Police agencies in extremely high crime rate areas such as Texas will only report the worst offense to the national statistics in order to make crime look not as bad as it is. Threatening, assault, rape, will all be washed for the worst crime on the docket. This way they *massage* the facts of crime in such high risk states to make things look better, softer. There is **a lot** of gun violence, rape, and burglary/theft charges that get swept under the rug. They also often will not report cases in current investigation, meaning cold and unsolved cases don't contribute to that states crime rate. Until time for budgetary concerns and re-evaluations of police forces come up. Near this time they will begin reporting cold, unresolved, and currently under investigation. They'll also begin splitting up cases in order to report multiple offenses and artificially, or rather... Closer to the **truth**, report crime "*hikes*" in order to avoid budget cuts. This is also why you see some European countries, and even Canada, having *high* crime rates in certain types of crimes... Its not necessarily that they are higher, its that they are more transparent. Sweedan has this huge thing about rape being extremely high, when taking into account the USA's **dark figure of crime** it actually has severely lower rape statistics and physical assaults.