Uniform Crime Report

The collection Of crime statistice for the United Sattes began 85-90 years ago. Before this time noone knew the exent of crime in the United States. in 1937 the annaul meeting of the International Association of the Cheifs of Police was held. Here the commitie on Uniform Crime Repots was appointed to respond for the demand for national crime data. The congross authorized the Fedral Bureau of Investigation also know as the FBI to collect and compile nationwide data on crime. THey did this threw the Uniform Crime Report (UCR). The purpose of the Uniform Crime Report was to was to determain weather crime is increasing or decreasing or if there is a crime wave and to pinpoint geographic vareyations. Recording this and sharing with the public was First issued monthly, Quartly until 1942, Semiannually throughtout 1957 and annually since 1958. The FBI reports did have there problems tho, They were incomplete and structually bias, this resulated in ,may myths about crime in the unoted states.Now thos reporting in 2006 more then 17,000 law enforcement agencies are contributing to crime data, this representing more then 93 % of the population.

Some of this Data is shown that every 3.6 seconds there is one crime index offense, one property crime every 3.2 seconds, one violent crime every 22.2 seconds, one burglary every 14.4 seconds, one Larceny-Theft every 4.8 seconds one motor vehicle theift every 26.4 seconds, one Murder every 30.9 Minutes, one Forcible Rape every 5.7 Minutes, one Robbery every 1.2 minutes and one Aggravated assaulted every 36.6