When we try to report a bomb threat against a school, we cannot complete the entry without the computer rejecting it. How are we to enter a bomb threat?
A bomb threat (absent any actual device) in the NIBRS is regarded as an offense of intimidation, which is considered a crime against a person, requiring at least one entry of “Individual” as the Type of Victim in the victim segment of the Group A Incident Report. A building (structure) cannot logically be intimidated. The UCR Program requirement entails reporting the person who received the bomb threat as the victim. The agency must determine how many individual victims (up to 999) it should report. Of course, if the threat turns out to be real (a bomb, or any device assimilating a bomb, is discovered), the agency must classify the incident as 13A Aggravated Assault.
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