Editing Uniform Crime Reports (section)

=== Transition to Oversight by the FBI (1930) ===
The intention of the IACP in developing the UCR program was always to have its management transferred to the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI).<ref name=":1" /> Through IACP lobbying, on June 11, 1930 the [[United States Congress]] passed legislation enacting [[Title 28 of the United States Code|28 U.S.C.]] § 534, which granted the office of the [[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]] the ability to "acquire, collect, classify, and preserve identification, criminal identification, crime, and other records" and the ability to appoint officials to oversee this duty, including the subordinate members of the Bureau of Investigation. The Attorney General, in turn, designated the FBI to serve as the national clearinghouse for the data collected, and the FBI assumed responsibility for managing the UCR Program in September 1930. In the July 1930 issue of the crime report the IACP announced the FBI's takeover of the program. While the IACP discontinued oversight of the program, they continued to advise the FBI on how to better the UCR.

Since 1935, the FBI served as a data clearinghouse, organizing, collecting, and disseminating information voluntarily submitted by local, state, federal and tribal law enforcement agencies. The UCR remained the primary tool for collection and analysis of data for the next half century.