Editing Uniform Crime Reports (section)

{{Short description|Federal Bureau of Investigation program in the United States}}
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The '''Uniform Crime Reporting''' ('''UCR''') '''program''' compiles official data on [[crime in the United States]], published by the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI). UCR is "a nationwide, cooperative statistical effort of nearly 18,000 city, university and college, county, state, [[Federally recognized tribes|tribal]], and federal law enforcement agencies voluntarily reporting data on crimes brought to their attention".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/killed/2009/aboutucr.html |title=Summary of the Uniform Crime Reporting Program |website=fbi.gov |date=1987-09-30 |access-date=2012-12-30}}</ref>

Crime statistics are compiled from UCR data and published annually by the FBI in the ''Crime in the United States'' series. The FBI does not collect the data itself. Rather, [[Law enforcement in the United States|law enforcement agencies]] across the United States provide the data to the FBI, which then compiles the Reports.

The Uniform Crime Reporting program began in 1929, and since then has become an important source of crime information for law enforcement, policymakers, scholars, and the media.