What are the kidnapping statistics for each state in the USA? The
stats should come from some reliable agency. A link to the website
with the stats is good enough for an answer.

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Request for Question Clarification by jackburton-ga on 23 Mar 2004 07:17 PST

I have found the following reports which you can download as PDF files:
  
* National Estimates of Missing Children: An Overview (Oct 2002)
  
* Nonfamily Abducted Children: National Estimates and Characteristics (Oct 2002)
 
* Children Abducted by Family Members: National Estimates and
Characteristics (Oct 2002)
 
* Runaway/Thrownaway Children: National Estimates and Characteristics (Oct 2002)
  
  
In the "Nonfamily Abducted Children" report, the abductions are not
broken down by state, but they are broken down by region - i.e.
Northeast, Midwest, South, West.
  
If this information is useful to you, please let me know.
  
jackburton-ga

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Clarification of Question by mtldaniel-ga on 23 Mar 2004 10:15 PST

Thanks for the fast reply...Are the stats from a governement agency? I
would really like to have the stats by state if possible. Thanks for
your effort.

Daniel.

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Request for Question Clarification by jackburton-ga on 23 Mar 2004 15:43 PST

The stats are from the "NISMART" studies (National Incidence of
Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children).
   
You can download the files here:
http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PageServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=242#10
   
Let me know if you find this information useful.

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Clarification of Question by mtldaniel-ga on 30 Mar 2004 16:05 PST

while it is somewhat useful it is not exactly what i need.

thanks,
daniel.

The FBI keeps Crime Statistics: 

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_02/html/web/offreported/offreported.html

will give you the 2002 national wrongdoing tally

I hope this answers your question

further addendum on the previous: fbi reports state:

"some serious crimes, such as Kidnapping, occur infrequently.
Therefore, for practical purposes, the reporting of offenses known is
limited to the selected crime classifications because they are the
crimes most likely to be reported and most likely to occur with
sufficient frequency to provide an adequate basis for comparison."

There are no national statistics kept by the government (perhaps they should)