Two federal programs produce major reports on crime. The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports measures crime from reports of law enforcement agencies across the country. The Bureau of Justice Statistics produces the National Crime Victimization Survey - compiling information on reported and unreported crimes against the U.S. population.
Uniform Crime Reports - The program was conceived in 1929 by the International Association of Chiefs of Police to meet the need for reliable uniform crime statistics for the nation. In 1930, the FBI was tasked with collecting, publishing, and archiving those statistics. Four annual publications, Crime in the United States, National Incident-Based Reporting System, Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted, and Hate Crime Statistics are produced from data received from over 18,000 city, university/college, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies voluntarily participating in the program. Information is available on the Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) Program and the Hate Crime Statistics Program, as well as the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS) and the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).
National Crime Victimization Survey - The Survey is the nation's primary source of information on criminal victimization. Each year, data are obtained from a nationally representative sample of about 90,000 households, comprising nearly 160,000 persons, on the frequency, characteristics, and consequences of criminal victimization in the United States. The NCVS collects information on nonfatal personal crimes (rape or sexual assault, robbery, aggravated and simple assault, and personal larceny) and household property crimes (burglary, motor vehicle theft, and other theft) both reported and not reported to police. Survey respondents provide information about themselves (e.g., age, sex, race and Hispanic origin, marital status, education level, and income) and whether they experienced a victimization. For each victimization incident, the NCVS collects information about the offender (e.g., age, race and Hispanic origin, sex, and victim-offender relationship), characteristics of the crime (including time and place of occurrence, use of weapons, nature of injury, and economic consequences), whether the crime was reported to police, reasons the crime was or was not reported, and victim experiences with the criminal justice system.
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data Established in 1978, the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) archives and disseminates data on crime and justice for secondary analysis. The archive contains data from over 2,600 curated studies or statistical data series. NACJD is home to several large-scale and well known datasets, including the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), and the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN).
Crime Rates in America - data available from the Brennan Center fro Justice at the NYU School of Law, whose mission on their web pages is to debunk false narratives about crime rates. the site also presents information on other criminal justice topics
Fatal Force - Washington Post database tracking shootings by police. Data compiled from 2015 to the present. Information on each incident within each year can be seen by clicking on an individual box on the page for each year.
The Guardian - The Counted The U.S. edition of the British newspaper, which has published reports on the use of deadly force by law enforcement in the United States.
Fatal Encounters Site created by a former journalist and journalism instructor which attempts to track all cases of the use of deadly force by law enforcement.
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime -UNODC produces a broad range of both national and international publications on drugs and crime which contain useful statistics.
