UCR Webpage Estimation Statement

For inclusion on the UCR Webpage and in all future editions of Hate Crime Statistics:

The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program statistics are reported voluntarily from more than 18,000 law enforcement agencies nationwide. The method of estimation to account for missing data that the Program has historically followed (based on Part I crimes and population data) is not applied to the unique data collected in the Hate Crime Statistics Program. Therefore, the hate crime statistics published are from the 83 percent of jurisdictions that participated in the Hate Crime Statistics Program. No estimation procedures are applied to account for the 17 percent of jurisdictions that did not participate.

What we are and are not able to do in order to provide data users with an explanation about why we do not estimate hate crime:

The FBI’s UCR Program will add an explanation about why it does not estimate hate crime to its Internet Webpage http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/ directly under the main heading for Hate Crime Statistics. This will be the first information a data user will encounter before choosing to view a Hate Crime Statistics publication.

The Program will also add the explanation to all future editions of Hate Crime Statistics on the following pages:

• “Methodology” page

• “About Hate Crime Statistics” page

• Press Release (that accompanies the annual release of Hate Crime Statistics)

It is not practical or feasible to add this clarification to older editions of Hate Crime Statistics because they exist in an entirely different format than the current edition. Earlier editions of Hate Crime Statistics were created as free-standing HTML publications by a hired contractor, and the templates and artwork needed to add to these publications are no longer available. In addition, even earlier editions of Hate Crime Statistics were widely published as uneditable PDFs or in hardcopy, and there would be no means of adding additional material to those books.