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San Leandro police outline NIBRS transition; officials warn data will look different, not 'more crime'
Summary
San Leandro police and a consultant briefed the City Council Monday on the city's conversion to the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System, saying the new reporting will produce a broader public dataset but does not itself indicate an increase in crime.
San Leandro police and a consultant briefed the City Council Monday on the department’s transition to the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System, or NIBRS, saying the change will produce a broader public dataset but does not itself mean crime has increased.
Assistant Police Chief Luis Torres and consultant Ed Glaude of Public Reporting, Inc. explained that NIBRS requires agencies to submit many more offense categories and that, unlike the older Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) method, NIBRS can count multiple offenses from a single incident instead of only the most serious one.
“Under NIBRS, if you have an incident involving two, three or four different offenses…all of those offenses are going to get counted,” Ed Glaude said. “It looks like a bigger volume of crime, but it’s not an increase in the actual rate.”
Why the change matters
Officials said NIBRS…
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