Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR)

Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) tally monthly offenses reported and arrests made by local law enforcement agencies.

Overview

The majority of agencies in New York State use Uniform Crime Reports (UCR). UCR tallies offenses reported and arrests made by law enforcement each month. It requires that offenses be classified and only the most serious one in each crime incident be counted, or scored. UCR also collects information about property and weapons.

Monthly Forms and Instructions

To facilitate reporting, DCJS has created Microsoft Excel® spreadsheet versions of each of the UCR monthly forms for use by agencies whose records management systems do not generate UCR information. These forms can be downloaded by simply clicking on the Excel links from the list below. This format gives law enforcement agencies the option to save their monthly UCR reports on their own computers, as well as send reports electronically to DCJS as email attachments.  Instructions for filling out the forms have been included as well. 

IJPortal UCR Submission Interface

The UCR Submission Interface, which is hosted on the Integrated Justice Portal (IJPortal), enables summary reporting agencies to submit the following monthly crime reports directly to the state’s crime reporting database:

  • Return A Report
  • Domestic Violence Victim Data
  • Adult Arrest (Arrests of Persons 18 and Older)
  • Juvenile Arrest (Arrests of Persons Under 18)
  • Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA)*
  • Arson Report
  • Supplemental Homicide Report (SHR)
  • Hate Crime*
  • Personnel*

*Both UCR Summary and Incident Based Reporting (IBR) agencies can use the UCR Submission Interface to submit these three reports.

Tally Sheets

Some police departments find it helpful to use UCR Tally Sheets to prepare crime data for monthly UCR reports. These sheets are for internal use only. Please do not send completed tally sheets to DCJS.

Tally Sheets are formatted for legal-size paper.  Unless you specify to your printer that legal-size paper is to be used, most printers will shrink the content of each Tally Sheet to fit on letter-size paper. This will reduce the text on the Tally Sheets enough to make them difficult or impossible to use. Older printers may not be able to print full-size images.  For assistance call or email DCJS as shown below.

Reference Documents

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