Homicide Trends in the United States, 1980-2008: Annual Rates for 2009 and 2010

Data in this report are from the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports (SHR), unless otherwise noted. Th e SHR Program of the FBI collects yearly supplementary homicide data regarding homicides committed in the United States. Statistics in this report detail homicide trends by age, sex, and race, including homicides of children under age 5 and of persons age 65 or older. It examines the relationship between the victim and the off ender, particularly in cases of intimate and family homicide. Th e report also examines multiple victim and off ender homicides, circumstances surrounding the death, justifi able homicides, law enforcement offi cers killed, homicides cleared, and homicide trends by city size and weapon use.