The FBI released information on more than 6 million criminal offenses submitted to its new National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) last year. National law enforcement agencies are continuing to transition to the more informative crime reporting system, which will become the national standard for crime reporting in 2021, an FBI release says.
In 2017, 6,998 law enforcement agencies reported data to NIBRS. In an introductory message last year FBI Director Christopher Wray said of NIBRS: “We want to have greater transparency and accountability in policing. One way to get there is by improving the data. That data will give us a more complete picture of what’s really going on in our communities and allow us to do what we need to do to keep people safe.”