The historical development of the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program came about in 1930’s. The UCR Program began in the 1930's when Congress authorized the U.S. attorney general to survey crime in America. Not only to survive crime but to survey it by uniforming crime statistics. In order to get information to the program, law enforcement agencies provide crime information, with data coming from city to city, country, colleges, universities and state departments. These citizens crime reports included reports from different cities, states and even millions of people were covered by the first survey. If this happened during only the first year of operation, it definitely sounds like it’s going to be successful for years to come, and will definitely inform the world with reported crimes throughout the United States.
The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program reports a lot of …show more content…
Before the UCR Program only included summary crime data but now their are modifications like more offenses, collects weapon information for all violent assaults, it now does distinguishes between attempted and completed crimes, restructures definition of assault, and even records each offense occurring in an incident.
The data that will be reported under the new UCR/NIBRS differ from the crime statistics reported under the traditional UCR Program through the goals of the NIBRS. Which are to - “Enhance the quantity, quality, and timeliness of crime-data collection by the law enforcement agencies and to improve the methodology used for compiling, analyzing, auditing and publishing the collected data.” (Schmalleger, F.2004 “P. 27”) While breaking down and combining crime offenses data into specific information. Now even colleges will be required to publish annual security reports as
The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program reports a lot of …show more content…
Before the UCR Program only included summary crime data but now their are modifications like more offenses, collects weapon information for all violent assaults, it now does distinguishes between attempted and completed crimes, restructures definition of assault, and even records each offense occurring in an incident.
The data that will be reported under the new UCR/NIBRS differ from the crime statistics reported under the traditional UCR Program through the goals of the NIBRS. Which are to - “Enhance the quantity, quality, and timeliness of crime-data collection by the law enforcement agencies and to improve the methodology used for compiling, analyzing, auditing and publishing the collected data.” (Schmalleger, F.2004 “P. 27”) While breaking down and combining crime offenses data into specific information. Now even colleges will be required to publish annual security reports as