Violent Crime in Brookfield and Wisconsin

Every year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation uses data reported to it by nearly every law enforcement agency in the country to build a report on crime in the United States. The report includes data on reported crimes, from theft to homicide, arrests, trends and how many officers are employed in communities. 

Patch has taken the Wisconsin data and put it into a searchable database. Fill in the name of a community to see the number of reported violent crimes in 2011, and click through to learn more about the types of offenses within each community. 

Find out about property crime in Brookfield and Wisconsin.

See the whole 2011 Crime in the United States report, as well as the 2010 report.

Below are some Brookfield area statistics pulled from the database. Search by community in the database to see the breakdown of what types of violent crimes were reported.

Ratio of 2011 violent crimes per 1,000 population: Community name, raw number of 2011 violent crimes reported

9.99: Milwaukee, 5,969
3.28: West Allis, 199
2.15: Wauwatosa, 100
1.95: Brookfield Town, 12
1.62: Butler, 3
1.39: Glendale, 18
1.38: Greenfield, 51
1.30: Waukesha, 92
1.12: Saukville, 5
0.87: Oak Creek, 30
0.71: Greendale, 10
0.66: Brookfield City, 25
0.62: Port Washington, 7
0.61: Shorewood, 8
0.61: Cedarburg, 7
0.45: Germantown, 9
0.43: Mequon, 10
0.29: Muskego, 7
0.25: Menomonee Falls, 9
0.25: Brown Deer, 3
0.19: Oconomowoc, 3
0.14: Whitefish Bay, 2
zero: Elm Grove, 0