FBI Releases Quarterly Uniform Crime Report Data for January Through June 2023
August 28, 2023
Preliminary Quarterly Uniform Crime Report data for the nation are derived from National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) reports that are voluntarily submitted to the FBI. Figures can change as agencies send updates.
The FBI Quarterly Uniform Crime Report data release for Quarter 2, January – June 2023, was made available on August 28, 2023. This report is based on data received from 13,363 of 18,892 law enforcement agencies in the country.
The Quarter 2 release presents the number of violent and property crime offenses known to law enforcement, for agencies with resident populations of 100,000 or more that also provided data for the previous year. The table can be downloaded in the Resources section of the Quarterly Uniform Crime Report webpage in Crime Data Explorer.
Like most crime data collections within the UCR Program, coverage in the Quarterly Uniform Crime Report is based on the population served by reporting law enforcement agencies. When population coverage thresholds are met, the data represented in the Quarterly Uniform Crime Report may consist of additional downloadable data that show the percent change in offenses known to law enforcement when comparing data for the same time frame of the previous year by population group and by region, respectively.
For the 2023 Quarter 2 release, these data trends by region and aggregate population group are not available due to limited representation by the nation’s most populous cities. When a substantial amount of data is missing – like large volumes of crime data from the nation’s most heavily populated cities – there is a general concern that the data received may not represent what would be experienced if all data were received. National crime trends are especially affected by agencies covering populations of 1,000,000 or more inhabitants. Without a minimum of 60 percent population coverage for these most-in-population cities, the FBI is unable to make confident statements about national crime trends for the 2023 Quarter 2 data release.
