Questions and Answers: Crime
Another in the Census Bureau's Question and Answer series.
Questions: Do you have statistics on Crime?
"Answer:
The Census Bureau releases some statistics on the criminal justice system in our data on government employment and finance, but none on crime, criminals, or victims. Our annual Statistical Abstract of the United States has a wide range of tables related to crime issues. Additional sources include:

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FedStats has crime data by Federal Judicial District.
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Housing and Urban Development's (HUD). State of the Cities This link to a non-federal Web site does not imply endorsement of any particular product, company, or content. database also has crime data.
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Agencies of the U.S. Department of Justice, notably the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Drug Enforcement Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons, offer many statistics on crime as well."