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USER GUIDE OPERATION DO THE MATH 2015   
Statistics and Data
Written by Norma Jean Almodovar      
UPDATE 09/15/2017

Operation Do the Math- a guide for activists and allies to utilize the data and information in this online resource
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Be sure to check out the posters for printing which contain summaries of the numbers from this page, as well as lists of pedophile/ rapist/ domestically violent law enforcement agents who are given the power and authority over the lives of vulnerable people in the sex industry- links to which can be found on the front page of “Police Prostitution and Politics.com”
 
This user guide will help you navigate the massive amount of information on this website. The spreadsheets were created using the FBI stats from its various tables, primarily tables #5 (reported crimes in the US- by state) and #69 (reported arrests from each state.)

For the spreadsheets with data relating to the age and gender of those arrested for prostitution and disorderly conduct, the following tables were used: (these links go to the 2015 tables; all the other years can be found by searching for “Crime in the United States” by year- then locate the categories under which they are classified - “persons arrested” and “offenses known to law enforcement” where you can find “reported crimes.”
• FBI CRIME IN THE US: Table # 39- 2015 arrests by age- MALE
• FBI CRIME IN THE US: Table # 40- 2015 arrests by age FEMALE
• FBI CRIME IN THE US: Table # 42 - 2015 arrests by GENDER

Also used were the 1991 to 2015 “Criminal Victimization” reports.
Estimated law enforcement agents in each state “Police Employee Data”
Table #77 for law enforcement agents by state, Table #78 for city by city numbers of law enforcement agents.

***Be aware that the numbers vary from one FBI table to the next- sometimes significantly- for the exact same ‘crimes’ and number of arrests. Example- in 2013, the FBI spreadsheet data for the state of Alaska reported there were 647 persons arrested for prostitution, when in fact there were only 47 persons arrested. FBI said it was a typo, but will not correct it because the documents were already published.
 
Part I is a summary of the other sections, giving overviews of some of the statistics contained within the corresponding section. This is a good section to review the content in all the other parts of this document. All of the sections or parts are available as the whole document or as individual pages, which can be identified by the thumbnail images below the section or part.
Parts II A and II B contain spreadsheets with all the reported crimes and arrests, state by state, analyzing the percentages and numbers of the following:

• How many reported crimes were there in each state for the year 2015? from table #5- total all states 9,225,197

• Of those reported crimes,what percentage of them were solved by arrest? 18.2% or 1,675,118 arrests for reported crimes

• How many arrests were made (reported to the FBI) for police instigated activity (NOT reported crimes)? 7,403,757 and how many arrests total were made (according to table #69)? 9,078,875 (this differs from the cover page for the section on the FBI website, off by 1,549,934 arrests…. FBI page says “Nationwide, law enforcement made an estimated 10,797,088 arrests in 2015” but that number doesn’t match the number in table #69

• What percentage of all arrests made were for non reported “crimes” vs. reported crimes where the victim asked for help? 81.76%

• What percentage of reported rapes and sexual assaults (431,840) were solved through arrests (19,304) of alleged rapists? 4.5% [The number of reported rapes are from table # 5 and the number of reported violent sexual assaults combined with rapes  can be found in the “Criminal Victimization” 2015 report, page # 2]

• How many arrests for prostitution were there in 2015? 34,240 - how many of these were minors? 457
[note- you can find the number of prostitution arrests in Parts II A and II B, Parts III A and III B and in Part VI]

• Given the number of reported arrests and the number of estimated law enforcement agents in each state, on average, how many arrests does each cop make per year? [14.38 arrests] Estimated number of law enforcement agents in the US in 2015 (from FBI Table # 77) 631,517 (equation: 9,078,875/ 631,517= 14.38).

The FBI report states that arrests for traffic related violations are not included in these numbers. However, there are far more arrests than the ones reported by law enforcement agencies to the FBI. Laws involving ‘quality of life’ municipal code enforcement tickets which are issued.These arrests are also not included in the FBI reports, but they do take up the time and resources of law enforcement, leaving little time to solve REAL, REPORTED crimes.

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