Which system is incident-based?

• A. NIBRS
• B. UCR
• C. Uniform Crime Reporting Program
• D. FBI Incident System

Answer: (A)

Incident-based reporting collects data for each individual crime incident rather than just totals. The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) is built to capture details for every offense within an incident—offense type, weapon used, location, time, and information about victims and offenders—so the data provide a granular view of crime patterns and relationships. The Uniform Crime Reporting Program, by contrast, is a summary-based system that reports counts of offenses in broad categories rather than per-incident details. The term FBI Incident System isn’t the standard designation for how incidents are reported. Because NIBRS is designed to record data for each incident and its offenses, it is the incident-based system.