Caden Munson

ISM – Fall Semester – 18

Final Product
The following graphs and tables demonstrate information about misdemeanor crimes in county
courts across the state of Texas from 2007 – 2017.
*All the empirical data come from annual statistic reports for the Texas Judiciary*

Percentages of Misdemeanors 2007-2017

Traffic Drugs
11% 15%

Assault
13%

Theft
DWI 37%
24%

Drugs Theft DWI Assault Traffic

While theft accounts for the largest fraction of misdemeanors, it has also decreased the most over
the ten-year period.
The second largest offense by percentage is DWIs. From 2007 to 2017 there were 983,167 cases
of driving while intoxicated. Fortunately, there is a downward trend in the data and social
programs like Click-It or Ticket have been successful in reducing the frequency of the offenses
even though they have plateaued in recent years.

Traffic and Assault, which account for the lowest percentages of misdemeanors show similar
trends in declining rates.
Finally, the most interesting statistic was possession of drugs including marijuana. This was the
only example out of the five most common misdemeanors that had an overall increase in the
number of offenses.

Below is the raw numerical data collected from the annual statistics reports
Year Drugs Theft DWI Assault Traffic
2007 56,194 254,749 122,426 58,197 64,051
2008 60,179 246,965 124,596 59,998 71,329
2009 60,172 233,779 125,227 59,838 54,823
2010 60,990 223,572 123,409 61,532 55,540
2011 41,702 110,618 71,143 36,196 35,921
2012 40,636 93,432 70,225 36,326 30,431
2013 42,113 90,904 68,590 34,269 27,627
2014 43,097 65,897 70,710 35,128 24,368
2015 46,382 64,058 69,955 35,651 28,429
2016 77,373 49,255 71,435 45,884 35,356
2017 78,241 35,596 65,451 41,848 28,552

Drugs Theft DWI Assault Traffic

Total 607,079 1,468,825 983,167 504,867 456,427