Introduction The inferential analysis refers to a method that allows examining the relationship between the two phenomena. The most common approach used by analysts using inferential methods is a regression coefficient. One example of this method is the correlation between neighborhood characteristics and crime rates collected by the Office of Policy Development and Research (“About PD&R”, n.d.). The following is the example of the report that presents readers with the findings of inferential analysis – “strong social organization, youth job opportunities, immigration, and residential stability are among several neighborhood characteristics associated with lower crime rates” (“Neighborhoods and violent crime,” 2016, para. 5). Hence, this method is valuable when a need for evaluating the correlation between the two factors is present. One should note that this is not the only approach to the matter, and alternative strategies such as the correlation coefficient exist (Ganti, 2019). This method allows the analyst to see a statistically significant relationship between the variables explored. In the case discussed above, the national agency would be able to examine the nature of the correlation between different factors, or to what extent socioeconomic factors impact crime rates. Descriptive methods are appropriate when there is a need to assess information about specific demographic characteristics and explored phenomena. One example is the Bureau of Justice National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), which is a questionnaire distributed to crime victims (“Data collection: National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS),” 2017). From it, one can find out which percentage of a specific crime was reported to the police in a given time. Usually, this approach to statistics is applied when there is a necessity to present percentages, rates, or counts. Hence, in this case, the public safety agency used the measures of frequency to conduct the analysis. An alternative to this approach would be to include statistics from other countries and apply the measure of position for comparing the data, which would allow determining the relationship between data sets. Report The following report aims to explain the main trends of crimes gathered from data collected as part of the Uniform Crime Report. Firstly, the total violent crime committed from 1985, when the data was first collected until the timeframe for which one has a recent statistics, which is 2014, a total number of 1,514,701 cases of violent crimes were reported by this Police department (“Estimated crime in California,” n.d.; “Uniform crime reporting,” n.d.). Next, the median of these crimes is 50968, suggesting that this is the average value for the crimes between 1985 and 2014, and the mean is 50490. Over the course of calculating the mode, an error occurred suggesting that there the number of violent crimes each year differ and no repetitions occur. The maximum number of crimes occurred in 1991 and totaled 89,875 cases. A record low minimum number of violent crimes was recorded in 2013 with 16,524 instances, and the range is for this data set is 56214. Murder and non-negligent manslaughter can be defined as an act of killing a person by another individual. This incorporates instances