Port Hueneme—The Port Hueneme Police Department previously utilized the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) System, which has been the data collection method for law enforcement agencies across the country for many decades.
IN 2024, law enforcement agencies transitioned to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). For the 2025 report, we will now be in our second year of reporting under NIBRS which allows us to better compare the crime data between the first year of NIBRS reporting in 2024 and the second year of NIBRS reporting in 2025.
As the new national data collection standard, NIBRS captures details on victims, known offenders, relationships between victims and offenders, arrestees, property, and drugs involved in crimes. This has become a shift in the way police agencies have reported crime in the past. We are changing how information on victimization and offending is collected and reported in order to meet federal data standards, improve operations, and better inform the public about the nature of crime. NIBRS collects information on nearly every major criminal justice issue facing law enforcement, including weapons offenses, drug offenses and drug involvement in all offenses, gangs, domestic violence, child and elder abuse, hate crimes, white-collar crimes, and terrorism. The…
