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Crime Crime Statistics

National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)

by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Every year the FBI releases the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), which compiles crime data from law enforcement agencies across the US. The NIBRS was created to facilitate the compilation of the UCR by standardizing the formats of the crime data.

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Assessment

  • Open License No

  • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions No

    NIBRS details federal crimes in the USA, which differ from federal crimes in other jurisdictions.

  • Stakeholder Participation No

  • Consensus-Based Governance No

  • Extensions Yes

    Some states, such as Texas and South Carolina, include additional crime data as required by the state. These additional data are appended to the appropriate segment type or form a new segment

  • Human Readable Yes

  • Machine Readable Yes

    Formerly ASCII text formatted, with lines separated by a newline character. Currently an XML schema

  • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data Yes

    Released annually

  • Metadata Yes

    Metadata provided includes MARC21 XML, Dublin Core, and JSON

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