Reader Valerie Sheppeard-Hankins asks: "Good day, where can I find the VI Crime Statistics for 2011? I sent an email to the VIPD through their website, and haven’t received a response. Thank you."

The V.I. Police Department released 2011 crime statistics just this week while announcing they were sending data to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for inclusion in its Uniform Crime Reporting program, the national criminal statistics clearing house, police officials announced Tuesday. See that story in the related links below.

The FBI website has data from the 50 states and this year the territory contributed its information to that database, but it is not yet available online. Those 2011 statistics are provided again below, along with some information from past years.

Murders
There were 41 murders recorded in the territory in 2011, for a rate of 38.5 per 100,000 population. This is a 26 percent reduction from the number recorded in 2010, which was 57 murders and two shooting deaths categorized as justified or self-defense. There were 56 V.I. murders in 2009.

Details from the police briefs on each are listed in the Source articles on yearly homicide-data data listed in related links below.

• St. Thomas recorded 16 murders in 2011. This is a decrease of 46 percent compared to the number recorded in 2010 which was 28 murders.
• St. Croix recorded 27 murders in 2011. This is a decrease of 6.9 percent compared to the number recorded in 2010 which was 29 murders.
• St. John did not record any murders in 2011 or 2010.

Robberies
There were 275 robberies recorded in the territory in 2011. This is a 2.83 percent reduction in the number of robberies recorded in 2010 which was 283.

• St. Thomas recorded 164 robberies in 2011. This is an increase of 1.23 percent compared to the number recorded in 2010 which was 162 robberies.
• St. Croix recorded 108 robberies in 2011. This is a decrease of 8.47 percent compared to the number recorded in 2010 which was 118 robberies.
• St. John recorded 3 robberies in 2011. Three robberies were also recorded in 2010.

Burglaries
In 2011 the territory recorded 1371 burglaries. This is an increase of 2.08 percent in the number recorded in 2010 which was 1343 burglaries.

• St. Thomas recorded 760 burglaries in 2011. This is an increase of 6.44 percent compared to the number recorded in 2010 which was 714 burglaries.
• St. Croix recorded 557 burglaries in 2011. This is an increase of 2.77 percent compared to the number recorded in 2010 which was 542 burglaries.
• St. John recorded 54 burglaries in 2011. This is a decrease of 37.93 percent compared to the number recorded in 2010 which was 87 burglaries.