Does the UCR have any shortcomings other than nonreporting that might affect my state?
Some states’ statutes are not consistent with FBI definitions, or a state may be unable to comply with UCR reporting procedures. If this is the case, the state’s data are not available through the UCR program. For example, the Florida state UCR program was not able to comply with UCR reporting rules in 1996, and the FBI would not accept its data. In this case, however, JRSA obtained the annual Part 1 violent crime counts for Florida localities directly from the Florida state UCR program. Occasionally a local agency will be late in reporting its crime data to the state UCR program. As a result, this agency’s data may miss the deadline set by the FBI. In such cases, the data are not included in the annual data set when it is released. Another situation affecting the availability of data from the UCR program arises with the implementation of the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) in recent years. Some states that have switched to the new NIBRS system were unable to report da
