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LEARCAT Methodology

LEARCAT User Guide and Methodology

About LEARCAT

The Law Enforcement Agency Reported Crime Analysis Tool (LEARCAT) dashboard enables you to examine crime information reported by participating law enforcement agencies to the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). As of January 1, 2021, the FBI transitioned to NIBRS as the nation’s official law enforcement crime reporting standard. NIBRS collects details on crime incidents including the number...

FY 2023 Access to Justice Design and Testing Program

Closing Date
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Justice Programs (OJP) Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) seeks a vendor to support research and testing activities related to development of a new data collection that will measure access to justice for civil legal needs. As the Department's principal federal statistical agency, BJS is responsible for the collection, analysis, publication, and dissemination of statistics on crime, criminal offenders...

NIBRS Estimation Project

Beginning with the 2021 data year, estimates of crime known to law enforcement will be based solely on data provided to the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System, or NIBRS. In 2021, 67.9% of all crime-reporting law enforcement agencies were reporting to NIBRS, covering 65.7% of the U.S. population.

NIBRS Coverage, 2017 to 2021

To calculate a national crime rate based on NIBRS data, BJS, in partnership with the FBI and...

State Justice Statistics Program of Statistical Analysis Centers, 2021

Closing Date
This solicitation describes the guidelines and requirements of the fiscal year (FY) 2021 State Justice Statistics (SJS) Program for Statistical Analysis Centers (SACs). Since 1972, BJS and its predecessor agency, the National Criminal Justice Information and Statistics Service, have provided funding to state and territorial governments to establish and operate SACs to collect, analyze, and report statistics on crime and justice to federal, state, and...