What Uniform Crime Reporting Part 1 violent crime data are available for tribes?
Very few tribal police report Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) data directly to the FBI or through a state UCR program. However, the BIA does collect some crime information on a volunatary basis. BIA then aggregates these reports into a single report that it makes to the Department of Interior (DOI), which then reports the data along with data for other DOI law enforcement agencies (such as the U.S. Park Police) to the Uniform Crime Reporting Section of the FBI. The aggregated numbers appear at the end of table 11 in the FBI’s annual Crime in the United States report, but data for individual tribes are not published. BIA has made some data, in hard copy format, available to JRSA for use in the JABG formula. However, data are not available for all federally-recognized tribes, and data quality may vary from year to year and from tribe to tribe. As a result, states are given the option of whether to include these data in the formula calculations.
