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In 1971, the Crime Commission was assigned
the responsibility for the collection of Uniform Crime Reports (UCR)
for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Law enforcement
agencies in the state are statutorily required to submit monthly
Uniform Crime Reports detailing the number of crimes reported or known
to them and the number of arrests. The law enforcement agencies
required to submit reports include sheriffs’ departments, police
departments, the State Patrol, two campus police departments, and the
State Fire Marshal. The crime statistics are forwarded to the FBI
UCR Program for inclusion in national crime statistics and for use by
state and local agencies and policy makers.
Law enforcement agencies may report data in one of two formats to the
Crime Commission. The first format is the traditional
Uniform Crime Report (UCR) and the second format is the Nebraska Incident-Based
Reporting System (NIBRS). The UCR format collects crime data
on eight crimes: murder-manslaughter,
forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft,
motor vehicle theft, and arson. Arrest data are collected on
28 categories of crime. NIBRS collects crime data on 22 crime
categories and 32 arrest categories. As of 2009, 66 law
enforcement agencies submitted data in the NIBRS format. For
publication purposes the NIBRS data is converted to UCR.
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