Uniform Crime Report

Video: National Crime Victimization Survey
Uniform Crime Report now the Uniform Crime Report is a useful tool in measuring crime but it only measures crime that gets reported to the police so the National Crime Victimization survey the NC vs measures crime from victims who don't report to the police as well and this was created because we realize that it was crime that is being committed that isn't being reported to the police that should be measured in the Uniform Crime Report gets their statistics from police departments so if you don't call the police and report the crime then we can report the crime to the Uniform Crime Report so that's what I'm going to talk about today the national crime victimization survey in 1973 the Department of …show more content…
numbers would be different than the uniform crime report on the amount of crime I'm that is reported it would also look at the self protection measures that were taken by the victims it will also measure whether there was substance you substance abuse or alcohol use during the crime and the benefit was that people who even if they didn't report the crime are now able to have a voice and say yes they were victims of a crime and here's an example in 2009 the Uniform Crime Report reported 88,000 drapes now we know that there's that dark fear of crime and we know that rape is a very underreported crime so the Uniform Crime Report reported 88,000 and the n CBS reported a hundred and twenty-six thousand so there are thousands tens of thousands of rapes that didn't go reported to the police but it doesn't mean that they didn't occur so before we get into why people don't report crime which could be because they are embarrassed or sometimes it's a situation where they feel that they put themselves in a situation so they don't want to report it to the police or they themselves are involved in some type of illegal activity or just that embarrassment of the family of the police that they don't want to report it and that's a …show more content…
surveyed so it's not every American that is victim of crime but because it we tried to get a a good sampling of about 68,000 people with all those interviews excuse me all those people so we do try to get a sampling but it's not going to be a hundred percent in the previous years there has been some funding issues in the sampling sizes have changed and instead of doing it annually they have been combining multiple years of data so the data isn't as accurate because they've been combining multiple years of data and that is just because of budget restraints through the government now they're still it's still the most comprehensive victimization report that's out there even with the changes but we need to understand that there is that dark number of crime and this is one way to try to get some of those dark numbers into our system so that we can prepare our plans are criminology statistics and try to figure out how we're going to stop prime

Compstat: discourage victims from reporting their misfortunes to refuse to accept complains to record keeping system, downgrade charges Watchdog panel 2011 (statistics determined to be manipulated)
No statistically significant improvements in reporting rates have been achieved since

Show More