MICR Training

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Welcome

• MICR Training
• October 26, 2011

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History of Crime Reporting
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What is Uniform Crime Reporting
The uniform collection and reporting of crime
data from city, county, state, and federal law
enforcement agencies.

• Began in 1927 by the International Association of
  Chiefs of Police
• First Uniform Crime Reporting publication in 1929
• LEOKA reporting began in 1937

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UCR Program History

• 1952 Began contributing data on age, race, and
  sex of arrestees
• 1962 Began collecting data on murder victims
  including age, race, sex, and weapon used
• 1968 Michigan legislation was passed for UCR
  participation from all law enforcement agencies
  (PA 319 of 1968)
• 1978 Congress mandated the collection of arson
  data

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UCR Program History

• Collection of ethnicity began
• (optional in 1987)
• 1988 National Incident Based Reporting System
  (NIBRS) was adopted by the FBI to form a
  uniform reporting method for all states
• 1990 Passage of the Hate Crime Statistics Act

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FUN FACTS

• Michigan was the first state to go from summary
  reporting to the new uniform crime reporting
• AND
• Michigan was also one of the pilot states to
  begin reporting to NIBRS.

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UCR Program History

• 2003 Deaths in Custody Reporting Act was
  federally mandated with quarterly reporting of
  deaths of offenders prior to arrest
• 2005 Michigan became the first state to have a
  large metropolitan agency (Detroit PD)
  submitting incident-based data
• 2008 LEOKA reporting was captured
  electronically through MICR, eliminating the
  paper reporting of officers killed or assaulted

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FBI Publications

• Each year the nations data is published in three
  annual reports
• Crime in the United States (two major crime
  categories)
• Violent Crimes (murder, rape, robbery,
  aggravated assault)
• Property Crimes (burglary, larceny, MVT, arson)
• Hate Crime Statistics
• Law Enforcement Officers Killed and
  Assaulted

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Benefits to Incident-Based Reporting

• Statistics are used to generate laws and obtain
  state/federal grants
• Standardizes and Identifies
• - common crime problems and/or trends
• - characteristics of victims and offenders
• - dates and locations of crime
• Furnishes information on major crime issues
• Increases public awareness of specific crime
  activities facing law enforcement and
  communities in different areas in the U.S.
• Data is available from all levels of law
  enforcement and allows
• future means for data sharing and crime mapping

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Year-end Deadlines

• The anticipated deadline for reporting 2011 data
  to MICR is March 3, 2012.

• An agency needs 12 months of complete crime data
  to be compliant with the FBIs year-end deadline.
  Non-compliance will result in your agency not
  being published in the FBI Crime in the U.S.
  The agency may also be in jeopardy of losing
  federal funding.

• MIP (most in population) agencies with over
  100,000 in population have two deadlines every
  year, a preliminary reporting of January June
  and the year-end deadline. Data from the MIPs
  are used to calculate early crime trends in the
  U.S. for the reporting year.

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