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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jun 8.
Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2016 Apr 15;40(5):1111–1121. doi: 10.1111/acer.13047

Table 1.

Types and numbers of crime incidents, according to days of the week

On all days of the week On Sundays Sunday shares of crime incidents

Crime incidents occurring across Philadelphia between 1998 and 2011

Total Crime 1,071,256 [100%] 139,647 [100%] 13.0%
Violent Crime 267,299 [25.0%] 40,278 [28.8%] 15.1%
 Homicide         5,644         956 16.9%
 Aggravated Assault     129,612     21,051 16.2%
 Robbery     132,043     18,271 13.8%
Property Crime 733,573 [68.5%] 88,927 [63.7%] 12.1%
 Burglary     159,351     18,961 11.9%
 All Thefts     574,222     69,966 12.2%
Misdemeanor 70,384 [6.6%] 10,442 [7.5%] 14.3%
 Disorderly Conduct     65,343     9,735 14.9%
 Public Drunkenness       5,041        707 14.0%

Crime incidents occurring within the 1/8 mile radius surrounding the entire 94 W&S stores

Total Crime 79,222 [100%] 9,705 [100%] 14.6%
Violent Crime 16,134 [20.4%] 2,354 [24.3%] 16.2%
 Homicide        253          41 17.1%
 Aggravated Assault     6,395     1,096 12.8%
 Robbery     9,486     1,217 11.4%
Property Crime 57,379 [72.4%] 6,539 [67.4%] 12.6%
 Burglary      8,036     1,015 11.2%
 All Thefts     49,343     5,524 14.2%
Misdemeanor 5,709 [7.2%] 812 [8.4%] 15.3%
 Disorderly Conduct     4,741     724 9.1%
 Public Drunkenness        968       88 14.6%

Crime incidents occurring within the 1/8 mile radius surrounding the reduced 31 W&S stores

Total Crime 34,038 [100%] 4,221 [100%] 12.4%
Violent Crime 6,572 [19.3%] 932 [22.1%] 14.2%
 Homicide        114       18 16.0%
 Aggravated Assault     2,700     448 16.6%
 Robbery     3,758     466 12.4%
Property Crime 25,429 [74.7%] 2,978 [70.6%] 11.7%
 Burglary      3,753       479 12.8%
 All Thefts     21,676     2,499 11.5%
Misdemeanor 2,037 [6.0%] 311 [7.4%] 15.3%
 Disorderly Conduct     1,731     282 16.3%
 Public Drunkenness        306       29 9.5%

Note: Percentages in brackets indicate shares of given crime categories’ incident numbers over the total crime incident numbers.