How does the Uniform Crime Report (UCR) compare and contrast with the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)? What changes would you suggest to...

This is a
great question, as we often hear these different terms in the news. Let's start by defining what
each is.

The Uniform Crime Report is overseen by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) and is comprised of data from nearly 20,000 city, federal, county, and state
law enforcement agencies, according to the FBI website. Note here that the UCR then is made up
of crime data from law enforcement agencies.

The National Crime Victimization
Survey relies on data collected from households, as the name implies. It is overseen by the
Bureau of Justice Statistics.

With any data collection, it is going to be
impossible to collect data on every single crime committed. There are a few ways we could make
the data more reliable. First, while nearly 20,000 agencies is not comprehensive, it is still a
large amount of data. We can take the data from the UCR and compare it to the National Crime
Victimization Survey to judge the accuracy of both.

Second, both reports
could benefit by trying to be...

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