Enterprise police chief urges residents to consult annual report, explains NIBRS changes
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Chief Moore told the council that the FBI's NIBRS system provides more detailed crime reporting than the older UCR system and urged residents to read the department’s annual report; he shared multi-year reported counts and cautioned that national data sets lag and can be misconstrued.
Chief Moore, head of the Enterprise Police Department, told the council the department moved to the FBI’s National Incident‑Based Reporting System (NIBRS) and that the newer system captures more incident detail than the older UCR format.
“NIBRS is national incident based reporting system,” he said, and it collects a broader array of offense types, property-loss details and demographic information about victims and offenders, which can result in apparent increases when compared with older reporting methods.
Moore said the FBI’s public figures currently include two years of the city’s NIBRS submissions (2022 and 2023) and that FBI national outputs are typically about two years behind. He recommended citizens read the Enterprise Police Department’s annual report for an apples-to-apples comparison of recent trends.
The chief read selected city figures to illustrate his point: he reported burglaries at 727 in 2020 and 508 in 2024; murders were two in 2020 and zero in 2024; assaults were 384 in 2020 and 269 in 2024; rape reports moved from 45 in 2020 to 38 in 2024; and robberies were 15 in 2020 and four in 2024. He cautioned that those are reported incidents and do not by themselves indicate conviction counts.
Moore said the department began producing the annual report about three years ago to present the more detailed NIBRS data and invited residents to contact him or view the report on the department’s website for clarifications.