WHAT ARE THE PROS AND CONS OF THE UCR AND NIBRS?

NIBRS is a system for reporting crime that is being used by more police agencies every year. UCR is the old method for collected less specific data than NIBRS and the report that comes out yearly with the analyzed data.

Cons to these systems include that both of these systems only collect data on reported crime and that the UCR collection only allows for one crime to be reported per incident. A pro is that that the information is standardized across the US.