The Broward
County Crime Commission holds significant validity in the compilation of Crime
Statistics. Through this data, the Crime
Commission and law enforcement can focus where its attention needs to be best
utilized.
Compiling crime
statistics is a tiered process that has been thoroughly refined by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation through Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR). The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program was
conceived in 1929 by the International Association of Chiefs of Police to meet
a need for reliable, uniform crime statistics for the nation.
In 1930, the FBI
was tasked with collecting, publishing, and archiving those statistics. Today,
several annual statistical publications, such as the comprehensive Crime in the
United States, are produced from data provided by nearly 17,000 law enforcement
agencies across the United States. Most
of this data can be found on the FBI’s web site:Click here for the FBI website.
Other annual
publications, such as Hate Crime Statistics and Law Enforcement Officers Killed
and Assaulted, address specialized facets of crime. Special studies, reports, and monographs
prepared using data mined from the UCR’s large database are published each year
as well. In addition to these reports, information about the National
Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), answers to general UCR questions, and
answers to specific UCR questions are available on the FBI site: Click here for the FBI website
Below are
several other web sites that provide consistent information about Crime
Statistics anywhere in the county. If
you need to finite a certain area, district, county or municipality, it is
suggested that you contact the local police department’s web site in that area
to attain those statistics.
FBI Crime Stats
National Crime Stats
Crime Reports for Sunrise, FL
Bureau of Justice Statistics
US Crime Statistics
National Crime Mapping
U.S. Census Crime Stats
