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3 Data from Law Enforcement Agencies
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POLICE REPORTS Basic Reports Local law enforcement officers compile basic information related to incidents of crimes, arrests, and investigations in a police incident report, referred to simply as the police report. Each jurisdiction and law enforcement organization uses its own format for its police report and has varying instructions on what is to be collected, and when and how it should be completed.
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Not every "call for service" that an officer attends will result in an official police incident report. In addition to the specific reporting guidelines from the law enforcement agency, individual officers have some discretion in deciding whether to fill out a report.
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4) : the data are generated from the National Crime Victimization Survey.
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. Police Responses to Reports In September 2010, the Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing titled Rape in the United States: The Chronic Failure to Report and Investigate Rape Cases.1 As summarized by one of the witnesses in prepared testimony, witnesses were asked to comment on three factors related to police handling of reported rape crimes that might contribute to an undercount in statistics from law enforcement agencies: police not accepting rape and other sex crimes for 1 The hearing occurred on September 14, 2010, and its report was published in 2011 as S.Hrg.
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: "[M] ore than half the time New Orleans police receive reports of rape or other sexual assaults against women, officers classify the matter as a noncriminal ‘complaint.'" UCR statistics for New Orleans for rape and attempted rape showed a sharp decrease from 2007 to 2008, in contrast with data from the Interim Louisiana State University Public Hospital, where rape victims seeking treatment increased during that same period.
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The FBI produces simple aggregations of these monthly reports from jurisdictions, and uses this compiled information to issue several annual statistical publications, with Crime in the United States most relevant to this project. Because crime statutes related to rape and sexual assault vary across jurisdiction, the FBI attempts to provide uniformity in what is reported by these jurisdictions and how incidents are classified in that reporting through a guidance handbook, the Uniform Crime Reporting Handbook (Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2004)
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Law enforcement agencies submit a monthly summary of crimes for the SRS component of the UCR. The primary reporting form,8 Return A -- Monthly Return of Offenses Known to the Police, lists seven major (Part I)
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1110-0001 comprehensive, and accurate data. Please submit this form monthly, by the seventh day after the close of the month, and any questions to the FBI, Expires 07-31-16 Criminal Justice Information Services Division, Attention: Uniform Crime Reports/Module E-3, 1000 Custer Hollow Road, Clarksburg, West Virginia 26306; telephone 304-625-4830, facsimile 304-625-3566.
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Totals for the Return A can then be taken directly from the Tally book. These Tally books can be obtained by corresponding with the FBI, Criminal Justice Information Services Division, Attention: Uniform Crime Reports/Module E-3, 1000 Custer Hollow Road, Clarksburg, West Virginia 26306; telephone 304-625-4830, facsimile 304-625-3566.
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The new definition is a substantial change from the older definition: it recognizes that males as well as females may be rape victims; it includes penetration in the anus and mouth as well as in the vagina; and it in 10 Hierarchy List of Part I crimes, in descending order: criminal homicide, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft (except motor vehicles) , motor vehicle theft, and arson.
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, TABLE 3-2 Counts of Forcible Rapes and Attempted Forcible Rapes, Uniform Crime Reports Summary Reporting System Forcible Rapes and Rate per Year Population Attempted Rapes 1,000 People 1992 255,029,699 109,062 0.428 1993 257,782,608 106,014 0.411 1994 260,327,021 102,216 0.393 1995 262,803,276 97,470 0.371 1996 265,228,572 96,252 0.363 1997 267,783,607 96,153 0.359 1998 270,248,003 93,144 0.345 1999 272,690,813 89,411 0.328 2000 281,421,906 90,178 0.320 2001 285,317,559 90,863 0.318 2002 287,973,924 95,235 0.331 2003 290,788,976 93,883 0.323 2004 293,656,842 95,089 0.324 2005 296,507,061 94,347 0.318 2006 299,398,484 94,472 0.316 2007 301,621,157 92,160 0.306 2008 304,059,724 90,750 0.298 2009 307,006,550 89,241 0.291 2010 309,330,219 85,593 0.277 2011 311,591,917 83,425 0.268 NOTE: Population numbers are U.S. Census Bureau provisional estimates as of July 1 for each year except 2000 and 2010, which are decennial census counts.
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Other types of sexual assault are not included in these numbers. The UCR SRS documentation is fairly clear in how these statistics are tabulated based on the reports submitted to the FBI from various law enforcement agencies.
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FBI personnel generate monthly reports for those agencies from NIBRS for the SRS. Because of the relatively few agencies that report through NIBRS, it cannot be used for meaningful national-level crime statistics.11 Consequently, the panel did not use data from NIBRS in this report.
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