Bahamas crime rate per 100K population for 2018 was <strong>22.64</strong>, a <strong>25.95% decline</strong> from 2017.</li>
</ul>Intentional homicides are estimates of unlawful homicides purposely inflicted as a result of domestic disputes, interpersonal violence, violent conflicts over land resources, intergang violence over turf or control, and predatory violence and killing by armed groups. Intentional homicide does not include all intentional killing; the difference is usually in the organization of the killing. Individuals or small groups usually commit homicide, whereas killing in armed conflict is usually committed by fairly cohesive groups of up to several hundred members and is thus usually excluded.

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