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Police department seeks $5.3M DOJ grant to upgrade crime reporting to NIBRS
Summary
SFPD asked committee approval to accept a roughly $5.3 million DOJ Bureau of Justice Statistics grant to implement NIBRS, a more detailed federal incident reporting system required by December 2020; the committee approved and will forward the acceptance to the full Board.
The Budget & Finance Committee unanimously advanced a resolution authorizing the Police Department to accept and expend approximately $5.3 million from the U.S. Department of Justice to transition to the National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS).
Catherine McGuire, executive director of SFPD's Strategic Management Bureau, summarized the change: the FBI will retire the legacy Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) summary system and requires NIBRS compliance by Jan. 1, 2021 (McGuire cited December 2020 as the mandate). She said NIBRS reports incident‑level data, permits multiple offenses and victim counts per incident, and provides richer sub‑category data that better supports analysis of hate crimes, aggravated assaults and other incident characteristics.
McGuire said the grant will pay for planning, consultants and system improvements and stressed the advantage of using non‑general‑fund dollars for an otherwise mandated upgrade: "This will also allow the department to have best practices and data collection and automation for crime data and will also give the department a better ability to address crime and serve all communities." With no public comment, the chair moved the resolution with a positive recommendation to the full Board; committee action was unanimous.
What's next: If the Board approves the grant acceptance, SFPD will begin planning, hire consultants and implement the NIBRS project ahead of the federal compliance deadline.
