When the location of an incident is a motel, hotel, or self-storage unit, and several rooms/units are broken into, is that counted more than one burglary?
No. The Hotel Rule, which applies in this instance, states, “If a number of units under a single manager are burglarized and the offenses are most likely to be reported to the police by the manager rather than the individual tenants/renters, the burglary should be reported as a single incident” (p. 13). UCR Handbook, NIBRS edition. In the NIBRS, the FBI expanded this rule to include mini-storage/self storage facilities. The number of rooms, units, suites, storage compartments, etc., which were broken into is reported in Data Element 10 (Number of Premises Entered) (NIBRS Volume 1: Data Collection Guidelines, August 2000, p. 15).
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