FBI Releases 2019 NIBRS Crime Data
The New Jersey Police Chief Magazine | December 2020
The FBI has released detailed data on nearly 7.7 million criminal offenses reported via the National Incident-Based Reporting System ( NIBRS ) in 2019 . The Uniform Crime Reporting ( UCR ) Program ’ s latest report , NIBRS , 2019 , presents data about victims , known offenders , and relationships for offenses reported in 23 categories with 52 offenses . It also presents arrest data for those crimes , as well as 10 additional categories for which only arrest data is collected .
Highlights of NIBRS , 2019
In 2019 , 8,497 law enforcement agencies , whose jurisdictions covered more than 146.5 million U . S . inhabitants , submitted NIBRS data to the UCR Program . These agencies accounted for 51.3 % of the 16,551 law enforcement agencies that submitted data to the UCR Program in 2019 . The remaining agencies submitted their data to the program via the Summary Reporting System ( SRS ). NIBRS agencies reported 6,572,870 incidents involving 7,688,645 offenses , 8,116,849 victims , and 6,543,257 known offenders . In addition , these agencies reported 3,931,924 arrestees . ( Currently , the FBI does not estimate for agencies that do not submit NIBRS data .)
Of the reported offenses , 59.6 % were crimes against property , 24.6 % were crimes against persons , and 15.8 % were crimes against society . ( Due to rounding , some percentage breakdowns may not add to 100 %.) Among these categories , the offenses most reported include larceny / theft offenses , assault offenses , and drug / narcotic offenses , respectively .
Victims
Victim types , collected for all offenses reported via NIBRS , include individuals , businesses , institutions , or society as a whole . For 2019 , the data regarding the 5,547,758 victims who were individuals reveal the following :
· Of these victims , 23.6 % were between 21 and 30 years old . · A little more than half ( 51 %) were female , 48.2 % were male , and the gender of 0.8 % of victims was unknown .
· Most victims ( 68 %) were white ; 23.3 % were Black or African American , 1.9 % were Asian , 0.7 % were American Indian or Alaska Native , and 0.5 % were Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander . The race of 5.6 % of victims was unknown .
Known Offenders
Law enforcement reported information about 6,543,257 known offenders , meaning some aspect of the suspect — such as age , gender , or race — was known .
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