FBI Uniform Crime Report

[hso]

Changes will go into effect on what we have called the Uniform Crime Report by this weekend. The UCR data will be replaced by the Crime Data Explorer.



UCR data tool has been replaced
The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) data tool has been replaced by the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer (CDE). Effective Friday, November 6, 2020, the UCR data tool will no longer be available and visitors will be automatically forwarded to the CDE. Please update your bookmarks accordingly.

The CDE is an interactive tool that presents charts and graphs that break down data in a variety of ways. The CDE also offers an Application Programming Interface (API) that allows developers to make interactive applications to share large amounts of data in meaningful ways. Users of the API will be able to access UCR data from 1979 to the current publication. UCR data can also be found in the Crime in the United States publications.

 

[Jeff White]

Until reporting becomes mandatory, is audited and the information collected becomes more specific the UCR will still have limited use.

With most PD’s using computer aided dispatch good information should be easy to collect. But we don’t do it that way for various reasons.