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• Helps give context to specific crime
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problems such as drug/narcotics and
sex offenses, as well as modern crime
issues like animal cruelty, identity
theft, and computer hacking.
• Provides greater analytic flexibili-
ty. Through NIBRS, data users can see
many more facets of crime, as well as
relationships and connections among
these facets, than SRS provides.
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The Road to NIBRS
Is your agency ready to transition
to NIBRS?
3. Countdown to NIBRS: 2018 is a Pivotal Year for
Crime Statistics (Flyer)
1. Procure NIBRS software/hardware
4. A Guide to Understanding NIBRS
2. Determine if FBI or state-specific tech specs 5. Effects of NIBRS on Crime Statistics (2014 data)
will be used
6. NIBRS Quick Facts
3. Map state statutes to NIBRS offense codes
7. 30 Questions and Answers About NIBRS Transi-
4. Establish a records management system
tion
(RMS) capable of capturing NIBRS
5. Implement NIBRS RMS
Courtesy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
6. Data integration assistance for NIBRS sub originally posted at https://www.fbi.gov/ser-
missions via XML
vices/cjis/ucr/nibrs.
7. Pretest data against NIBRS validation rules
8. NIBRS pre-certification tool for flat file sub-
missions
9. NIBRS XML Conformance Testing Assistant
Here’s how to get there:
NIBRS Toolbox for Law
Enforcement
1. NIBRS Readiness Assessment for Law Enforce-
ment Agencies
2. Law Enforcement Agency Incident-Based Re-
porting Playbook: Guide to Implementing an
IBR System
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