The
Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program was conceived in
1929
by the International Association of Chiefs of Police to meet
a need for reliable, uniform crime statistics for the nation.
In 1930, the FBI was tasked with collecting, publishing,
and
archiving those statistics. Today, several annual statistical
publications, such as the comprehensive Crime
in the United States, are produced from
data provided by nearly 17,000 law enforcement agencies
across the United States.
Other
annual publications, such as Hate
Crime Statistics and Law
Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted address
specialized facets of crime such as hate crime or
the murder and assaults of law enforcement officers respectively.
Special
studies, reports, and monographs prepared using data mined
from the UCR's large database are published each year as well.
In addition to these reports, information about the National
Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)
and UCR Frequently
Asked Questions are also available on this site.
Note: Most documents on this site
are prepared in PDF (Portable Document Format). Selected tables
are also available in Microsoft Excel format.
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Crime
in the United States
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Crime
in the United States (CIUS) is an annual publication in
which the FBI compiles volume and rate of crime offenses for
the nation, the states, and individual agencies. This report
also includes arrest, clearance, and law enforcement employee
data.
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Each
year's edition of Hate Crime Statistics presents data
regarding incidents, offenses, victims, and offenders in reported
crimes that were motivated in whole or in part by a bias against
the victim's perceived race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation,
or disability.
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Law
Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted
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The
FBI annually compiles data concerning the felonious and
accidental
line-of-duty deaths and assaults of law enforcement officers
and presents these statistics in Law Enforcement Officers
Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA). Tabular presentations include
weapons used, use of body armor, and circumstances surrounding
murders and assaults of officers.
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Additional
UCR Publications |
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This
publication presents supplemental UCR statistics auxiliary
to those published in Crime in the United States with regard
to age-specific arrest rates and race-specific arrest rates
for the years 1993-2001. |
National
Incident-Based Reporting System |
In
response to law enforcement's need for more flexible, in-depth
data, the Uniform Crime Reporting Program formulated the
National
Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). NIBRS presents comprehensive,
detailed information about crime incidents to law enforcement,
researchers, governmental planners, students of crime,
and
the general public. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division
conducted the pilot demonstration of this program in 1987.
Since then, implementation of NIBRS has been commensurate
with the resources, abilities, and limitations of the contributing
law enforcement agencies. Although participation grows
steadily,
data is still not pervasive enough to make broad generalizations
about crime in the United States. However, several NIBRS
studies
and monographs are available on this site that demonstrate
the great utility of NIBRS. Data collection and submission
guidelines and NIBRS Frequently
Asked Questions are available as well to help law enforcement
agencies with the implementation of and participation in NIBRS.
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Manuals
Many of these publications
are in PDF (Portable Document Format). To view them you
will need to have the latest version of the Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in installed on your
computer. The Reader can be downloaded at no cost from
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If you have trouble accessing any of the Uniform Crime
Reports, please contact a member of the Communications
Unit staff by telephone at 304-625-4995; by facsimile
at 304-625-5394; or by Internet at cjis_comm@leo.gov.
E-mail data requests cannot be processed unless requesters
include their full name, a mailing address, and a contact
telephone number.
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