There are many strength of the NIBRS, many of which outnumber the weaknesses. An important strength is its wide range of crimes it 's able to collect, ranging from terrorism, hate crimes, and abuse of the elderly. This allows for for information to be collected. which in itself makes it a better system then the Summary reporting system. Other strengths include its availability to more people with its higher amount of information, more reliable data, and how it allows agencies to work together for similar cases. If the traditional Summary system was used, it would be more difficult to tell if cases were similar without the reliable data found in NIBRS. Although there is a few, there are weaknesses to the NIBRS system. One is the tedious requirements