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Crime reporting variability

Crime reporting varies by agency and methodological choices, affecting rankings and comparisons.

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Jan 13, 2026

How do National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) and FBI UCR differ in counting offenders by race?

The NCVS and the FBI’s UCR arrive at offender-race counts from fundamentally different starting points: the NCVS asks victims in a representative household survey to describe the offender they experie...

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