Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR)

Uniform Crime Reporting Program

The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program serves as the central repository for crime and arrest data in Iowa. Chapter 692.15 of the Code of Iowa requires law enforcement agencies within the state to report crime and arrest data to the Iowa Department of Public Safety’s UCR program, which in turn generates annual statistics. Data is also shared with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for inclusion in national publications, which can be found on the Crime Data Explorer.

Iowa has reported incident-based data since the early 1990s. Incident-based data captures details on each single crime incident - as well as on separate offenses within the same incident - including information on victims, known offenders, relationships between victims and offenders, arrestees, and property involved in crimes. By collecting this information, data is more detailed, and provides a clearer picture of crime that is occurring.

Resources

Crime Data in Iowa Public Portal

Note: Data in the public portal is through December 31 of the previous year. Current data is published yearly in May of the following year.

Iowa Crime Reporting - County Map Percentages (218.28 KB) .pdf