Each year — coinciding with Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month — the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) releases a scorecard ranking U.S. states on their effectiveness in tracking and reporting animal cruelty statistics to the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).
Local police agencies began gathering information in 2016 on a voluntary basis after the FBI added animal cruelty statistics to their NIBRS.
AWI’s Animal Cruelty Reporting Scorecard ranks the top 20 states based on the suspected validity of their efforts to track animal cruelty crime. In 2017 and 2018, which are the last years for which figures are currently available, Delaware, Colorado and New Hampshire came out on top, while Massachusetts, West Virginia and Idaho fell to the bottom.
Country-wide adoption of the new policy has been slow, however, and not all states are participating. Even some of the participating states still haven’t compiled any animal cruelty statistics. In addition, a few states reported less than six incidents in 2018.
Breaking Down Animal Cruelty Statistics by State
Delaware reported 1,097 incidents, or 113 incidents per 100,000 people, compared with Massachusetts, West Virginia and Idaho, which each reported less than one incident per 100,000. Idaho ranked dead last with only seven reported incidents in 2018 (0.4 per 100,000).
AWI stresses that the disparity in the number of reported incidents isn’t necessarily because animal cruelty is more prominent in Delaware than in other states, but rather, that Delaware has a more efficient system for collating and reporting animal cruelty crime statistics. Whereas most states rely on their individual law enforcement agencies to report these crimes, Delaware has an Office of Animal Welfare that is mainly responsible for collecting such information.
“We realize that a newly recognized crime cannot appear in reports overnight,” said the senior advisor for AWI’s animal cruelty program Mary Lou Randour, Ph.D., “but we had hoped to see more progress by this point.”
What’s New…
Cruelty needs to STOP!
END ALL CRUELTY NOW IF SOMEONE DOSE SOMETHING TO AN ANIMAL REPORT IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE NO ANIMAL DERSEVES TO BE GOING THROUGH ANYTHING BUT TO BE LOVED AND TO BE IN A SAFE PLACE
Dear Mother and Father Earth.
The only way to save this planet and all its inhabitants on land and in vater is to start culling the human race down to 6 billion or more out of 7 billion.
Look around you on what’s left on Earth to becoming a push button throw away plastic spastic society eating and breathing money which is not an option.
This pandemic is just the tip of the iceberg. More to follow-come. Some say Nature is fighting back. Others say: The Wrath of God. I say good riddance as it appears Jewish Christ (unless he’s Chinese), Hitler, the Inquisition and others didn’t so a very good job they they?
One million dollars to anyone who can create what they have just have destroyed: LIFE. NEXT PLANET PLEASE. I challenge anyone who can live without nature-animals and breath carbon dioxide. Back to cannibalism-no worries Babies in sweet sour sauce. Yummy —- Mummy where are you”
Dog Bless. [email protected] The Silent Christian-Brilliantaire Man with a Nuclear Heart with ongoing warmth, love, care, dedication, commitment, ANIMALS 1st – HUMANS Zero as we still so primitive despite of our so call advance technology,
I love animals and they should be taken care of not used and abused
It’s really sad all these measures need to be taken due to the pandemic. All animals need to be treated humanely. Even animals for the meat industry or dairy industry. Humane is the high wored here. Nothing less should be tolerated. Anything classified inhumane should be illegal.
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We all live on this planet-we only have one place. all the animals have a right to live in peace .the animals are a lynchpin to all our world. they give us beauty, life, and comfort in many ways. As an animal l lover, supporter, and breeder, I cannot imagine life without horses, dogs, cats, in my world. the wildlife are there for a reason-we should not interfear!!!!!!! Since HUMANS are the most cruel species on the planet- it would stand to reason that we must be controlled by laws . WE MUST DO BETTER!!!!!!!!
Why doesn’t every state in the United States have a department of Animal Welfare? This is a very very sad commentary of the state of affairs concerning animals and abuse in this country! But kudos to Delaware
moche
Stop cruelty of animals!!!
I remembered when the FBI got involved in treating animal cruelty seriously in 2016. I was quite happy. But now I see that most US authorities are dismissing the urgency to solve and arrest offenders of horrid crimes against animals and in effect protecting the people from the monsters of the world.
Good that the FBI us taking animal cruelty seriously.