FBI Crime in the United States Reports

Description:

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program compiles standardized incident reports from local law enforcement agencies in order to produce reliable, uniform, and national crime data. The UCR Program collects data on known offenses and persons arrested by law enforcement agencies, however, it does not record the findings of a court, coroner, jury, or the decision of a prosecutor. Previously, PolicyMap received county and city level data directly from the FBI that was used to publish incidents and rates of crime for counties, places, and states. Due to this source no longer being available, PolicyMap has transitioned to using crime estimates from the UCR Program’s Crime in the United States (CIUS) reports to publish state and MSA level data.

The CIUS report provides data on the volume and rate of violent and property crime offenses for the nation and by state using Summary Reporting System data and summarized data from the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). As the UCR Program is voluntary, offenses may be estimated by the UCR if an agency does not provide twelve months of complete data. The estimation process considers factors such as the following: population size covered by the agency; type of jurisdiction, e.g., police department versus sheriff’s office; and geographic location. The CIUS report provides crime statistics for all fifty states, Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs), and Metropolitan Divisions (MDs), which are subdivisions of MSAs that have a core population of at least 2.5 million people. More information on the CIUS estimation process can be found in the CIUS report’s methodology.

On January 1, 2021, the FBI’s UCR Program transitioned from the Summary Reporting System to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) for crime data collection. Due to this transition, participation in 2021 remained below a statistically acceptable level to be estimated at a national level. Therefore, the UCR program chose to publish a limited release of the CIUS report which did not include state and MSA estimates of crime data. PolicyMap is monitoring the UCR program page to see if a supplemental version of this report is published.

Limited data for 2022 were available for Florida, Illinois, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Limited data for 2023 were available for Florida. Due to data availability, The City of New York, NY is not included in the 2022 New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metro Area.