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Uniform Crime Report

American  

noun

  1. an annual report issued by the FBI that presents data on selected categories of crimes reported to the police. UCR


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Each month, state and local police departments tally up the crimes they have handled and send the data to the FBI for inclusion in the nation's annual Uniform Crime Report.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2022

The FBI annual Uniform Crime Report shows homicides last year started to rise in the summer and remained at high levels in the following months.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2021

The Uniform Crime Report was begun in 1929 to serve as the nation’s repository of crime data.

From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2021

The FBI’s Uniform Crime Report shows that El Paso’s annual number of reported violent crimes dropped from nearly 5,000 in 1995 to around 2,700 in 2016.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 10, 2019

Crime-related and demographic statistics for 47 US states in 1960 were collected from government agencies, including the FBI's Uniform Crime Report.

From Textbooks ● Sep. 19, 2013

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