National Incident-Based Reporting System Vs NIBRS

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The better of the two systems by far is National Incident-Based Reporting System or NIBRS, and basically, it offers much more detail, and for the state (MD) means collecting more quantifiable data. Under NIBRS, each offense incident is reported instead of using summaries as with Uniform Crime Reporting standards. NIBRS includes many more individual elements about events not covered with UCR. Besides, more crimes are reported in NIBRS and cover 49 'Group A ' offenses (Crime Against Person, Crime Against Property, or Crime Against Society). Also added under NIBRS are 10 Group B offense categories. In addition to NIBRS, the hierarchy rule was dropped, which means offenses are commonly exclusive, but still not thorough, but again not all