Here’s the numbers. According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, in 2022 there were about 380,000 arrests for violent crimes (murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault). • The U.S. population is about 333 million. • That works out to roughly 0.11% of the population arrested for a violent crime in a given year. The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reports that about 60% of state prisoners are serving time for violent offenses. • In 2022, there were around 1.2 million people in state and federal prisons. • That means about 700,000–750,000 people are imprisoned for violent crimes. • As a share of the total U.S. population, that’s roughly 0.2%.

That assumes 0 repeat offenders.