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