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UCR and NCVS Data Comparison

Comparison of UCR and NCVS data for crime statistics

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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...

Jan 9, 2026

What do FBI hate crime and UCR statistics say about black-on-white vs white-on-black homicides in the US?

FBI hate crime reports and the UCR system provide official tallies of bias-motivated incidents and of homicides, but the sources released by the FBI emphasize coverage, definitions and data systems mo...