National UCR Program
Over time, modifications to the original National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) collection were necessary to ensure accurate capture of additional information to include:
- 1920's – After recognizing a need for national crime statistics, the IACP formed the Committee on Uniform Crime Records to develop a system of uniform crime statistics.
- 1929 - After studying state criminal codes and making an evaluation of the recordkeeping practices in use, the committee completed a plan for crime reporting that became the foundation of the national UCR Program.
- 1979 - By congressional mandate, arson was added as a Part I offense category for Summary Reporting System (SRS).
- 1989 - The FBI began accepting NIBRS data from an initial group of agencies across the nation.
- NIBRS data has been expanded over time:
- Hate bias-motivated offenses (1990);
- The presence of gang activity (1997);
- Law enforcement officers killed and assaulted (2003);
- Cargo theft indicator (2005);
- New codes to further specify location types and property types (2010);
- Human trafficking – commercial sex acts and involuntary servitude offenses (2013)
- Offender ethnicity (2013)
- Animal cruelty (2016)
- Identity theft and hacking/computer invasion (2016)
- Cyberspace – added as a location type (2016)
- 2015 – On December 2, 2015, the Criminal Justice Information Services Division’s Advisory Policy Board approved the recommendation to sunset the traditional SRS and replace it with NIBRS by January 1, 2021
State of Texas UCR Program
- January 1, 1976 - The State of Texas adopted the Uniform Crime Report as its official statewide crime report. The Department of Public Safety accepted the responsibility to collect, validate and tabulate UCR reports from all reporting jurisdictions in Texas.
- 1998 - The State of Texas became FBI certified as a state to contribute NIBRS data.
- September 1, 2015 - House Bill 11 which required the Department to implement a goal for Texas law enforcement agencies to transition, as a whole, to NIBRS as the standard reporting methodology to the national UCR program by September 1, 2019.
- September 2018 – Texas has received commitment from approximately 550 agencies to transition by the Texas goal of September 1, 2019, and a total of approximately 900 agencies committed to transition by January 1, 2021.
- January 1, 2021 – In line with the federal program, Texas fully transitions to NIBRS data submissions for all participating agencies.
- April 2023 – The Department adds functionality to the UCR portal for XML submissions and manual entry.
- September 1, 2023 - House Bill 4879 takes effect mandating all Texas criminal justice agencies to implement a NIBRS compliant RMS and to submit NIBRS data to the Department for the UCR Program. For more information, see the MANDATED NIBRS REPORTING for HB 4879.