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Is The Uniform Crime Reporting System of the FBI Accurate?

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the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) who devised and designed the idea of the UCR in January 1930 (Maltz, 1999). At the time, newspapers were writing about "crime  waves" that were only in the reporters imaginations; the police chiefs decided to have a national reporting program to combat the imaginary crime waves with valid statistics (Maltz, 1999). The  chiefs believed that a uniform national central system that collected and reported accurate data would end public reports of crime waves that did not exist (Maltz, 1999). The IACP subsequently  asked the FBI to take over this uniform reporting system shortly after they established it (Maltz, 1999). At about the same time, some states were also trying to centralize  their crime data for accurate state-wide statistics (Maltz, 1999). It wasnt long before those states were sending regular reports to the FBI (Maltz, 1999). The FBI did develop some uniform  reporting guidelines to allow the agency to handle and analyze the data more easily and more accurately (Maltz, 1999). As of 1999, 44 states were submitting monthly uniform crime data  reports to the UCR (Maltz, 1999). The FBI publishes a report entitled Crime in the United States (CIUS) each year (Maltz, 1999). The CIUS is the report most commonly used  in research and articles addressing crime in this country (Maltz, 1999). The FBI obtains their data from more than 17,000 police agencies in the United States and territories who submit  monthly reports regarding known crimes and arrests made (Maltz, 1999). The UCR is under the Public Support Section, which is a section of the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS)  Division of the FBI (Maltz, 1999). There are eight units within the CJIS, five of which are involved with the CIUS: 1. The Statistical Unit collects, checks and manages the